Karin Grasshof or Karin Graßhof (born 25 June 1937 in

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland ...

) is a German jurist. She served as a justice of the

Federal Constitutional Court The Federal Constitutional Court (german: link=no, Bundesverfassungsgericht ; abbreviated: ) is the supreme constitutional court for the Federal Republic of Germany, established by the constitution or Basic Law () of Germany. Since its in ...

of Germany from 1986 to 1998. She is currently an honorary professor at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

. As a judge, she was involved in the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of September 14, 1989, on the use of the diary of a prisoner; the decision on the five-percent hurdle in the first all-German election; the decision on the right of foreigners to vote in Schleswig-Holstein; the decision on Section 218 of May 28, 1993; the Maastricht ruling of October 12, 1993; the AWACS decision of July 12, 1994; the decision on the criminal liability of GDR foreign espionage of May 15, 1995; the decision on the Mauerschützenprozesse of October 26, 1996; the decisions on the admissibility of overhang mandates of April 10, 1997 and February 26, 1998; and the decision on the introduction of the euro of March 31, 1998.

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