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Prof. Dr. Heinrich Amadeus Wolff
Justice of the First Senate
Born in Heidelberg in June 1965
Married, five grown-up children, several grandchildren
| 1972-1985 | Attended school in Heidelberg and Darmstadt |
| 1985-1991 | Studied law at the universities of Regensburg, Tübingen, Bonn, Freiburg and Heidelberg |
| 1990-1993 | Research assistant at the Institute for German and European Administrative Law (first as a general assistant both prior to and after qualifying in law, then as a part-time research assistant) |
| 1991 | First State Examination in Law (Heidelberg) |
| 1991-1993 | Legal traineeship |
| 1994 | Second State Examination in Law (Stuttgart) |
| 1994 | Judicial clerk at the Federal Constitutional Court, Karlsruhe |
| 1994-1998 | Research assistant and senior research assistant at the German University of Administrative Sciences (Speyer) |
| 1996 | Dr. rer. publ., German University of Administrative Sciences (Speyer); Doctoral thesis: “Selbstbelastung und Verfahrenstrennung” (“Self-incrimination and Separation of Proceedings”) |
| 1998 | Habilitation in the field of constitutional and administrative law at the German University of Administrative Sciences (Speyer); Professorial thesis: “Ungeschriebenes Verfassungsrecht unter dem Grundgesetz” (“Unwritten Constitutional Law Under the Basic Law”) |
| 1998-2000 | Policy officer at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Bonn/Berlin |
| 2000-2006 | Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich): Chair in Constitutional and Administrative Law |
| 2006-2014 | Professor at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder): Chair in Public Law (with a focus on constitutional law) |
| 2012-2013 | Visiting professor at the Law School and academic research at the IIIS, Trinity College (Dublin) |
| 2013 | Member of the Federal Government Commission on the revision of security laws (with Matthias Bäcker, Burkhard Hirsch, et al.) |
| since 2014 | Professor at the University of Bayreuth: Chair in Public Law and Law Relating to the Environment, Technology and Information |
| since June 2022 | Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court |