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Thomas Offenloch
Justice of the Second Senate
Born in Konstanz in 1972
married, six children
| 1979-1992 | Attended school in Schwäbisch Gmünd |
| 1992 | Graduated from Parler Gymnasium in Schwäbisch Gmünd (Abitur) |
| 1992-1996 | Studied law at the University of Konstanz |
| 1996 | First State Examination in Law |
| 1996-1998 | Legal traineeship at Konstanz Regional Court district, in Schwäbisch Gmünd and in Frankfurt (Main) Temporary secondary employment at the Chair in Civil Law, Commercial Law, Tax Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law held by Prof. Dr. Dr. Carsten Thomas Ebenroth (University of Konstanz) |
| 1998 | Second State Examination in Law |
| 1998-1999 | Judge at the Heilbronn Local Court (Amtsgericht), criminal court judge and investigating judge |
| 1999-2000 | Public prosecutor at the Heilbronn Public Prosecution Office (Department of Fraud and Commercial Offences) |
| 2000-2001 | Judge at the Schwäbisch Hall Local Court (criminal court judge, juvenile court judge, investigating judge and guardianship judge) |
| 2001-2004 | Various positions within the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Justice (Central Office; Private Secretary to the Minister; Policy officer for matters concerning the Bundesrat, the Council of Ministers, the Landtag and the Justice Ministers’ Conference; later also deputy head of the Central Office) |
| 2004-2006 | Judge at the Baden-Baden Regional Court (Landgericht), civil division, temporarily also grand criminal division, including division for particularly serious offences (Schwurgericht) |
| 2007-2009 | Judicial clerk at the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), Third Civil Division, Notary Division and Presidium |
| 2009-2010 | Seconded to the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht), civil division |
| 2010-2013 | Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Justice (deputy head of the Department for Public and Civil Law and head of a unit for civil law, data protection law and oversight of notaries), appointed to the rank of Higher Regional Court judge (2010) and promoted to Leitender Ministerialrat (2011) |
| 2013-2023 | Judge at the Federal Court of Justice (Fourth Civil Division and Notary Division; temporarily also judicial stand-by duty, judge in charge of building matters) |
| since January 2023 | Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court |