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Dr. Ulrich Maidowski

Portrait of Dr. Ulrich Maidowski

Justice of the Second Senate

Born in Walsrode (Fallingbostel district) in 1958

Married, four children

1964-1977Attended school in Tokyo (Japan), Wolfsburg (Germany), Kabul (Afghanistan), and Hanover (Germany)
1977-1978Military service and recognition as a conscientious objector
1978-1985Studied law in Tübingen and Aix-en-Provence/Marseille
1985First State Examination in Law
1987-1987Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Graf von Pestalozza, Institute for Constitutional Law, Freie Universität (Berlin)
1989Dr. iur., Eberhard Karl University (Tübingen);
Doctoral thesis: Umgekehrte Diskriminierung. Quotenregelungen zur Frauenförderung im öffentlichen Dienst und in den politischen Parteien” (“Reverse Discrimination: Quota Systems for the Advancement of Women in the Public Sector and in Political Parties”)
1987-1990Legal traineeship at the Berlin Higher Regional Court (Kammergericht)
1990Second State Examination in Law
1990-1999Judge at the Aachen Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgericht)
1995-1997Seconded to the Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) as a judicial clerk
1999-2009Judge at the Higher Administrative Court (Oberverwaltungsgericht) for the Land North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster
2004-2009Seconded to the Hamm Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht), division with jurisdiction over building-land matters
2009-2014Judge at the Federal Administrative Court
since July 2014Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court