Dr. Reinhard Gaier

- Born in Lampertheim/Hesse in 1954
- Married, two children

1980

First State Examination in Law (Mannheim)

1982

Second State Examination in Law (Wiesbaden)

1998

Dr. jur. (Dresden)
Subject of the doctoral thesis: Urteilstatbestand und Mündlichkeitsprinzip – Zum Zusammenhang der Beurkundungsfunktion des Urteilstatbestandes mit den Bestimmungen der ZPO über die Mündlichkeit des Verfahrens (The statement of facts in a judgment and the principle of orality – On the connection between the recording function of the statement of facts in a judgment and the provisions of the German Code of Civil Procedure on the orality of proceedings)

1983-85

Judge in the Regional Court district of Darmstadt

1986-93

Judge at the Darmstadt Regional Court (Landgericht)

1992-93

Temporarily transferred to the Frankfurt/Main Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht)

1993-00

Judge at the Frankfurt/Main Higher Regional Court

2000-04

Judge at the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof)

since November 2004

Justice at the Federal Constitutional Court (First Senate)