Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Kirchhof

- Born in Osnabrück in 1950
- Married

1969-71

Military service

1975

First State Examination in Law

1978

Second State Examination in Law

1981

Dr. iur. (Heidelberg)
Doctoral thesis: Die Höhe der Gebühr - Grundlagen der Gebührenbemessung (The amount of a fee - an outline of fee assessment)

1985

Habilitation (Speyer)
Subject of the thesis: Private Rechtsetzung (Law-making by private bodies)

1982-86

Teaching assignments at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Munich, Speyer, and Tübingen

since 1986

Holder of the Chair for Public Law, Law of Public Finance and Fiscal Law at the University of Tübingen

1989-90

since 1993

Holder of the European Union's Jean-Monnet-Chair for European Fiscal Law

1999-2001

Vicerector of the University of Tübingen

2003-04

Elected expert member of the Commission on the Reform of the Federal System of Government (Federalism Commission) established by the Bundestag and the Bundesrat

2003-07

Judge at the Constitutional Court (Staatsgerichtshof) of the Land (state) Baden-Württemberg

2006-07

Member of the Board of the Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer (Association of German University Teachers of Constitutional Law)

2006-09

Lecturer at the Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) s, since 2007 as a professeur invité

since October 2007

Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (First Senate)

since March 2010

Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court, Chairperson of the First Senate