Prof. Herbert Landau

- Born in Wilgersdorf/Siegen in 1948

until 1970

School education and vocational training, military service

1970–73

Studied social work at the Evangelische Fachhochschule Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe in Bochum

1974

Post-graduate practical training year

1974–79

Studied law at the Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen

1979

First State Examination in Law

1979–82

Research assistant of Prof. Dr. Alfred Söllner, Chair of Roman Law, Civil Law and Labour Law

1982

Second State Examination in Law

1982

Judge
Wiesbaden Regional Court (Landgericht); Dillenburg Local Court (Amtsgericht)

1 June 1985

Appointed as tenured judge

1985

Temporarily transferred to the Federal Ministry of Justice, Department III, Commercial law and business law

1986

Temporarily transferred from the Federal Ministry of Justice to the administration of the Bundestag; secretary of committee chairman in the committee of inquiry concerning the Neue Heimat (a trade union-owned housing enterprise)

1987

Judge in civil and criminal matters at the Dillenburg Local Court

1987–91

Temporarily transferred to the Ministry of Justice of the Land (state) Hesse: Personal Secretary to the Minister

1988

Appointed judge at the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht), leadership seminar at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer

1 January 1991

Appointed Chief Public Prosecutor

1991-96

Chief Public Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Limburg/Lahn Regional Court

6 December 1996

Appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof)

1996-2005

Judge at the Federal Court of Justice, investigation judge and associate judge in the First Criminal Senate; on leave of absence during the 15th and 16th legislative term of the Hesse Landtag (state parliament)

1999–2005

State Secretary at the Hesse Ministry of Justice

since 1 October 2005

Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (Second Senate)

2006

Honorary professor at the Philipps-Universität Marburg