Wilhelm Schluckebier

- Born in Diemelsee (Waldeck-Frankenberg district)
- Married, two grown-up children

1969-1971

Military service (18 months)

1971–75

Studied law at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen

1975

First State Examination in Law

1975–78

Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Gunter Kisker at the Justus Liebig University Gießen (Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law)

1978

Second State Examination in Law

1978–81

Judge (Regional Court (Landgericht) of Gießen, Local Court (Amtsgericht) of Friedberg)

1981–83

Temporarily transferred to the Federal Public Prosecutor General’s Office in Berlin at the 5th Criminal Division of the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) – Department for criminal proceedings on appeal in points of law

1983–87

Temporarily transferred to the Federal Constitutional Court as a research assistant (departments of Federal Constitutional Court Justices Walter Rudi Wand and Ernst Träger in the Second Senate)

1987–88

Judge at the Regional Court of Gießen

1988–89

Temporarily transferred to the Federal Chancellery (Law and Administration Department)

1989

Judge at the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) of Frankfurt/Main

1990–95

Senior Public Prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice
Conducted preliminary investigation proceedings; counsel for the prosecution on behalf of the Federal Public Prosecutor General

1995–99

Federal Public Prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice
Head of the Federal Public Prosecutor General’s Proceedings and Legal Department – at the same time, Federal Public Prosecutor General’s officer in charge of the Federal Central Criminal Register

1999–2006

Judge at the Federal Court of Justice
(since 2004: Presidential Judge of the Federal Court of Justice)

since October 2006

Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (First Senate)