Andreas Voßkuhle

Andreas Voßkuhle (born 21 December 1963) is a German legal scholar who served as the president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 2010 until 2020.

Voßkuhle was born and grew up in the small Western German city of Detmold, where his father was a lawyer specializing in administrative law.

Before he completed the second Staatsexamen in 1993 he wrote his doctoral thesis (German title Rechtsschutz gegen den Richter [Legal protection against the judge]) under supervision of Peter Lerche.

He was the second choice of the SPD, after their initial candidate, Horst Dreier, was rejected by the CDU because of his position regarding stem cell research and torture.

[3][4] Since 2022, following an appointment by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Voßkuhle has been serving on a three-member panel (alongside Norbert Lammert and Krista Sager) to assess potential conflicts of interest, requiring senior German officials from the chancellor to deputy ministers to observe a cooling-off period if they want to quit the government for a job in business.