Günter Hirsch (born 30 January 1943) is a German legal scholar who served as the seventh President of the Federal Court of Justice of Germany from 2000 to 2008.
During this period, he also worked as a research assistant for the chair of criminal law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
In 1973, Hirsch started working in the Bavarian judicial service,[1] first as a public prosecutor from 1975 to 1976, then from 1976 until 1980 as a judge at an Amtsgericht (local district court).
After attending a 15-month course on administrative management at the state chancellery of Bavaria, he became a presiding judge at a Landgericht (regional court), serving from 1982 to 1984.
Hirsch is an honorary professor for European and medical law at the Saarland University.