Prof. Dr. Siegfried Broß is a
judge in the Second
Senat of the German
Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court). He was born on 18 July 1946 in
Stuttgart, and passed the state
bar examinations in 1970 and 1973. He went on to work at the
Faculty of Laws of the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of
Munich from 1971 - 1976, where he worked at the
Institute for
Church Law and
History of Church Law. He received his
doctorate in law after writing a
dissertation on
medieval appellate procedure.
His
judicial career began in 1973, when he became a judge at the Munich
Administrative Court. After his brief stint as an
administrative judge, he moved into
municipal administration in
Mühldorf am Inn (1975-76). This was followed by two years as a
research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court. From here, he moved back to
academia, teaching in
Speyer from 1977-84. In 1980, he added to his plate, joining the staff of the legal department of the
Bavarian State
Chancellery (
Staatskanzlei). A year later he was appointed to the Bavarian Supreme Administrative Court (
Verwaltungsgerichtshof). In 1986, he was promoted to the Federal Court of Justice (
Bundesgerichtshof), the highest court of
general jurisdiction in Germany. He served there until his
promotion to the Federal Constitutional Court in 1998. He was made an honorary professor at the
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 2002.