Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt

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Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt
Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
In office
11 January 1999 – 2 February 2011

Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt (born 30 April 1950) is a

Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
from 1999 until 2011.

Biography

After being a lecturer for Labour at the

Frankfurt am Main
. She earned her doctorate there in 1979.

From 1981 to 1984 she was a judge at the Sozialgerichten ("Social Courts") in

Hessen
. In 1984 she was appointed Director of the Wiesbaden Sozialgerichten and remained in that position until 1989. From 1988 to 1989 she was also a substitute member of the Hessen State Constitutional Court, Staatsgerichtshof des Landes Hessen.

From 1989 to 1991 she was a Dezernentin der Stadt (roughly, "City Councillor") of Frankfurt am Main under

Minister-President Hans Eichel
. From 1995 to 1999 she served as State Minister of Science and Arts.

Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, 1999–2011

From January 1999 to January 2011, Hohmann-Dennhardt served as judge on the First Senate of the

recognition of same-sex unions in Germany and the Transsexuals Act (TSG). When Evelyn Haas
left the Bundesverfassungsgericht in 2006, Hohmann-Dennhardt was the only woman on the First Senate.

In January 2011, Hohmann-Dennhardt was succeeded by judge Gabriele Britz.

Member of the Board at Daimler, 2011–2015

In 2011,

Daimler AG's management board, asked Hohmann-Dennhardt to take charge of the company's compliance program. Daimler created her role at the company after hiring Louis Freeh, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as an independent monitor, a post mandated by its settlement with U.S. regulators on foreign-bribery investigations.[1]

Hohmann-Dennhardt set about discussing ethics with many of the company's 275,000 or so employees in town-hall style meetings. She also introduced and oversaw controls designed to help identify incidents of suspected bribery.[2]

In 2013, Hohmann-Dennhardt’s contract was extended by another three years.[2]

Member of the Board at Volkswagen, 2016–2017

In October 2015, Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen named Hohmann-Dennhardt to the newly created post of board member for integrity and legal affairs;[3] she was the first woman to join Volkswagen’s board.[4]

In January 2017, it was announced that Hohmann-Dennhardt would be leaving her job barely a year after joining the company,[4] due to differences in the understanding of responsibilities and future operating structures within the function she led.[5] Hiltrud Werner was named as her successor.[5]

Other activities

Corporate boards

Non-profits

References

  1. ^ Rachel Louise Ensign (January 15, 2014), At Daimler, a Former German High-Court Judge Leads Compliance Program The Wall Street Journal.
  2. ^ a b Rachel Louise Ensign (January 15, 2014), At Daimler, a Former German High-Court Judge Leads Compliance Program The Wall Street Journal.
  3. ^ Georgina Prodhan and Arno Schuetze (October 16, 2016), VW names Daimler compliance manager to help tackle scandal Reuters.
  4. ^ a b Prashant S. Rao (January 26, 2017), VW Executive, Hired to Help Overhaul Carmaker’s Culture, Is to Leave The New York Times.
  5. ^ a b Dr. Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt to leave the Volkswagen Group Board of Management by mutual agreement – Hiltrud Werner appointed as successor Archived 2017-02-12 at the Wayback Machine Volkswagen, press release of January 26, 2017.
  6. ^ Members of the Supervisory Board Archived 2017-04-25 at the Wayback Machine Messe Frankfurt.
  7. ^ Klaus Ott (October 9, 2020), Abgasaffäre: Aufklärung unerwünscht Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  8. ^ Leadership Amadeu Antonio Foundation.
  9. ^ Board of Trustees Ernst Reuter Foundation for Advanced Study.
  10. ^ International Willy Brandt Prize Social Democratic Party of Germany.
  11. Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law
    .

External links

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