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Dr. Daniela Brückner

Source: Land NRW / Ralph Sondermann

Dr Daniela Brückner, Deputy Minister

of the Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Introducing the Deputy Minister for Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Dr Daniela Brückner
born 29 December 1963 in Wesel, NRW

Education

1983
Abitur university entrance graduation, Schriesheim, Baden-Württemberg

1983 – 1989
Studied law at the University of Mannheim, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg

1989
First of two mandatory 'state exams', Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg

1989 – 1992
Referendariat pupillage at Mannheim Regional Court

1990
Licenciado en Derecho, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, (Spanien)

1992
Second State Law Exam, Stuttgart

1992 – 1994
Doctorate from the University of Heidelberg, with a comparative-law thesis on two remedies for the protection of constitutional rights, the Spanish recurso de amparo and the German Verfassungsbeschwerde’

Career

1994
Joined the judiciary of the City State of Berlin; served as judge at Berlin Regional Court as well as Köpenick, Tiergarten and Charlottenburg Local Courts

2010 – 2011
Selection process for service at the High Court of Berlin
2011 – 2013
Research assistant at Berlin Supreme Court

2013 – 2018
In charge of the bankruptcy division of Charlottenburg Local Court

2014 – 2016
In-service training, 'economy of judicial processes'

2019
Deputy chief judge at Lichtenberg Local Court

2019 - 2021
Deputy Secretary for Justice at the Berlin Government’s Justice, Consumer Affairs and Anti-discrimination Directorate

2021 - 2022
Deputy Secretary for Justice at the Berlin Government’s Justice, Diversity and Anti-discrimination Directorate

Since 30 June 2022
Deputy Minister of Justice

Unpaid/Memberships
  • Founding member of the Martin-Niemöller-Haus Berlin-Dahlem place of remembrance
  • Supporters’ association, Hanns Eisler College of Music
  • FIAN Germany
  • German Federation of Women Lawyers
  • Neue Richtervereinigung (association of judicial officers dedicated to a progressive vision of justice)
  • National working group of German bankruptcy courts
  • Member of the Green Party (Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN)
  • Member of the green-leaning lawyers’ federation, RechtGrün