Stephan Harbarth

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Full Name	Stephan Harbarth
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Dec 19, 1971(1971-12-19)
Age	53
Country	Germany
Birth City	Heidelberg
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Stephan Harbarth Biography

Stephan Harbarth is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on December 19, 1971 in Heidelberg, Germany. Stephan Harbarth (born 19 December 1971 in Heidelberg) is the Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Bundesverfassungsgericht), former German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 2009 until 2018 , he was a member of the Bundestag. On November 22, 2018, his election as a member of the Federal Constitutional Court by the Bundestag. He succeeds Ferdinand Kirchhof and serves in the court’s first senatorial chamber. On the 23rd of November the day following his appointment into the Court, he was appointed as Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court by the Bundesrat. In this role Harbarth serves as head of the first senatorial session. On May 15, 2020 Harbarth became President of the Federal Constitutional Court. Harbarth will take office following being appointed informally from the president of Germany.

Since 2016to 2016, Harbarth was the vice-chairman of the CDU/CSU the parliamentary group under the direction of previous chairs Volker Kauder (2016-2018) and Ralph Brinkhaus (2018). In this role Harbarth was responsible for the legislative efforts of the group in the areas of domestic affairs, consumer protection sports, minorities, and domestic affairs. He was also an active member of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs. When negotiations were underway to create an alliance government headed by the Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, he was a member in his CDU delegation.

In an interview with the Augsburger Allgemeine, Harbarth rejected the accusation of bias. In Spiegel, Harbarth had already said in January 2019 that one “could not ‘wish for a lawyer to be elected to the Federal Constitutional Court’ and then ‘consider it fundamentally problematic that this lawyer also had clients'”.

In 2019, two members of the German Parliament filed an action for a declaratory judgment with the Federal Constitutional Court, seeking a declaratory judgment that the election and appointment of Harbarth as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court was null and void:BVerfG, decision of 2 July 2019 – 2 BvE 4/19. . The core of the applicants’ argumentation was, according to the summary of the Federal Constitutional Court in the reasons for its decision: “Irrespective of this, there is a deliberate violation of the provision of § 44a of the AbgG that is laid down by simple statute, because the respondent in the second place did not disclose that the Vice- President of the Federal Constitutional Court, in his time as a Member of Parliament, had received substantial, probably overwhelming, property allocations from third, unsettled sources. In view of numerous unclarified detailed questions regarding the income of the Member of Parliament from his former activity as a lawyer, during which he had also been a member of the board of directors and managing director of the law firm, there was a presumption of an inadmissible conflict of interest that was incompatible with the free mandate of a Member of Parliament. He had therefore disregarded Paragraphs 44a and 44b of the AbgG; at the same time, the information which he had provided in an obviously concealing manner had not been verified by the respondent in the second place and had therefore been deliberately mispublished. According to the complainant, this infringed Article 38.1 sentence 2 of the Basic Law, which guarantees a comprehensive right of the Members of Parliament to ask questions, to be informed and to receive information. The untruthful information and the deficiencies in disclosure also led to a violation of Article 97.1 of the Basic Law and the principle of democracy. Since the election, the determination of the election result and the appointment were infected by it, all measures were null and void. (Decision of 2 July 2019 – 2 BvE 4/19, margin no. 10). In the reporting of the legal specialist press, the dismissal of the accusations was received positively, since the accusations were “obviously speculative and made in the open without any external cause” .

Harbarth was elected to the German Bundestag during the German Bundestag elections in 2009. The first time he was a member, he was as a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and its Subcommittee on European Law. From 2014 to 2016, he headed the work of his parliamentary group within the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection. In this period in the Committee, he was also the group’s rapporteur for the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG).

Stephan Harbarth Net Worth

Stephan Harbarth is one of the richest Politician from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stephan Harbarth 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

From 1991 to 1996, Harbarth was a law student from 1991 to 1996 at Harbarth’s law school at the University of Heidelberg. Harbarth earned his Ph.D. in 1998, with a dissertation about investor protection within public sector corporations. In 2000, he completed an LL.M. degree in the Yale Law School, on an award from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Between 2006 and in 2008 Harbarth worked as a member of the law firm international Shearman & Sterling in Mannheim.

In June 2017, Harbarth voted against Germany’s introduction of same-sex marriage.

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Top Facts about Stephan Harbarth

1. Stephan Harbarth became President of the Federal Constitutional Court in 2020.
2. He was appointed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
3. Harbarth previously served as a member of parliament and lawyer.
4. He is known for his conservative views on constitutional law.
5. Harbarth has criticized the European Court of Justice’s jurisdiction over Germany.
6. He supports limiting asylum seekers’ rights to appeal decisions in court.
7. Harbarth has also advocated for stronger data protection laws in Germany.
8. In 2019, he ruled against a proposed ban on headscarves for legal trainees.
9. Harbarth has been involved in several high-profile cases, including challenges to Germany’s climate change policies and the country’s COVID-19 lockdown measures.
10. As President of the Federal Constitutional Court, he oversees one of Germany’s most important institutions for upholding democratic principles and protecting individual rights.