Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff

Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff is Professor Emerita of Public Law at the University of Bielefeld and a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court (Second Senate). In November, she opened the lecture series The Future of Bureaucracy at CAS along with the historians Andreas Fahrmeir and Hedwig Richter. The presentation is also accessible on YouTube.

From 1988 to 1992, Lübbe-Wolff held the positions of Municipal Administration Director and Head of the Water and Environmental Protection Offices in Bielefeld. She subsequently accepted a professorship in Public Law on the Faculty of Law at the University of Bielefeld, while also serving as Director of the University's Center for Interdisciplinary Research from 1996 to 2002. In 2000, Lübbe-Wolff was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG). From 2000 to 2002, she chaired the German Council of Experts on Environmental Issues.

Her recent publications include Der ehrliche Deutsche: Über Problemverleugnung, Moralismus und Regelungsillusion in Sachen Korruption, Frankfurt/M., 2025; Demophobie. Muss man die direkte Demokratie fürchten? in: Klostermann Rote Reihe. Nr. 151, Frankfurt/M. 2023