Bertram Schmitt

Biography

In 2014, Prof. Dr Bertram Schmitt was nominated by the German Federal Government for election as judge of the International Criminal Court. The Assembly of States Parties elected him to the court on December 10, 2014. He was elected from the Proposal List A for candidates with proven expertise in the field of criminal law. After earning a law degree and PhD in 1985, Prof. Schmitt began as a research associate at the University of Frankfurt/Main. He entered the Higher Judicial Service of the German State of Hesse in 1991. He was appointed Presiding Judge of the Darmstadt Regional Court (Landgericht) in 1999. In April 2000, the Bavarian State Minister for Science, Research and Art appointed him to the post of Honorary Professor at the University of Würzburg, where he teaches criminal law, criminal law procedure, and criminology. Prof. Schmitt was appointed Judge of the German Federal Supreme Court on May 8, 2005. There he served initially in the XI Civil Division, which is responsible for cases involving banks and stock exchanges; he was appointed to the II Criminal Division in January 2008. In addition, Bertram Schmitt has served as an ad-hoc judge with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).