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Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger - © FDP-Fraktion/Zelck

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Law con­sti­tutes the foun­da­tion of our free democ­ra­cy. Guar­an­tee­ing the rule of law and pur­su­ing fur­ther re­fine­ments in this area is a cen­tral task of legal pol­i­cy, and thus also of the Fed­er­al Min­istry of Jus­tice.

The Federal Ministry of Justice drafts leg­is­la­tion in the fields of law as­signed to its remit, main­ly in the fields of civil law, com­mer­cial and eco­nom­ic law, crim­i­nal law and pro­ce­du­ral law of the dif­fer­ent ju­ris­dic­tions.

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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger was today sworn in as the new German Federal Minister of Justice by the German Parliament. Prior thereto, the liberal politician was officially appointed by Horst Köhler, President of the Federal Republic of Germany, at the proposal of the German Chancellor.

Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has already been Federal Minister of Justice between 1992 and 1996. She resigned from office after a ballot among the members of the F.D.P. (Free Democratic Party) on the law on electronic eavesdropping for the purpose of criminal prosecution. She has been a member of the F.D.P. since 1978 and a member of the German Federal Parliament since 1990, where she has been spokeswoman for legal policy of the liberal parliamentary group and chairwoman of the F.D.P. at the parliamentary committee on legal affairs.
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