Post: | Vice President |
Body: | the Constitutional Court |
Flag: | Logo VfGH 2016.svg |
Flagsize: | 130 |
Flagcaption: | Logo of the Court |
Insignia: | Austria Bundesadler.svg |
Insigniasize: | 125 |
Insigniacaption: | Coat of Arms |
Incumbent: | Verena Madner |
Incumbentsince: | 24 April 2020 |
Status: | Deputy head and presiding judge of a court |
Department: | Austrian Constitutional Court |
Style: | Ms. Vice President |
Member Of: | Constitutional Court |
Seat: | Innere Stadt, Vienna |
Appointer: | The Government |
Appointer Qualified: | sworn in by the President |
Termlength: | Up to the age of 70 |
Constituting Instrument: | Constitution of Austria |
First: | Adolf Menzel |
Website: | vfgh.gv.at |
This is a list of vice presidents of the Constitutional Court (de|Vizepräsident des Verfassungsgerichtshofs) of Austria.[1] [2] The vice president of the Constitutional Court is the principal deputy to the president. He becomes the acting head of the court if the president resigns, dies or is dismissed.
Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Notes | |||
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Adolf Menzel | 1919 | 1930 | |||||
Constitutional Court disbanded from 1934 to 1945 | |||||||
Ludwig Adamovich senior | 1945 | 1946 | |||||
Gustav Zigeuner | 1946 | 1956 | |||||
Karl Wolff | 1958 | 1960 | |||||
Walter Antoniolli | 1957 | 1958 | |||||
Anton Mahnig | 1961 | 1969 | |||||
Leopold Werner | 1969 | 1975 | |||||
Kurt Ringhofer | 1976 | 1993 | |||||
Karl Piska | 1993 | 1998 | |||||
Karl Korinek | 1 January 1999 | 31 December 2002 | |||||
Brigitte Bierlein | 1 January 2003 | 22 February 2018 | |||||
Christoph Grabenwarter | 23 February 2018 | 19 February 2020 | |||||
Verena Madner | 24 April 2020 | Present |