When I received the news about 20 years ago that the state of Berlin had selected me as a lay judge in an independent selection process, my heart sank.
Although I had already dealt with this topic before, all I remembered was a lot of responsibility and civic duty!
For this reason, I had certainly put this topic aside for a while. But when the "calling" came, I felt very honored and
immediately a kind of duty to concern myself with the tasks and duties of a lay judge.
Since the lay judge has the same voting rights as the judge in the court proceedings and in the decision-making process, it was interesting for me to deal with this responsibility and the
Possibilities in a constitutional system.
This pleasant circumstance prompted me to engage more closely with our legal system in Germany for the first time. I consider the diversity of security and the opportunity to work on it, for example, as a lay judge, to be a valuable asset that must be proactively protected by all of us.
Since then, I have followed developments in our society much more closely and can better understand and utilize my rights and responsibilities as a citizen.
I think it's wonderful and I'm grateful to be able to use the rules of the rule of law with all its rights and obligations!
