The President is the head of the Federal Administrative Court. He exercises the administrative supervision of the judges as well as the administrative and operational supervision of the non-judicial personnel of the Court. In this function, the Vice President acts as his deputy. The President also holds the position of a judge and presides a Senate - currently the 7th Senate. The President is equal among equals in his office as judge without any authority over the other judges. The tasks of the President also include maintaining contacts with other courts and judicial organisations in Germany and abroad.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Korbmacher is the President of the Federal Administrative Court.
He was born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1960. After completing his legal studies, he began his career as a judge at the Berlin Regional Court in 1988. In January 1990, he became a judge at the Berlin Administrative Court. In the same year, he obtained a doctorate of law from Freie Universität Berlin. In the following years, he was seconded as research associate to the Constitutional Court of the federal state of Berlin and to the Senate Department for Justice. In January 2003, he became a judge at the Berlin Higher Administrative Court (later on the Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court). In May 2005, he was appointed presiding judge at the Higher Administrative Court.
Following his appointment as judge at the Federal Administrative Court in November 2008, Mr Korbmacher became a member of the 9th Senate, which is responsible, among other things, for proceedings under planning law regarding the construction of federal trunk roads and for the law on public charges levied by municipalities. Since May 2017, he is presiding judge of the 7th Senate. Its responsibilities include the law on environmental protection including the immission control law. From August 2021 to January 2023, he was additionally presiding the 10th Senate, which was responsible for the law on freedom of information.
In addition to his work as a judge, Prof. Dr. Korbmacher is honorary professor at Technische Universität Berlin since 2007.
The Vice President of the Federal Administrative Court acts as deputy to the President.
Dr. Susanne Rublack is the Vice President of the Court.
She was born in Constance in 1962 and studied law at Universität Hamburg. In 1993, she obtained a doctorate of law from Freie Universität Berlin. Ms Rublack began her professional career at the office of the Federal State Commissioner for Data Protection in Schleswig-Holstein, where she was appointed Verwaltungsdirektorin in 2001. In 2002, she was seconded to the Schleswig Administrative Court and, in 2004, appointed judge at the administrative court. Subsequently, she was seconded as research associate to the Federal Constitutional Court and to the Schleswig Higher Administrative Court. At the latter, she had worked as a judge at the higher administrative court since 2010.
Following her appointment as judge at the Federal Administrative Court in February 2015, she became a member of the 8th Senate, which is, inter alia, responsible for economic administrative law and the law on restitution of expropriated property. Additionally, from February 2015 to October 2019, she was a member of the 10th Senate, which was, among others, responsible for municipal law. From August to December 2020, she was also a member of the 7th Senate, which was at that time primarily responsible for the law on the planning of railway lines and on environmental protection, as well as of the 10th Senate.
Since February 2023, she is presiding judge of the 10th Senate, which is now responsible, in addition to the law on freedom of information, for nature and landscape conservation law as well as other sectors of environmental law.
