Thomas Oppermann (academic)


Thomas Oppermann was a German legal academic and university administrator.
Oppermann received his Doctor of Laws from the University of Freiburg in 1959 and became a professor in Public, European, International Law and Foreign Politics at the University of Tübingen in 1967. He served as dean of the Tubingen Faculty of Law between 1971 and 1972, and became the university vice president in 1983.
Between 1985 and 2003, Oppermann served as a judge on the Baden-Württemberg State Court of Justice, the state's constitutional court. He has also served on several legal associations, including as chair of the Association of German Constitutional Lawyers. For his legal scholarship, Oppermann received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2004.
Oppermann is married to Ingrid Oppermann, and has four children.

Selected publications