Dr. Rudolf Katz, who for two months served as Acting Chief Justice of the German Supreme Constitutional Court following the death of the former Chief Justice, this week-end stepped down from the highest judicial post in West Germany following the election of Dr. Joseph Wintrich as Chief Justice.
Dr. Katz resumed his post as Vice-President of the court, which sits at Karlsruhe and is invested with more power in the political sphere than ever before enjoyed by a German court. In that sense, Dr. Katz occupied one of the highest government positions ever held by a Jew in Germany.
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