Karin Grasshof

Karin Grasshof
Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
In office 8 October 1986 – 15 October 1998

Karin Grasshof or Karin Graßhof (born 25 June 1937 in Kiel) is a German jurist. She served as a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1986 to 1998. She is currently an honorary professor at the University of Bonn.

As a judge, she was involved in the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of September 14, 1989, on the use of the diary of a prisoner; the decision on the five-percent hurdle in the first all-German election; the decision on the right of foreigners to vote in Schleswig-Holstein; the decision on Section 218 of May 28, 1993; the Maastricht ruling of October 12, 1993; the AWACS decision of July 12, 1994; the decision on the criminal liability of GDR foreign espionage of May 15, 1995; the decision on the Mauerschützenprozesse of October 26, 1996; the decisions on the admissibility of overhang mandates of April 10, 1997 and February 26, 1998; and the decision on the introduction of the euro of March 31, 1998.