Wolfgang Schomburg

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Wolfgang Schomburg (born April 9, 1948 in Berlin) is one of the judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Until 2000 he was a judge at the Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe.

Schomburg studied law in Berlin and passed his first legal state examination at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1971, and the second in 1974. The same year he became a public prosecutor in Berlin (West), was a judge and eventually senior public prosecutor of Berlin. From 1989 to 1991 he was Undersecretary of State at the Senate Justice Department in the city-state of Berlin, and then until 1995 worked as a lawyer in Berlin. In 1995 he was appointed Judge at the Federal Supreme Court.