Overview
- Presented in Wiesbaden, the Georg-August-Zinn Prize honored her contributions to constitutional and social law.
- The biennial award is endowed with €5,000 and granted by the Hessian SPD parliamentary group and state association.
- Her 2025 bid for the Federal Constitutional Court drew resistance from parts of the Union over liberal positions on vaccination and abortion, and a plagiarism campaign later proved unfounded.
- Explaining her withdrawal, she said she sought to protect the court and avoid risking the black-red coalition, and that she had a strong impression CDU/CSU backing would be insufficient.
- In a laudation, Justus Liebig University president Katharina Lorenz praised her for putting institutional integrity above career, and Brosius-Gersdorf vowed to keep working for democracy and the rule of law.