Overview

• Parliamentary managers Steffen Bilger and Dirk Wiese told MPs in a joint letter that Emmenegger is the SPD’s new pick and affirmed her professional suitability.
• Sigrid Emmenegger, 48, serves on the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig and previously worked at the Constitutional Court and the Rhineland-Palatinate Higher Administrative Court.
• Parliamentary reporting indicates a committee nomination on 22 September and a Bundestag vote on 26 September.
• Electing judges requires a two‑thirds majority, making support from Greens or The Left pivotal; the joint proposal points to likely Union backing, and Greens said they were not briefed beforehand.
• Emmenegger would succeed outgoing justice Doris König, following the withdrawal of Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, with Ann‑Katrin Kaufhold and Günter Spinner remaining the other nominees.