Rudolf Mellinghoff

{{Short description|German judge, jurisprudent and tax law expert}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Rudolf Mellinghoff

| office = President of the Federal Fiscal Court

| termstart2 = 23 January 2001

| termend2 = 31 October 2011

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|11|25|df=y}}

| office2 = Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany

| termstart1 = 31 October 2011

| termend1 = 31 July 2020

| predecessor1 = {{Ill|Wolfgang Spindler|de|Wolfgang Spindler (Jurist)}}

| successor1 = {{ill|Hans-Josef Thesling|de}}

}}

Rudolf Mellinghoff (born 25 November 1954) is a German judge, jurisprudent and tax law expert who served as President of the Federal Fiscal Court from 2011 to 2020. He was also a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court serving in the court's second senate (2001–2011).{{cite web|url=http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/richter/mellinghoff.html|title=Justice Mellinghoff website|accessdate=2010-01-01|work=Bundesverfassungsgericht website|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106054910/http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/richter/mellinghoff.html|archivedate=2010-01-06}}

Career

Prior to his appointment to the Federal Constitutional Court, he served as judge at the Federal Fiscal Court from 1997 to 2001. He left the Federal Constitutional Court prematurely to return to the Federal Fiscal Court as its President.{{cite web|url=https://www.bundesfinanzhof.de/pressemitteilungen|title=Prof. Dr. h. c. Rudolf Mellinghoff new President of the Federal Finance Court|accessdate=2018-12-01|work=Bundesfinanzhof website}}

In 2022, Mellinghoff was appointed to the Commission for the Reform of the Electoral Law and the Modernization of Parliamentary Work, co-chaired by Johannes Fechner and Nina Warken.[https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2022/kw14-pa-wahlrechtskommission-konstituierung-887588 Fechner und Warken leiten Kommission zur Reform des Wahlrechts] Bundestag, press release of 7 April 2022.

Other activities

Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Member of the Board of Trustees[https://www.tax.mpg.de/en/organization/board_of_trustees.html Board of Trustees] Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance.
International Fiscal Association (IFA), Member of the Permanent Scientific Committee (since 2017)
Judicial Integrity Group, Member (since 2010)[https://www.judicialintegritygroup.org/the-hon-prof-dr-rudolf-mellinghoff Members: Rudolf Mellinghoff] Judicial Integrity Group.