Dr. Ulf Buermeyer
Co-Founder, Lage der Nation
Dr. Ulf Buermeyer, LL.M. (Columbia) is a lawyer and served as a judge at the Berlin Regional Court for ten years, where he primarily presided over cases involving murder and manslaughter. In 2024, he left the Berlin judiciary at his own request and now works full-time as a journalist for Lage der Nation. He also appears as a guest on TV shows such as “hart aber fair” and in podcasts. In addition, he is a regular speaker and moderator, for example at re:publica. In 2015, he co-founded the Society for Civil Rights (GFF), which defends fundamental and human rights through strategically conducted court proceedings.
Buermeyer studied law in Osnabrück, Leipzig, New York City, and Rennes (Brittany). He received his doctorate from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main with a thesis on data protection and effective legal protection in the prison system. In 2013/2014, he took a sabbatical to pursue a master's degree at Columbia Law School in New York City. For the Berlin Senate Department of Justice, he developed the Berlin Cell Site Query Transparency System (FTS), which notified people whose cell phones had been caught up in government surveillance measures.
