The lawyer Ruth Herz, who became known as a TV youth judge, is dead. She died on February 2 at the age of 79, a spokesman for the RTL television station said on Friday, citing Herz’s family environment.
The doctor of law played herself in the RTL court program “Das Jugendgericht” from 2001 to 2005 and negotiated fictitious cases of young offenders.
According to RTL, Herz then withdrew from the media business and went to Oxford University for a research project. Herz was born in Haifa in 1943 to Jewish parents who had fled the Nazis. After the Second World War, her parents moved to Germany with her.
After studying law, Herz became a judge at the District Court of Cologne in 1974. In 1998 she received the Federal Cross of Merit. The “Frankfurter Rundschau” had previously reported. (dpa)
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