Winfried Hassemer is a German criminal law scholar. He was vice-president of the Federal Constitutional Court.

Born in Gau-Algesheim

Gau-Algesheim

Gau-Algesheim is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Gau-Algesheim, a kind of collective municipality.- Location :...

, Hassemer was from 1964–1969 a scientific assistant at the Institut for laws and social philosophy of the university of Saarland

Saarland

Saarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states...

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He is married with Kristiane Weber Hassemer, the chairmen judge of a criminal senate at the higher regional court of Frankfurt/Main and chairmen of national ethics advice of Germany. His brother Volker Hassemer was a senator in Berlin.