Sönke Hilbrans

Senior Legal Advisor

Sönke Hilbrans

Sönke Hilbrans studied law at Universität Trier and is a lawyer in Berlin. He specialized in criminal law and furthermore practices in administrative law, focusing on data protection, freedom of information and human rights. From 2014 to 2024, he has served as a judge at the Constitutional Court of Berlin. Hilbrans has coauthored commentaries on data protection and residency law. For many years, he served on the board of the Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein and the Deutschen Vereinigung für Datenschutz. He has been a partner lawyer since ECCHR’s establishment, and joined our team as a senior legal advisor in 2016.

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