The author examines the system of judicial legal protection against civil service personnel selection decisions with regard to its actual effectiveness in enforcing the fundamental right to equal access to public offices from Art. 33 para. 2 Basic law. The benchmark for the effectiveness test is the legal protection guarantee from Art. 19 para. 4 sentence 1 Basic law. Having the practical obstacles to effectiveness identified, the author concludes that the official selection process needs to be designed in a way that is friendly to judicial legal protection and derives certain minimum organizational requirements for the selection process.weiterlesen