Cornelia Ganten-Lange, who has been a lawyer in Hamburg for many years and is known as a human rights activity as well as a lawyer, was elected as a Constitutional Court judge in the state council in 2009.

In 2015, Ganten-Lange, whose term of office expired, were once again elected with 89 “yes” and 14 “no”.

Cornelia Ganten-Lange, one of the 9 members of the Constitutional Court of the State of Hamburg, became the target of a smear campaign led by Die Welt years later.

Ganten-Lange is the latest judge to be smeared. Barbara Borchardt, who was elected as a member of the Constitutional Court of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Province last week, was targeted by the mainstream press in Germany on the grounds that she was a member of a group called "Anti-Capitalist Left".

Die Welt, one of the country's best sold newspapers, claimed that Cornelia Ganten-Lange was an "extreme leftist", quoting as evidence her struggle in the field of human rights, especially the rights of the Kurdish people. Kurdish politician Ali Ihsan Kıtay, who was tried in the PKK case in 2013 and sentenced to 2.5 years in prison, was one of the most important case used by the newspaper to prove its arguments. The headline went: "Constitutional judge has connection with extremists in Hamburg".

In addition, the fact that Ganten-Lange joined some activities dealing with solidarity with political prisoners and providing legal counselling for Kurds living in Germany in 2011 and 2012 was also considered a sign of the judge’s “extremist” activities. One of the events that Gant-Lange joined was in solidarity with Kurdish politicians jailed in Turkey.

The newspaper also claimed that Cornelia Ganten-Lange was a member of Rote Hilfe, this information was not confirmed by the organization.

The newspaper claims that a person supporting Azadî Centre and Rote Hilfe, which are followed by the country's intelligence agency, could not occupy such a place. The Constitutional Court on the other hand said it had no knowledge of such information.