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You don't need to be anything more than someone with functioning eyesight to be the 'judge' in your example. I daresay presiding over a legal matter in a court of law requires just a smidgeon more knowledge.
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I don't know how Germany appoints their judges, but we have a pretty complicated system in America. Judges here can be anywhere from highly skilled to "never worked in the legal profession before in their life".
I don't think it's valuable to sling around words like "moronic" here. I'm even willing to believe that
based on German law, the judge may have made the correct decision.
BUT. Neither am I willing to assume without evidence that the judge is skilled in this sort of decision. I base that on my own experiences in America; as I said before, German judges may be selected differently.