Curriculum vitae
Date of birth 09/20/1964
Place of birth Frankenthal/ Pfalz
Marital status Married, three children
1986-1992 | Studied law at Saarland University (Saarbrücken) – with a study visit to the University of Exeter (UK) – and at Heidelberg University (first state examination) |
1992/1993 | Scholarship at the DFG graduate program “Unternehmensorganisation und unternehmerisches Handeln nach deutschem, europäischem und internationalem Recht” (“Organization of companies and entrepreneurial acts in German, European and International Law”); Heidelberg University Doctoral thesis: “The Corporate Group in French Labor Law,” supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter Hommelhoff |
1994-1996 | Legal clerkship at the district courts of Darmstadt and Frankfurt, electoral station in Lyon (France), second state examination |
1997/1998 | Lawyer at “Feddersen Laule Scherzberg & Ohle Hansen Ewerwahn” (now “White & Case, Feddersen”), Frankfurt am Main |
1999-2004 | Research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Peter Hommelhoff, Institute for German and European Company and Commercial Law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; as well as research assistant at the Center for lawyer-oriented legal education at the law faculty of the Universität Heidelberg since 2002 |
Dec 2004 | Habilitation: Venia legendi for civil law, commercial, corporate, and economic law, comparative law |
| Habilitation thesis: "Binnenmarktkonformes Gesellschaftsrecht“ (“Company law in line with the internal market”) (de Gruyter, 2006) | |
2005-2007 | Lecturer at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; substitute lecturer in Bielefeld, Heidelberg and Würzburg |
2006-2007 | Appointment at the University of Greifswald; appointment at the University of Würzburg |
since 2007 | Chairholder for Civil law, German and European Commercial and Company Law at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg |
| 2013-2017 | Dean of Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Würzburg |
| 2019-2023 | Elected member of the Senate of the University of Würzburg |
| 2021-2023 | Chairperson of the Senate |
| 2022-2024 | Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Würzburg |
| since October 1, 2024 | Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Würzburg |
| Other functions | Since 2014 continuous member of the Informal Company Law Experts Group (ICLEG) advising the European Commission on matters of company law |
| Co-editor: “Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht (ZGR)” (Journal of Corporate and Company Law) and “European Company and Financial Law Review (ECFR)” | |
| Member of the international working groups on the draft European Model Company Act (EMCA) and the draft European Economic Code (in cooperation with the Association Henri Capitant) | |
| Member of the board of the Institute for Notarial Law at the University of Würzburg | |
| Main areas of research | Find it here. |
