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Mr. Schenke was born in 1968, is married, and has three children. After studying law in Tübingen, Cologne, and Heidelberg, and completing his legal traineeship in Freiburg and New York, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Professor Würtenberger at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. There, in 1995, he earned his doctorate with a dissertation on administrative procedural law. Following a research fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) on legal decision-making in tax law, he completed his habilitation in Freiburg in 2004, receiving the venia legendi in Public Law, Administrative Law, Tax Law, and Legal Theory. From October 2006 to March 2008, Mr. Schenke served as representative and lecturer of the Chair of Public Law and Tax Law at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg. From October 2007 to September 2008, he held the Chair of Public Law and Tax Law at the Faculty of Law of Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Since October 2008, Mr. Schenke has been conducting research and teaching at the Faculty of Law of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, succeeding Professor Dr. Tiedtke.

In addition to tax law, his research focuses on security law, New Public Management, public-private partnerships, public procurement law, European competition and social law, as well as administrative procedural law. He has been involved in research projects on § 110g of the German Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO), the reform of statutory health insurance, Europol, and intelligent video surveillance, funded by the Federal Ministry of Justice, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Thyssen Foundation, and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

From 2011 to 2018, Mr. Schenke served as Director of the Graduate School Law, Economics and Society. From December 2013 to September 2019, he chaired the Permanent Commission for the Investigation of Scientific Misconduct at the University of Würzburg.