Düsseldorf office

Königsallee 20 
40212 Düsseldorf
Germany
Telephone: +49-211-86602-0 
Telefax: +49-211-86602-20 

How to find us

Personal information

  • Born in: 1942

  • Law studies: Bonn and Bochum Universities

Career

  • Entered the North-Rhine-Westphalia judiciary in 1973

  • Director of the Essen-Borbeck, Bottrop and Recklinghausen Local Courts (Amtsgerichte)

  • President of the Essen and Dortmund Local Courts

  • Since 2007 retired; admitted as a lawyer

Main practice areas

  • German and international corporate and commercial law

  • Family law and law of succession

  • Computer law

  • Civil service law

  • Law of enforcement proceedings

  • Criminal law

Languages

  • English

  • French

Other activities / lecturing (selection)

  • Lecturer at the Fachhochschule für Innere Verwaltung (High School of Government) in Dortmund in civil law, criminal law and criminal procedure

  • Head of the NRW Working Group on the Electronic Partnership Register (introducing the first electronic legal register in Germany), head of the RegisSTAR system unit (development and introduction of the electronic commercial, cooperative and associations register with Internet search capability; introduced in twelve Länder)

  • Representative of Germany at European conferences on register law