Vita

1983

Abitur (high school graduation) at the Ganerben-Gymnasium Künzelsau/Hohenlohekreis

1983/1984

1984-1986

vocational training in banking

1986-1989

law studies at the Universität des Saarlandes (Saarbrücken) with a study visit at the University of Exeter (GB)

1989-1992

continuation of studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; first state exam

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”) under supervision of Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c Peter Hommelhoff

1994-1996

legal clerkship at the district courts of Darmstadt and Frankfurt, electoral station in Lyon (France)

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

15.12.2004

habilitation at the law faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with a postdoctoral thesis on “Binnenmarktkonformes Gesellschaftsrecht” (“Company Law within the internal market”)

Awarding of the venia legendi in the subjects civil law, trade law, company and commercial law as well as comparative law

2005-2007

lecturer at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; substitute lecturer in Bielefeld, Heidelberg and Würzburg

2006-2007