Prof. Dr Christian Seiler
(Presiding Judge at the Munich Higher Regional Court)
Curriculum Vitae
Surname: Seiler
First name: Christian Georg
Born on 5 September 1969 in Burghausen
Married to Heike Seiler since May 1994 – two daughters.
Education:
Primary school: Mühldorf/Mößling (1975 to 1979)
Secondary school: Ruperti-Gymnasium, Mühldorf/Inn (1979 to 1988)
University studies/degrees:
Studied law at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (1988 to 1993)
First State Examination: September 1992
Legal traineeship: Traunstein Regional Court, April 1993 to August 1995
Second State Examination: November 1994
Career: Since September 1995, Bavarian judiciary
1995 to 1997: Probationary judge at the Landshut Regional Court
1997 to 2001: Landshut Public Prosecutor’s Office
2001 to 2003: Judge at Landshut Magistrates’ Court (family court judge)
2003 to 2010: Full-time head of the working group for trainee lawyers at the Judicial Training Centre in Munich
2008: Judge at the Munich Higher Regional Court
2011 to 2017 Member of the 12th Civil Division (family matters)
2017 to 2021 Director of Freising Local Court
2021 to 2022: Judge at the Bavarian Higher Regional Court, Munich (member of the 1st Civil Division and the Public Procurement Division)
Since 10 June 2022, Presiding Judge at the Munich Higher Regional Court, 12th Civil Division (family matters)
Other activities:
1989 to 1992: Scholarship holder of the Hanns Seidl Foundation
2004 to 2006 PhD at the University of Passau under Prof. Dr Müßig:
‘The concept of a gift within the framework of Section 2287 of the German Civil Code (BGB)’
2006–2013: Lecturer at the University of Passau
Since 2013: Working group leader at the DFGT (German Family Court Conference)
Since 2014: Member of the Academic Association for Family Law
Since 2014: Lecturer at the University of Regensburg
Since 2016: Member of the DFGT Reform Commission; since 2019: Deputy Chair
Since September 2019: Co-editor of FamRZ
Publications:
Doctoral thesis:
‘The Concept of a Gift in Section 2287 of the German Civil Code (BGB)’ – Zerb-Verlag 2006
Commentaries/textbooks:
- Lawyers’ Commentary on the BGB (1st and 2nd editions) – subsequently the Nomos Commentary on the BGB, Volume 5: Sections 2286 to 2300 of the BGB
- Family and Inheritance Law Examination Papers (Luchterhand-Verlag – now Vahlen-Verlag) – Inheritance Law Examination Papers
- Family Procedural Law (Luchterhand-Verlag – now Vahlen-Verlag) by Heintschel-Heinegg/Seiler/Siede
- The New FamFG (Kroiß/Seiler) – published by Nomos, 1st and 2nd editions (2008/2009)
- Co-author of the Handbook for Specialist Lawyers in Family Law since the 7th edition (2009/2011/2013/2015), Chapter 1 (procedural law) and Chapter 6 (child maintenance); since 2015: also parental maintenance and vicarious liability; from 2018 (11th edition) onwards, only parental maintenance and vicarious liability.
- Co-author of *Thomas/Putzo* since the 32nd edition (2011): initially Book 8, Enforcement – since the 33rd edition (2012), additionally Legal Aid and Assistance with Court Costs; since the 34th edition (2013) also enforcement in family matters (Sections 86 et seq. FamFG); from the 37th edition (2016) also covering arbitration proceedings and the EU Enforcement and Preservation Regulation; from the 38th edition, additionally Sections 128 to 144 together with Sections 946 et seq.; from the 39th edition: additionally Sections 145–165; from the 40th edition: additionally Sections 606–614 (model declaratory proceedings); from the 41st edition onwards, additionally sections 253–347; from the 42nd edition onwards, additionally sections 348–605a, sections 1076–1078; 1097–1104; Introduction to the FamFG; Sections 38–48 FamFG; Sections 58–75 FamFG; from the 43rd edition onwards, Sections 238 et seq. FamFG – removal of Book 10 of the ZPO;
- Contribution in Götz/Schnitzler, 40 Years of Family Law Reform, CH Beck 2017, pp. 357–371: unaccompanied refugee minors – practical issues relating to custody and access rights.
- Niepmann/Seiler: Case law on the amount of maintenance, 14th edition 2019
Contribution to the commemorative volume for Dose: Gieseking Verlag, 2022: Aspects of maintenance law relating to influencers, pp. 187–197.
Articles/journal contributions:
- FamRZ 2012, 258 ff. Bausch/Gutdeutsch/Seiler: On the alternating custody model in maintenance law
- FF 2014, 136: Parents’ maintenance claims against the child
- FamRZ 2015, 1845: The alternating custody model – maintenance law issues
- FF 2017, 355: Maintenance law issues relating to blended families
- FamRZ 2018, 1130: Is there a need for reform in the law on custody, access and maintenance?
- FamRZ 2022, 1338: Götz/Seiler: A change of system in maintenance law?
- Since 2018: Niepmann/Seiler: The development of maintenance law:
- - Since early 2018: NJW 2018, 2603
- - Since mid-2018: NJW 2019, 643
- - Since early 2019: NJW 2019, 2581
- - Since mid-2019: NJW 2020, 654
- - Since early 2020: NJW 2020, 2597
- - Since mid-2020: NJW 2021, 673
- Since the start of 2021: NJW 2021, 2622
Various comments on decisions of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) and Higher Regional Courts (OLG) in FamRZ, FF or FamRB, e.g.:
- - FamRZ 2021, 1968; note on BGH XII ZB 474/20
- - FamRZ 2021, 191; note on BGH XII ZB 201/19
- - FF 2021, Issue 2; note on BGH XII ZB 482/19
- - FamRZ 2020, 1829; note on OLG Saarbrücken 6 UF 49/20
- - FamRZ 2020, 579; note on BGH XII ZB 580/18
- - FamRZ 2020, 447; note on BGH IX ZB 83/18
- - FamRZ 2019, 700; note on BGH XII ZB 364/18 and X ZR 115/16
- - FamRZ 2018, 263; note on BGH XII ZB 503/16
- - FamRZ 2017, 1132; note on BGH XII ZB 415/16
- - FamRB 2017, 170; note on BGH XII ZB 118/16
- - FF 2017, 116; note on BGH XII ZB 565/15
- - FamRZ 2016, 1057; note on BGH XII ZB 45/15
- - FamRZ 2016, 891; note on BGH XII ZB 693/14
- - FamRZ 2015, 2152 Note on BGH XII ZB 62/14
- - FamRZ 2015, 1373 Note on BGH XII ZB 251/14
- - FamRZ 2015, 837 Note on BGH XII ZB 242/14
- - FamRZ 2014, 636 Note on BGH XII ZB 25/13
- - FamRZ 2012, 1802 Note on BGH XII ZB 84/10
