Career
Born in 1963 in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia
Married, with two children
Winter semester 1982/83 – Winter semester 1986/87: Studied
law in Cologne and Augsburg
1987: First state law examination in Augsburg
1987–90: Legal traineeship in the Munich Higher Regional Court district;
Research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr Helmut Köhler, University of Augsburg
1990: Second state law examination in Munich
1990–91: freelance associate at the law firm Seitz, Weckbach, Fent, Augsburg;
simultaneously research assistant at the Chair of Prof. Dr Helmut Köhler, University of Augsburg
Summer semester 1991 – Winter semester 1996/97: research assistant at the Chair of Civil, Commercial and Economic Law held by Professor Dr Helmut Köhler, University of Augsburg
1991: Awarded a doctorate for the thesis ‘The Interpretation of Section 1 of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB) and the Treatment of Purchasing Groups under Competition Law’
1992: University Award from the University of Augsburg for the doctoral thesis
1997 Habilitation with the thesis “Civil law injunctions and their enforcement”; awarded the right to lecture in Civil Law, Commercial Law, German and European Economic Law, and Civil Procedure Law by the Faculty of Law at the University of Augsburg
Summer semester 1997: Acting lecturer at the University of Leipzig
Winter term 1997/98 – Summer term 2001: Professor of Commercial and European Law at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (following an initial period as a locum)
July 2000–September 2001: Executive Director of the Institute for Commercial Law and Faculty Representative for the supplementary degree programme in commercial law at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Winter semester 2001/02: Moved to the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial Law and Business Law at the University of Regensburg
2006–2009 Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Law
2011–2013: Member of the Senate and the University Council
2013–2015 and 2017–2019: Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law
2015–2017: Dean of the Faculty of Law
2003–2013 Lecturer at the VWA Ostbayern (external link, opens in a new window)
Member of the Regensburg Association for Advertising Research (external link, opens in a new window)
Key areas of research and interest
Law relating to unfair competition and restrictions on competition, including procedural issues; contract law, including e-commerce; IT law; possession and ownership.