Professor Dr Maschmann was born in Hamburg on 6 March 1965. After completing his Abitur in Hamburg in 1984 and completing his military service in Schleswig-Holstein, he began studying law and business administration in Hamburg and Passau. From 1985 to 1991, he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. He undertook several work placements, including at ZDF and Deutsche Shell AG in Hamburg. In 1988, he passed his intermediate diploma in business administration in Passau, and in 1991 he passed the First State Examination in Law. He then worked as a research fellow and assistant to Professor Wolfgang Hromadka at the Chair of Civil, Labour and Commercial Law at the University of Passau. From 1991 to 1994, he was a trainee lawyer at the Higher Regional Court of Munich, where he passed the assessor’s examination in 1994. During this time, he trained numerous trainee solicitors and trainee notaries in Dresden. This was followed by various academic projects and publications.
In 2000, he was awarded a doctorate for his thesis on ‘Employment Contracts and Contracts with the Self-Employed’, for which he received the e.on AG Culture Prize.
In 2003, he completed his habilitation on the topic ‘Collective bargaining autonomy under legislative scrutiny’, following which he was awarded the venia legendi to teach Civil Law, German and European Labour and Social Law. At the same time, he became a private lecturer at the University of Passau.
From 2001 to 2004, he worked in the central human resources department of Siemens AG in Munich, where he was responsible for the areas of ‘works constitution’ and ‘restructuring’.
From 2004 to 2013, he was Professor of Civil Law and Labour Law and Director of the Institute for Corporate Law at the University of Mannheim, where he also served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law and as a member of the Senate. For many years, he also served as a liaison lecturer for the German National Academic Foundation.
Since the 2013/2014 winter semester, he has held the Chair of Civil Law and Labour Law at the University of Regensburg. From 2015 to 2023, he was Dean of Studies for the Faculty and Academic Director of REGINA, the Centre for Individualised and Sustainable Education at the Faculty of Law. Since October 2016, he has been a visiting professor at Charles University in Prague. Since 2018, he has been responsible for the faculty’s academic continuing education programmes: LLM Compliance, LLM Legal Tech and LLM HRM. Together with the President of the Federal Labour Court, he chairs the Wiesbaden Seminar for Professors of German Labour Law and organises major labour law conferences.
His main areas of research include works constitution law, restructuring, compliance, employee data protection, matrix organisations and the flexibilisation of working conditions. Professor Dr Maschmann has authored numerous specialist articles, commentaries and books, including a two-volume textbook on labour law. He is the editor of handbooks on the drafting of contracts in labour law and on remuneration structures.