Birgit Grundmann

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Birgit Grundmann (2016)

Birgit Grundmann (born July 15, 1959 in Wuppertal ) is a German lawyer. From 2009 to 2014 she was permanent state secretary of the Federal Ministry of Justice .

Life

Birgit Grundmann studied law and political science at the University of Hamburg . From 1985 to 1988 she was a research assistant at Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. She did her doctorate with him with a thesis on antitrust and media law ("The public broadcasters in competition", Nomos Verlag). She has also published on reforms in the area of ​​tenancy law, the law of adjustment of the law of obligations, maintenance law as well as modernization of the law of obligations and transfer of law in Japan.

Grundmann began her professional career in 1989 as a lawyer in Hamburg (lawyers Fischötter, Micheli und Partner - today CMS) and London (Field Fisher Waterhouse) with a focus on intellectual property, antitrust and competition law.

In 1993 she moved to the Federal Ministry of Justice , where she initially worked as a consultant in the departments "Copyright and Publishing Law", "Cabinet and Parliamentary Affairs" and as a personal assistant to the permanent state secretary. In 1998 she became head of division in the civil law department in charge of the reforms of tenancy law, the law of adapting the law of obligations and maintenance law. In 2005 she took over the management of the sub-department responsible for family and inheritance law and civil law cooperation in Europe. During the German EU presidency, she chaired a council working group on private international law. In 2009 she was - the first woman - to be appointed permanent state secretary and head of office of the Federal Ministry of Justice .

In 2014 she was transferred to temporary retirement due to a change of government. Afterwards, after a transition period, she switched to business and until the end of 2015 was an authorized representative of Allianz Deutschland AG . In 2016 she returned to the legal profession and has since been a partner at the law firm Steinmeyer und Partner mbB (Hamburg, Berlin, Lüneburg). In addition, she advises transition countries such as u. a. Albania, Belarus and Moldova on behalf of the European Union , the Foundation for International Legal Cooperation , GIZ and other institutions in the areas of reform legislation and legislative procedures, establishment of rule-of-law structures, judicial reform, fight against corruption and good governance.

Since 2018 she has been a member of the joint legal examination office of the states of Berlin and Brandenburg and takes examinations in the first and second state law exams.

She is married and has two sons.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Board position: model woman relocates Telekom boss Obermann. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved December 15, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Allianz creates the post of "Management Board Representative for Politics" - insurance magazine. In: www.versicherungsmagazin.de. Retrieved December 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Grundmann has left the alliance . In: Politics & Communication . ( politik-kommunikation.de [accessed December 15, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Circle of initiators and working groups. In: BerlinForum. Stiftung Zukunft Berlin, accessed on August 15, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Grundmann, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal