Daniel Zimmer

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Daniel Zimmer (born December 9, 1959 in Luxembourg ) is a German legal scholar and managing director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Law and Economics (CASTLE) at the University of Bonn and at the same time Research Fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. From 2008 to 2016 he was a member of the Monopolies Commission and its chairman between 2012 and 2016. In March 2016, he resigned from this post in protest against the ministerial approval given by Federal Minister of Economics Sigmar Gabriel, contrary to a prohibition by the Federal Cartel Office and the unanimous rejection recommendation of the Competition Commission, to take over Kaiser's Tengelmann by Edeka .

Career

Zimmer studied law in Mainz, Lausanne and Göttingen from 1979 to 1984 . In 1988/89 he studied law at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), graduating with a Master of Laws . In 1991 he was transferred and limitations of arbitral decision of antitrust litigation - A comparative study based on US and German law at the University of Goettingen in Ulrich Immenga to Dr. iur. PhD. In 1996 he completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen with the habilitation thesis International Corporate Law - The conflict of laws of companies and its relationship to international capital market law and international corporate law. In the same year he was appointed university professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Since 2001 he has been a professor at the University of Bonn .

Research priorities and positions

Zimmer's research focuses on international capital market law , international corporate law and competition law . Together with the competition economist Ulrich Schwalbe , he wrote the book "Kartellrecht und Ökonomie" in which the authors describe the practical integration of modern economic approaches and methods in merger control . In his non-fiction book, "Less Politics !: Plea for a Freedom-Oriented Concept of State and Law", published in 2013, he appeals for a free economic and social policy. The book was awarded the German Business Book Prize in 2013 . More recently, Zimmer has focused on legal issues relating to digitization.

As chairman of the Monopolies Commission , Zimmer represented a differentiated point of view in competition policy and calls for regulation to intervene in the market where competition alone is unable to control the particular power of individual companies. He firmly rejects state monopolies . He speaks publicly on various questions of competition policy and is particularly considered an expert on financial markets and energy policy . In 2013, for example, he advocated the replacement of the flat-rate promotion of renewable energies under the EEG by means of feed-in tariffs in a more targeted and cost-effective manner with a quota model based on the Swedish model. In 2014 he commented, among other things, on Internet markets and the market power of large search engine operators, which in his opinion could require regulation.

In addition, Zimmer dealt with competition in the food retail sector and, as chairman of the Monopolies Commission, was responsible for the special report pursuant to Section 42 (4) GWB , in which the Monopolies Commission unanimously recommended that the Federal Minister of Economics not grant ministerial approval for the merger of the companies Edeka and Kaiser's Tengelmann . In particular, the public interest reasons put forward for the approval of the anti-competitive merger are not to be recognized as such or not proven. When Federal Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel did not follow this recommendation, Zimmer resigned from his position as Chairman of the Monopolies Commission on March 17, 2016. Achim Wambach was his successor as chairman .

Novel publication

In December 2019 Zimmer published the novel Möbius and The Art of Cheating . At the center of the story is a university professor whose life is thrown out of joint after he engages in questionable deals and an affair with a student. The book was published as a free online publication.

Fonts (selection)

  • Justice as a political goal , in: FAZ No. 63, March 15, 2013, p. 12.
  • It's not just about bias. The crucial question in the EDEKA case lies elsewhere , in: FAZ , August 3, 2016, p. 16.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://spon.de/aeHR3
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ FAZ.net / Helmut Bünder: Zimmer's bang (comment)
  4. ↑ handelsblatt.com / Bodo Hombach October 11, 2013
  5. ^ Daniel Zimmer: Need for regulation ?: The taming of algorithms . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 3, 2019]).
  6. ↑ [1] , report in Tagesspiegel, September 5, 2013
  7. ↑ Interview in Die Zeit , August 2, 2014
  8. ↑ www.monopolkommission.de ( Memento from June 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Prof. Achim Wambach, Ph.D. new chairman of the Monopolies Commission ( Memento from August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 5, 2016.
  10. ↑ From government advisor to crime writer. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Möbius and The Art of Cheating - A Book by Daniel Zimmer. Accessed December 3, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Room, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg