Gero Himmelsbach

Gero Himmelsbach (* 1965 in Munich ) is a German lawyer and honorary professor at the University of Bamberg .

Career

Himmelsbach studied law at the LMU Munich from 1985 to 1990 and received the first state examination in 1991 , followed by a legal clerkship until 1994 , which was completed with the second state examination. He was then admitted to the Munich I Regional Court and joined a law firm in which he has been a partner since 1998.

Gero Himmelsbach deals with competition , press and media law . In 1986 he became a consultant for the Hanns Seidel Foundation for journalist training . In 1996 Himmelsbach was appointed lecturer at the University of Bamberg for media law. In 1998 he finished me the dissertation The protection of media informants in Civil Procedure: civil procedural right to remain silent and substantive rights to withhold information for media and media staff his promotion to Dr. iur. at the University of Regensburg . Since 2000 he has been teaching journalists as a lecturer at the Academy of the Bavarian Press in Internet and press law and takes part in the advanced training for lawyers as a lecturer in competition law at the Munich Lawyers' Seminar. In 2006, Himmelsbach became a lecturer for a series of seminars on competition law from the CH Beck publishing house . Since July 27, 2006 he has been honorary professor at the Institute for Communication Studies at the University of Bamberg. Since 2010, Himmelsbach has been co-editor of the only loose-leaf commentary on the Bavarian Media Act .

Web links

• Himmelsbach on the homepage of the University of Bamberg
• Literature by and about Gero Himmelsbach in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ record of the dissertation on dn-b.info (last accessed on 21 June 2020).