Hartmut Oetker

Hartmut Oetker (born March 14, 1959 in Hildesheim ) is a German legal scholar and full professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . There he holds the chair for civil law , labor law and business law . His research focus is on labor law, and publications on civil law, commercial and company law.

Oetker studied law at the Free University of Berlin , where he passed his first state examination in 1983 . In 1986 Oetker received his doctorate with a thesis on co-determination law at the law faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . After taking the second state examination in law at the joint examination office of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein in 1988, he completed his habilitation in 1993 in Kiel for the subjects of civil law , labor law , commercial and company law .

In 1995 Oetker was appointed university professor at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In autumn 2005 he accepted an appointment at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , where he succeeded Peter Kreutz .

Oetker is a judge at the Thuringian Higher Regional Court and a member of the board of the Ernst Abbe Foundation .

Publications (selection)

• The implementation of emergency and maintenance work during industrial disputes. 1984.
• The participation of the works and staff councils in the implementation of vocational training measures of the employer. Dissertation. 1986.
• Hearing the works council before dismissals. 1987.
• The statute of limitations - structures of a general legal institution. 1994.
• The continuing obligation and its termination. Habilitation thesis. 1994.
• Commercial law. 6th edition. 2010.
• Munich manual on labor law . 4th edition. CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-71330-9 . (as co-editor)

Web links

• Homepage of Hartmut Oetker