Jan Christian Sahl

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Jan Christian Sahl (* 1979 in Wiesbaden ) is a German lawyer and social entrepreneur .

Life

Sahl graduated from high school in Wiesbaden and did his community service in an institution for mentally disabled people in Belgium . He then studied economics and law at the University of Bonn and worked at the Institute for Canon Law there . The first and second state exams followed . After working for the Scientific Service of the German Bundestag and for the management consultancy Ernst & Young , Sahl worked as a lobbyist for the Federation of German Industry (BDI) from 2011 to 2017 , where he was a. a. dealt with tobacco, patent and digital policy. He has been teaching at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Economics and Law as a lecturer in constitutional and administrative law since 2012 . In 2018 he received his doctorate from the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University with a thesis on constitutional and European law supervised by Christian Waldhoff .

Political work

At the end of 2017, Sahl left the BDI and, with the support of former top politicians such as Norbert Lammert or Brigitte Zypries, founded the non-profit organization welobby , since, according to his own statement, “other groups would have a much greater need for lobbyists to stand up for them.” The organization represents non-commercial interests, that can be proposed by citizens and small NGOs .

Sahl is also part of the founding team of HateAid , an organization founded in 2018 to combat hate online .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Kassel: Platform for Citizens' Interests - A lobby for everyone who doesn't have a lobby. Deutschlandfunk Kultur , accessed on August 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Bernd Lechler: Support for the lobbyless - Jan Christian Sahl through his organization Welobby. SWR2, accessed on August 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Jan Christian Sahl: Assoc. Researcher, Internet-Based Innovation. In: HIIG. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  4. ^ HRW Berlin - Jan Christian Sahl. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  5. ^ David Böcking: Founder of the Welobby platform: lobbyist for everyone . In: Spiegel Online . May 3, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed August 27, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Stefan Reccius: Jan Christian Sahl: The Welobby founder wants to make political lobbying “compatible with democracy”. Handelsblatt , accessed on August 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Uwe Ritzer: Lobbyists want to fight for the lobbyless. Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on August 27, 2019 .
  8. ↑ tagesschau.de: HateAid sues for victims of Internet hatred. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
  9. ↑ "HateAid" against hate comments. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Philipp Siebert: Renate Künast badly abused on Facebook - “Acceptable” for the Berlin court. In: Berliner Morgenpost . September 18, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sahl, Jan Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and social entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden