Jan Thiessen

Jan Thiessen (* 1969 ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

From October 1993 he studied law at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From February 1998 he passed the first state law examination in Berlin . From March 1998 he was a research assistant at the chair for civil law, private construction and real estate law, and modern and contemporary legal history. From May 1998 to May 2000 he was a trainee lawyer in the higher court district . After the second state law examination in Berlin in May 2000, he received a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation from July 2000 to June 2002 . Since November 2002 he was a research assistant . After completing his doctorate in April 2004 at the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin, he received a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation from July 2006 to June 2008 . In the 2008/09 winter semester he represented the chair for civil law and German legal history at the Free University of Berlin . After completing his habilitation in January 2009 at the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin, he represented the Chair of Civil Law and German and European Legal History in Bielefeld in the 2009 summer semester . In the fall semester of 2009, he represented the chair for civil law, rhetoric and European legal history at the University of Mannheim .

In September 2009 he was offered a position at Bielefeld University . In December 2009 he was offered a position at the University of Passau . In February 2010 he was offered a professorship at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . In March 2010 he accepted the call to Tübingen. From October 2010 to July 2017 he held the chair for civil law, German legal history and contemporary legal history, commercial and corporate law at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

Since March 2012 he has been secretary of the specialist group for principles (method, comparative legal history, legal ethnology) of the Society for Comparative Law . Since June 2013 he has been the representative of the Independent Scientific Commission at the Federal Ministry of Justice to deal with the Nazi past for the history of Department III (commercial and economic law). Since June 2015 he has been a member of the legal and contemporary history working group at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz . In August 2016 he was appointed to the Humboldt University in Berlin. He has been a member of the Standing Committee of the German Legal Historians' Conference since September 2016 .

Since August 2017 he has held the chair for civil law, contemporary legal history and the history of commercial law at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

His main research interests are contemporary legal history and the history of business law, partnership and corporation law and corporate succession law.

Fonts (selection)

• Company purchase and civil code. The liability of the seller of companies and company interests . Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8305-0988-X .
• as editor with Stefan Grundmann : Religious values ​​in law. Tradition, reception, transformation . Tübingen 2017, ISBN 3-16-155791-3 .
• as editor with Holger Fleischer : Corporate Law Stories . Tübingen 2018, ISBN 3-16-155768-9 .
• as editor with Hans-Peter Haferkamp and Christian Waldhoff : German dictatorial legal stories? Perspectives on the legal history of the GDR. Memorial symposium for Rainer Schröder (1947–2016) . Tübingen 2018, ISBN 3-16-156695-5 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Jan Thiessen