Joachim Hennrichs

Joachim Hennrichs (* 1965 in Polch ) is a German law scholar and professor at the University of Cologne .

life and work

After graduating from the Kurfürst-Balduin-Gymnasium in Münstermaifeld in 1984, Hennrichs studied law at the University of Mainz from the following year . In 1990 he passed his first state examination in law. In 1994 he was awarded a doctorate by the University of Mainz with a corporate law publication supervised by Walther Hadding . iur. PhD. In 1998 he completed his habilitation with a paper on accounting law. In the winter semester 1998/99 Hennrichs held a teaching position at the TU Darmstadt , in the winter semester 1999/2000 he was a professor at the University of Potsdam . From the following summer semester 2000 to February 2003 he was a full professor for civil law with banking law at the corresponding chair at the University of Münster . In March 2003 Hennrichs switched to the chair for civil law, accounting and tax law at the University of Cologne , which he has held since then. He is also director of the Cologne Institute for Corporate Law and of counsel at the Bonn law firm Flick Gocke Schaumburg .

Hennrich's research focuses primarily on German and European commercial and corporate law as well as tax law. Special emphasis is placed on accounting law and other legal aspects of auditing as well as income and corporate tax law, in particular the law of taxable profit determination and taxation for partnerships and corporations. Among other things, he comments in the Munich Commentary on the Stock Corporation Act and accounting law.

Hennrichs is married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

• Change of legal form and universal succession in the event of transformations (including mergers and demergers) . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-428-08302-2 (dissertation).
• Options in the accounting law of corporations - with special consideration of the EC accounting directive . Otto Schmidt, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3-504-35107-6 (habilitation thesis).
• The HGB exam . 3. Edition. CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-406-49225-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Hennrichs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hennrichs at his chair at the University of Cologne
• Hennrichs at Beck-Verlag
• Hennrichs at Flick Gocke Schaumburg