Katharina Uffmann

Katharina Uffmann (* 1979 in Wiesbaden ) is a German law scholar and university lecturer .

Life

After graduating from the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz , Uffmann studied law from 1998 to 2003 with additional training in economics (acquisition of the title of business lawyer) at the University of Bayreuth . In January 2004 she passed the first state law examination. From 2004 to 2006 the legal preparatory service at the Higher Regional Court of Bamberg followed . After the second state examination in 2006, Uffmann worked as a research assistant at the chair for civil law, labor, tax and social law at the University of Bayreuth and in October 2009 at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth with a thesis with Karl-Georg Loritz on the prohibition of retaliatory partial retention with honors doctorate . A stay abroad at the University of California, Irvine, followed from June to September 2011 .

From January 2012 to February 2014 she was a habilitation student at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth . In January 2014 she was offered a position at the private University of Witten / Herdecke . In February 2014, he received his habilitation from the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth, venia legendi for the subjects of civil law, labor law, commercial and corporate law and capital market law. With her interdisciplinary habilitation thesis Interim Management , she has broken new ground from a legal perspective. The temporary employment of external specialists and executives was still a largely unknown field despite its widespread use in law. For the first time, Uffmann examined, explained and systematized the economic phenomenon from a legal perspective. With her habilitation topic, she has also built a bridge to legal issues in family businesses. She lectured and published on the subject of interim management in the succession process of family businesses and was appointed to the research center for family businesses at the University of Bayreuth even before her habilitation. From May 2014 to March 2016 she held the WIFU endowed chair for commercial law, labor law and family business law at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Witten / Herdecke, funded by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.

In November 2015 she was offered a chair for civil law, family and inheritance law and corporate law at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Web links

• Literature by and about Katharina Uffmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Chair of civil law, family and inheritance law and corporate law at the University of Bochum