Lothar Lindenau

Lothar Lindenau (* 1942 ) is a German lawyer.

Career

Lindenau studied law in Berlin and Bonn and completed his legal clerkship in Bonn. He was admitted to the bar in 1971 and founded the law firm Lindenau, Prior & Partner in Düsseldorf. The specialist focus of his work is banking and capital market law, real estate and inheritance law.

Lindenau is also active in numerous professional bodies. In 1979 he became a member of the Board of Directors and in 1987 a member of the Presidium of the Düsseldorf Bar Association. Since 1999 he has been a member of the constitutional assembly of the Federal Bar Association. In 1984 he played a key role in the development of the professional pension scheme for lawyers in North Rhine-Westphalia, which now has almost 37,000 members. There he was elected to the board in 1994 and president in 1997. In 2005 he supported the establishment of the lawyers' pension scheme in Saxony-Anhalt.

Since 1996 he has been a member and, since 2004, deputy spokesman of the European Committee of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft berufsestandischer Betriebseinrichtungen e. V. (ABV). He gave decisive impetus in 2008 with the establishment of the European umbrella organization for pension institutions for the liberal professions in the European Union (EURELPRO).

Since 2003 he has been a legal advisor to the Central Council of Jews in Germany , since 2001 advisor to the German Medical Association and since the mid-1980s advisor to the Düsseldorfer Heimat- und Bürgerervereine.

Honors

• 1999: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

  for his voluntary professional commitment

• 2011: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

  for his life's work

Web links

• Brief résumé at the law firm Lindenau, Prior & Partner
• Minister Kutschaty hands out the Cross of Merit 1st Class to Düsseldorf lawyer Lothar Lindenau , press release from the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia dated August 31, 2011