Marcus Lutter

Marcus Lutter (born December 11, 1930 in Munich ) is a German lawyer .

Career

From 1950 Lutter studied law with a focus on commercial law and comparative law in Munich , Paris and Freiburg im Breisgau . After the first state examination in law in 1954, Lutter was awarded a doctorate in family law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in 1956. jur. doctorate (title of the dissertation: French Belgian and Luxembourg marriage law in a critical and comparative perspective on German marriage law ). After the second state examination in law, he worked as a notary in Rhineland-Palatinate from 1957 to 1960 . After completing his habilitation at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Mainz in 1963 (subject: capital, securing capital raising and capital maintenance in the share and GmbH rights of the EEC ), Lutter received a call to the newly founded Ruhr University Bochum in 1966 . There he took over the chair for German and European commercial and economic law. In 1972 Lutter was visiting professor at the University of California Law School at Berkeley . From 1980 until his retirement in 1996, Lutter was director of the Institute for Commercial and Business Law at the University of Bonn .

In 2000/2001 Lutter was a member of the government commission “ Corporate Governance ”, from 2001 to mid-2008 he was a member of the government commission on the German Corporate Governance Code . Today Lutter is the spokesman for the Center for European Business Law at the University of Bonn, which he has chaired since 1989.

As the author of numerous essays, books and commentaries, Lutter has played a key role in shaping the law of stock corporations and GmbHs over the past few decades. He is also involved in corporate governance issues. Lutter supports the Reinhard Mohn Institute for Management and Corporate Governance (RMI) at the University of Witten / Herdecke , where he works as a guest lecturer.

Lutter's students are Uwe H. Schneider , Peter Hommelhoff , Wolfram Timm , Barbara Grunewald and Tim Drygala .

Awards

Lutter holds honorary doctorates from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (1994), the University of Warsaw (2003) and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2008). In 1991 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Web links

• Center for European Business Law at the University of Bonn at zew.uni-bonn.de
• Literature by and about Marcus Lutter in the catalog of the German National Library