Michael Germann

Michael Germann (* 1967 ) is a German lawyer and professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1986, Germann began studying law at the Karls-Gymnasium Stuttgart in the winter semester 1987/88 at the University of Tübingen . He continued this in 1990 after a stay abroad at the University of Geneva at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , where he graduated in 1992 with the first state examination in law. The second state examination followed in 1994. Germann had been working as a research assistant since 1992, after his second state examination as a research assistant to Christoph Link at the Hans Liermann Institute for Canon Law in Erlangen, where he received his doctorate in 1999. jur. completed. This work received both the doctoral award from the Law Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and the doctoral award from the Staedtler Foundation. In 2001 there followed his habilitation, with which he acquired the venia legendi for the subjects of constitutional and administrative law and canon law. His habilitation thesis was awarded the Konrad Hellwig Habilitation Prize in 2001.

Since the 2002/03 winter semester, Germann has held the chair for public law, state church law and church law at the Law Faculty of the University of Halle-Wittenberg . Since 2008 he has also been a co-opted member of the Halle Theological Faculty . In 2015, Germann was also appointed judge at the State Constitutional Court of Saxony-Anhalt .

Germann is married and has four children.

Publications (selection)

• Internet Security and Law Enforcement . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-428-09985-0 (dissertation).
• The jurisdiction of the Evangelical Church . so far unprinted, Erlangen (habilitation thesis).

Web links

• Germann at his chair at the University of Halle-Wittenberg
• Profile of Germann at the EKD
• Interview with Germann at juraexamen.com, July 17, 2007.