Falk Würfele

Falk Würfele

Falk Würfele (born December 2, 1966 in Berlin-Neukölln ) is a German lawyer (criminal defense attorney) and honorary professor at the University of Siegen .

Life

Würfele was the only child of the businessman Peter Johannes Würfele and his wife Inge Gertrud Würfele, nee. Grains born. After a few years in Berlin, the family moved to Erkrath near Düsseldorf. There Falk Würfele attended the primary school on Falkenstrasse and later the municipal high school in Neandertal. He finished school in 1986 with the Abitur. After completing his military service, he first studied business administration in Essen from 1988 . In 1989, Würfele switched to law studies at Bielefeld University , which he completed in 1993 with the first state examination.

This was followed by the acquisition of a theoretical specialist lawyer qualification in tax law, a doctorate in corporate and legal professional law on the subject of civil law for lawyers as well as a two-year stay in the USA with a study at Miami Law School and an internship at an American law firm. During the doctoral period, Falk Würfele worked as a tutor for law students. The Rigorosum took place in corporate and legal law as well as in loan security law . In 1997 and 1998, Falk Würfele completed his legal clerkship . In 1999 he began working as a lawyer in Düsseldorf. After a short time as an employee, he founded a law firm in Düsseldorf with two partners . Today he works in his own law firm.

Würfele has been an honorary professor at the University of Siegen since 2012, teaching “German and International Construction Law” and “International White Collar Criminal Law and Compliance”. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Construction and Real Estate Law Working Group of the German Lawyers' Association and headed the International Construction Law working group there until 2016.

Social Commitment

In 2010 Falk Würfele founded the aid project “Pilots and Princesses” in Bucharest, Romania. The aim is to give street children a future and especially to give street girls a chance. "If the first gypsy girl becomes a pilot or a princess instead of a prostitute, then it was worth it," says Falk Würfele.

Publications

• 1998 Dice, liability and limitation of liability problems in the joint practice of lawyers, Kovac Verlag, ISBN 9783860649930 (dissertation)
• 2007 Bielefeld / Würfele, Building in the EU, ISBN 978-3-7643-7250-7
• 2011 Würfele, supplement management, 2nd edition, Luchterhand, ISBN 978-3-472-07931-6
• 2011 Würfele / Bielefeld / Gralla, building site supervision, 2nd edition, vieweg Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8348-1469-2

Contributions

• 2004 Wirth, legal basis for architects and engineers, vieweg Verlag
• 2005 Wirth, Darmstadt Construction Law Handbook, Würfele, Chapter: "Description of services and supplementary claims", Werner Verlag
• 2006 Yearbook Construction Law 2006, Kapellmann / Vygen (Hrsg.), Chapter: "Delayed construction time: additional payment according to § 2 No. 5 VOB / B or compensation according to § 6 No. 6 VOB / B", Werner Verlag
• 2007 Englert / Motzke / Wirth, Commentary on BGB construction contract law, Würfele, Chapter: "§§ 632, 632a BGB"
• 2008 Motzke, The Architect's Liability, Chapter Würfele, “The Architects' Association”, Werner Verlag
• 2010 Kuffer / Wirth, manual of the specialist lawyer for building and architectural law, 2nd edition, chapter Würfele "Description of services and supplementary claims"
• 2011 Gralla, innovations in construction, chapter cubes, international construction and energy projects, practical report
• 2011 VOB / C commentary, Fröhlich / Bielefeld, chapter cubes, legal classification of VOB / C

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage ARGE Construction and Real Estate Law of the DAV

Web links

• Literature by and about Falk Würfele in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of the law firm Würfele
• Falk Würfele on the website of the University of Siegen