Wolfgang Zöllner

Wolfgang Zöllner (born December 31, 1928 in Marktredwitz ) is a German legal scholar .

Career

Zöllner began studying law at the University of Munich in 1948, graduating in 1952 with the first state examination in law. In 1953 he was at Alfred Hueck with a thesis on share capital and shareholding in the transformation of a company into a limited liability company to Dr. iur. PhD. After the second state examination in 1956, Zöllner became a research assistant to Alfred Hueck, with whom he completed his habilitation in 1960 (title of the habilitation thesis: The barriers to membership voting power in private law associations ). In 1963 he followed a call to the University of Mainz and in 1966 moved to the University of Cologne . From 1969 he taught at the University of Tübingen until his retirement in 1997 .

As the author of numerous articles, books and commentaries, Zöllner has played a key role in shaping the law of stock corporations and GmbHs as well as labor law over the past decades. He has been an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens since 2001 . Ulrich Noack is one of his students .

Publications (selection)

• The limits of membership voting power in private law associations . Beck, Munich 1963.
• Securities law . 14th edition, Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-30925-9
• (founded by Adolf Baumbach , continued by Alfred Hueck) 18th edition by Wolfgang Zöllner and Lorenz Fastrich: GmbH law . 18th edition, Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3406522826

literature

• Hermann Reichold , Wolfgang Zöllner on his 80th birthday , NJW , 2009, 42.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Zöllner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data from Wolfgang Zöllner in: Wer ist Wer - Das deutsche Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 1582, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .