Notary Dr. Kohler - Your Notary in Hamburg-Bergedorf
Studies and Referendariat
Oct. 1993 – July 1998
Studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg;
First State Examination in Law
Oct. 1993 – July 1994
Studied Chinese language and culture
Oct. 2001 – Oct. 2003
Legal traineeship; Second State Examination in Law
Doctorate
Oct. 1
Dissertation on the topic “The Development of Swedish Civil Procedure Law
– A Reception-Historical Structural Analysis of the Foundations of Modern Swedish Civil Procedure Law” (Mohr/Siebeck, Tübingen 2002)
Foreign Degrees
August 2003 – June 2004
LL.M. studies at Harvard Law School, USA
July 2004
Bar Exam New York (sworn in as Attorney-at-Law at the Supreme Court of New York in January 2005)
Scientific Activity
Nov. 1994 – March 1997
Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Albin Eser, M.C.J. at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg
June 2001 – Aug. 2003
Research Associate to Prof. Dr. Rolf Stürner at the Institute for German and Foreign Civil Procedure Law, Freiburg
Nov. 1994 – Aug. 2003
Head of numerous working groups at the University of Freiburg in the fields of civil law, public law, and criminal law
Professional Activity
Jan. 2005 – Dec. 2005
Attorney at Law at the law firm GLEISS LUTZ in Stuttgart and Frankfurt, specializing in M&A and corporate law
Jan. 2006
appointed Notary Candidate
Jan. 2007 – Sept. 2007
Second to the Federal Chamber of Notaries; Head of the Department for Notarial Professional Law; Press Spokesperson for the Federal Chamber of Notaries
Oct. 2007 – Dec. 2010
Head of the Permanent Representation of the Federal Chamber of Notaries in Brussels
March 2008 – Dec. 2010
Managing Director of the Federal Chamber of Notaries
Since January 2011
Notary Public in Hamburg
Jan. 2018 – Dec. 2018
President of the European Notaries Association in Brussels (CNUE)
Awards and Scholarships
May 1991
First place in the state-wide classical languages competition Certamen Carolinum
June 1991 – July 1998
German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
Sept. 1999 – Aug. 2001
Doctoral scholarship through the Baden-Württemberg State Graduate Program
March 2000 – May 2001
DAAD scholarship for a one-year research stay at Uppsala University, Sweden
Feb. 2002
Scholarship from the Freiburg Scientific Society for the publication of the dissertation
Feb. 2003
Rotteck Prize for the best legal dissertation at the University of Freiburg in 2002
June 2003
Hauser Global Scholarship at NYU in New York (rejected)
July 2003
Bucerius Law Scholarship for an LL.M. program at Harvard Law School
July 2003
Harvard Law School scholarship