Professional career:
- 1985 -1990: law degree course at University of Hamburg University, Faculty of Law II;
- 1986 -1990: fellowship of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation;
- 1990: first state examination;
- 1990: legal assistant of the law firm Passman & Jones, Dallas, Texas (USA);
- 1990 -1992: academic assistant at University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law II; chair of Professor Stefan Smid;
- March 1992: doctorate at University of Hamburg; award of title of doctor of law;
- 1993: second state examination;
- 1992-1994: personal adviser of the branch manager of the Trust Agency, Schwerin branch, Dipl.-Ing., Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Karl-Heinz Rüsberg and adviser of Contractual Settlement Departments in Schwerin and Halle/Saale;
- 1994: law firm PLUTA & KNORR, Ulm/ Leipzig;
- Since 1994 activity as expert, insolvency administrator, sequestrator, extraordinary managing director and liquidator for courts in Brandenburg, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Sachsen-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein.
- since September 2000: specialist lawyer for insolvency law ;
Lecture activity:
- 1994: Part-time lecturer at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg;
- 1995: Part-time lecturer at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law II;
- 2000: Speaker at training of specialist lawyers for insolvency law at German Lawyers' Institute, Bochum;
- since 2006: Part-time lecturer at Law Faculty of the Christian Albrecht Universit of Kiel
- Lectures on insolvency and reorganisation law for various associations (e.g. Creditreform, FORUM Institut für Management, Schuldnerberatungen etc.)
Publications:
- 129 ff. InsO (contestation), W.Kohlhammer Publishing, Stuttgart 2nd edition 2001. ISBN 3-17-016646-8;
- "Reform der Zustellung insolvenzgerichtlicher Entscheidungen und des Rechts der Insolvenzanfechtung" (Reform of the delivery of insolvency court decisions and the right of insolvency contestation), in Große Insolvenzrechtsreform 2006 (Major insolvency law reform 2006), in Synopsen - Gesetzesmaterialien - Stellungnahmen - Kritik (Synopses - legal materials - opinions - criticism); edited by Smid, Stefan; with contributions by Houben, André / Smid, Stefan / Wehdeking, Silke / Zeuner, Mark; June 2006, 271 pages; ISBN 3-89949-332-X; DE GRUYTER LAW.
- Die Anfechtung in der Insolvenz. Ein Handbuch - unter Einbezug des AnfG (Contestation in insolvency. A handbook - taking AnfG into account) 1999. 2nd edition Munich 2007. 318 pages - ISBN 978-3406526923;
Essays:
- "Die Restschuldbefreiung ist eingeführt - Ein Beitrag zum interlokalen Recht der alten und neuen Bundesländer" (Discharge of residual debt has been introduced - a contribution to interlocal law of the old and new federal states), in BB 1991 Supplement Deutsche Einigung - Rechtsentwicklungen (Supplement German unification - legal developments), issue 23, 10 ff.;
- "Privatisierungsverträge der Treuhandanstalt in der Gesamtvollstreckung ehemaliger Treuhandunternehmen" (Privatisation agreements of the trust agency in collective execution of former trust companies), in ZIP 1993, 1365 ff.;
- "Die Rechtsprechung der Oberlandesgerichte zum Anfechtungsrecht im Jahre 2006" (Court rulings of higher regional courts on contestation law in 2006), in NZI 2007, 369;
Annotations (excerpt):
- Annotation to District Court Erfurt, decision of 19.3.1992 (1 U 68/91) (ZIP 1992,1112 = WM 1992,2071) in Entscheidungen zum Wirtschaftsrecht (Decisions on commercial law) (EWiR) 1993,49 ff.;
- Annotation to Higher District Court Naumburg, decision of 22.9.1993 (4 W 102/93) (ZIP 1993,1573) in EWiR 1994,461;
- Annotation to District Court Berlin, decision of 23.9.1993 (9 O 278/92) (ZIP 1994,1320) in EWiR 1994,937;
- Annotation to Higher District Court Dresden, decision of 21.1.2001 (13 W 1650/00) (DZWIR 2001, 380 ff.) in DZWIR 2001, 382 f.;
- Annotation to Higher District Court Hamm, verdict of 4.9.2001 (27 U 34/01) (DZWIR 2002, 68 ff.) in DZWIR 2002, 72 f.;
- Annotation to Higher District Court Saarbrücken, decision of 30.11.2004 - 4 U 277/04, in jursPR-InsR 1/2005, Annotation 6
- Annotation to Higher District Court Frankfurt, decision of 16.09.2004 - 3 U 205/03, in jurisPR- InsR 4/2005, Annotation 1
- Annotation to Federal Supreme Court, decision 7.07.2005 - III ZR 422/04, in jurisPR- InsR 15/2005, Annotation 2
- Annotation to Federal Supreme Court, decision of 2.02.2006 - IX ZB 167/04, in jurisPR-InsR 10/2006, Annotation 1 - Annotation to Federal Supreme Court, decision of 2.02.2006 - IX ZR 78/04, in jurisPR-InsR 11/2006, Annotation 3
- Annotation to Federal Supreme Court, decision of 11.1.2007 - IX ZR 31/05, in DZWIR 2007, 250 ff.
Memberships:
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Insolvenzrecht und Sanierung im Deutschen Anwaltverein (Working Group for Insolvency Law and Reorganisation in the German Lawyers' Association)
- Arbeitskreis für Insolvenz- und Schiedgerichtswesen e.V., Köln (Working Group for Insolvency and Arbitral Tribunals, Cologne)
- Bankrechtliche Vereinigung - Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Bankrecht e.V. (Banking Law Association - Academic Society for Banking Law)
- Hamburgischer Anwaltverein e.V. (Hamburg Lawyers' Association)
- Herausgeberbeirat Deutsche Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht & Insolvenzrecht, Berlin (Publishers' Advisory Board for the German Journal of Commercial Law and Insolvency Law)
- INSOL EUROPE, The European Organisation for Insolvency Professionals
- Co-author of the "juris PraxisReport Insolvenzrecht" (juris PraxisReport on Insolvency Law), edited by Dr Klaus Wimmer and Professor Stefan Smid
- Co-editor of the "Schriften zum deutschen, europäischen und internationalen Insolvenzrecht" (Writings on German, European and International Legal Studies), published by De Gruyter Rechtswissenschaften Verlags-GmbH, Berlin
- Member of the joint examination board for the federal states of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and Schleswig Holstein for the second legal state examination
- Norddeutsches Insolvenzforum Hamburg e.V. (North German Insolvency Forum Hamburg)
- Verband der Insolvenzverwalter Deutschlands e.V. (Association of the Insolvency Administrators of Germany) - Wustrauer Arbeitskreis Insolvenzrecht e.V (Wustrau Working Group on Insolvency Law)
- Second examiner for the major subject examination of the Law Faculty of the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel