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 LL.M. Born in May 1948 in Weißenfels/Saale, German citizenship Managing Partner, lawyer, membership and occupations in several German - Japanese Business Associations (German Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Japan, Tokyo, German-Japanese Lawyers Association, Hamburg, Japanese-German Society for Legal Studies, Tokyo, European Business Council (EBC), Investment Committee, Tokyo). |
Member of various supervisory boards and boards of directors (R. Stahl K. K., Kawasaki, Mathai Japan K.K, Tokyo, ISPA Consult (Japan) Ltd., Tokyo, Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems Japan, Ltd., Tokyo, Coperion K.K., Tokyo, SIMT, Stuttgart)
Job History
1997 till today
Lawyer in Munich and Augsburg
1995 - 1997
Lawyer at Dr. Schiffer & Partner in Munich
1994 till today
Managing Director and President of Dr. Neumann & Partner, Tokyo
1989 - 1994
Managing Director of SLS Japan Consult, Ltd., Tokyo
1989 - 1994
Lawyer at Sigle, Loose, Schmidt-Diemitz & Partner in Stuttgart
1988 - 1989
Lawyer at Coudert Brothers
(Stevens Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi Jimusho), Tokyo
1987-1989
Lawyer at Dr. Matthias Scheer in Hamburg
1982 - 1987
Head of the Legal Department, German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Japan, Tokyo (DIHKJ), from May 16th, 1986 additionally Vice President DIHKJ
1981 -1985
Lawyer at Bollmann, Kiesselbach & Partner in Hamburg
Avocation
Arbitrator (The Japan Commercial Arbitration Association, JCAA, Tokyo, International Court of Arbitration/ International Chamber of Commerce, ICC, Paris, German Institution of Arbitration, DIS, Cologne/Berlin, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, HKIAC, Hong Kong)
1992-1993
Lecturer in German and EC Law at the universities of Aoyama Gakuin University, College of Law, Tokyo, and Yokohama National University, Graduate School of International and Business Law, Yokohama
1989-1990
Lecturer in German Law at Osaka University, Fculty of Law
1981-1982
Lecturer in Japanese Law, Hamburg University
Education
1968 -1973
Legal and Japanese Studies at the University of Munich
1974 -1978
Scholarship obtained from the German Academic Exchange Service and the Japanese Government to study Japanese and Japanese Law in Osaka, Japan
1974 - 1976
Research Scholar at the National Osaka University and preparation for Ph.D.
1976 - 1978
Research Scholar at the National Osaka University and preparation for Ph.D.
1978 - 1980
Legal Trainee at the Higher Law Court in Hamburg, Germany
1982
Received Ph.D. from Hamburg University with a thesis on “Constitutional Change in Japan”
Industries and Topics
- International Co-operations with Japan
- International law
- Japanese and German constitutional, administrative and corporate law, as well as politics, history and economy
