Organisation

Please find an organisational chart of the Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung here.

Management

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Reinhard Zimmermann

President

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Mittelweg 187
20148 Hamburg, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)40 / 41900 – 401
Fax: +49 (0)40 / 41900 – 402
E-mail: r.zimmermann@mpipriv.de

Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Jürgen Schwarze

Vice-President

University of Freiburg
Institute of Public Law: Department 1 (European and International Law)
Platz der Alten Synagoge 1
79098 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)761 / 203 – 2126/2251
Fax: +49 (0)761 / 203 –2127/2234
E-mail: juergen.schwarze@jura.uni-freiburg.de

Prof. Dr. Martin Schmidt-Kessel
Secretary general

Office:

Judith Zölke
Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung e. V.
Belfortstraße 16
79098 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)761 / 203 – 2126
Fax: +49 (0)761 / 203 – 2127
E-mail: gfr@jura.uni-freiburg.de

Secretary general:

University of Bayreuth
Faculty of Law and Economics
Chair for German and European Consumer Law and Private Law as well as Comparative Law
95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55 – 6121
Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55 – 6122
E-mail: ls-schmidt-kessel@uni-bayreuth.de

 
Professional groups

1. Section for Fundamentals (Method, Comparative Legal History, Ethnology of Law)

• Prof. Dr. Dr. Stefan Grundmann, LL.M
  Head of section
• Prof. Dr. Jan Thiessen
  Section secretary
  
  Humboldt University of Berlin, Law Faculty
  Unter den Linden 6
  10099 Berlin, Germany
  Phone: +49 (0)30 / 2093 – 3337
  Fax: +49 (0)30 / 2093 – 3338
  E-mail: jan.thiessen@rewi.hu-berlin.de

2. Section for Comparative Civil Law

• Prof. Dr. Martin Gebauer
  Head of section
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Huber, LL.M.
  Section secretary
  
  Eberhard Karls University, Law Faculty
  Geschwister-Scholl-Platz
  72074 Tübingen, Germany
  Phone: +49 (0)7071 / 29 – 74353
  E-mail: s.huber@uni-tuebingen.de

3. Section for Comparative Public Law

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• Prof. Dr. Uwe Kischel, LL.M.
  Head of section
• Prof. Dr. Sebastian Graf von Kielmansegg
  Section secretary
  
  Kiel University
  Institute for Public Business Law
  Leibnizstraße 2
  24118 Kiel, Germany
  Phone: +49 (0)431 / 880 – 1668
  E-mail: skielmansegg@law.uni-kiel.de

4. Section for Comparative Criminal Law

• Prof. Dr. Bettina Weißer
  Head of section
• Prof. Dr. Anna H. Albrecht
  Section secretary
  
  University of Potsdam, Law Faculty
  August-Bebel-Straße 89
  14482 Potsdam, Germany
  Phone: +49 (0)331 / 977 – 3783
  Fax: +49 (0)331 / 977 – 70 – 3783
  E-mail: anna.albrecht@uni-potsdam.de

5. Section for Comparative Commercial and Business Law

• Prof. Dr. Peter Jung
  Head of section
• Dr. Tizian Troxler, LL.M.
  Section secretary
  
  University of Basel, Faculty of Law
  Chair of Prof. Dr. Peter Jung
  Peter Merian-Weg 8, P.O. Box
  4002 Basel, Switzerland
  Phone: +41 (0)61 / 2070504
  Fax: +41 (0)61 / 2070498
  E-mail: Tizian.Troxler@unibas.ch

6. Section for European Law

• Prof. Dr. Armin Hatje – Chairman of the Scientific Society for European Law
  Head of section
• Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter-Christian Müller-Graff, MAE
  Section secretary
  
  Heidelberg University
  Institute for German and European Company and Economic Law
  Friedrich-Ebert-Platz 2
  69117 Heidelberg, Germany
  Phone: +49 (0)6221 / 54 – 7595
  Fax: +49 (0)6221 / 54 – 7655
  E-mail: p.mueller-graff@igw.uni-heidelberg.de

7. Section for Comparative Labour and Social Law

• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Becker, LL.M.
  Head of section
• Prof. Dr. Achim Seifert
  Section secretary
  
  Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Faculty of Law
  Chair of Civil Law, German and European Labour Law and Comparative Law
  07737 Jena, Germany
  Phone: +49 (0)3641 / 9 – 42131
  Fax: +49 (0)3641 / 9 – 42132
  ​E-mail: ls-seifert@uni-jena.de