Professional CV Dr. Donat Ebert
Born: 1968
Place of Birth: Duisburg, NRW, Germany
School: Finished with A-levels (Abitur), Landfermann-Gymnasium Duisburg 1987
Army: Compulsory Military Service 1987 – 1988
University:
Law Faculty, 1988 Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universität Trier 1989 – 1993, Rijks-Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands (Erasmus scholarship 1991 – 1992
University Degree: 1993 1. State exam in Law (“juristisches Staatsexamen“)
Further Studies:
1993 – 1994 research and teaching year at University of Miskolc, Hungary (Tempus Scholarship)
Practical Training: 1994 – 1996 County Court of Duisburg (Landgericht Duisburg)
Bar Exam: November 1996 (“2. Juristisches Staatsexamen”)
Admission to Bar: April 1997, Lawyers` Chamber in Düsseldorf
PhD-Degree:
2002, University of Miskolc, Hungary, doctor-thesis about the Hungarian Constitutional Court
Law Offices:
Offices in Budapest of Beiten Burkhardt Mittl & Wegener, Dessewffy Alice Law Office,
Rödl & Partner
Own Office in Budapest since 2004
Office in Fürstenwalde, Brandenburg since 2005, in cooperation with Law Office of Täschner & Schulzke
Since May 2018 return to my hometown Duisburg
opening of my own law-office in Duisburg, Northrhine-Westphalia
Full Admission to the Bar in Budapest in 2011
Other Assignments:
Responsibility for teaching EU-Law for Hungarian Judges and Prosecutors (1999 – 2004)
Head of Teaching EU-Law for Latvian Judges (2002 – 2004)
Training of Judges of Croatia in EU-Law (2006 – 2008)
Training of Judges and Prosecutors in Kosovo (2009 – 2012)
Specialisation: Since 2006 specialised in inheritance law and criminal defense
Cross-border cases, International Inheritance Law
War-Crimes (defense counsel in Kosovo before the International EULEX-Court in Prishtina, “Kleqka”-case, “Drenica”-case), 2013 – 2014
Representation of Jewish victims in Nazi-crime procedures (case “Gröning”, 2015, Landgericht Lüneburg, case „Hanning“, 2016, Landgericht Detmold, so-called „Auschwitz-cases“
Several hundred International Inheritance Cases since 2006
Experience before the European Courts in Strasbourg and Luxembourg
Languages:
German (native), professional level: English, Hungarian, some French, Latin (fluent)
Hobbies: MSV Duisburg, sports, reading