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