Dr. Uta Wiedenfels, LL.M.
Senior Associate, certified attourney in commercial and corporate law
Dr. Uta Wiedenfels, EMLE, studied law and economics (intermediate diploma) in Freiburg and Berlin. She then completed an English-language master's degree in economic legal analysis in Bologna and Madrid and graduated with the European Master of Law & Economics (EMLE).
She was admitted to the bar in 2008 and initially worked as an attorney at law in various commercial law firms, in Frankfurt am Main with Schiedermair Rechtsanwälte and in Berlin with GSK Stockmann + Kollegen, focusing on commercial and corporate law as well as real estate law. From 2010-2017 she worked as assistant professor at the chair of Prof. Dr. Rainer Schröder in real estate law and researched, among other things, the history of the GDR. In June 2015, she received her doctorate with her dissertation on the legal history of open property issues. Parallel to her academic work, Dr. Wiedenfels continued to work as a (self-employed) lawyer. She joined HuP in March 2017.
Education and training:
Intermediate diploma in Economics 2002, Master of Law & Economics (Università di Bologna) 2005
Legal state exams in Berlin 2004 and 2007
Admission to the bar 2008
Doctorate (Dr. iur.) by the Faculty of Law of the Humboldt University of Berlin 2015
Professional background:
Schiedermair Lawyers, Frankfurt am Main 2008-2009
GSK Stockmann + Kollegen, Berlin 2009-2010
Chair of Civil Law, Private Building and Real Estate Law as well as Modern and Contemporary Legal History (Prof. Dr. Rainer Schröder), Humboldt University Berlin, 2010-2017
Hahn und Partner Attorneys at Law, Berlin since 2017
The Property Law - Restitution in a Changing Era: The Open Property Issues after Reunification (Berliner Juristische Universitätsschriften: Grundlagen des Rechts)
Berlin 2019, also dissertation Humboldt University Berlin 2015
Open asset questions. Anspruch und Wirklichkeit, in: Haferkamp, Hans-Peter/Thiessen, Jan/Waldhoff, Christian (Ed.), German Dictatorial Right Histories? Perspectives on the Legal History of the GDR. Memorial Symposium for Rainer Schröder (1947-2016), Tübingen 2018, pp. 109-123.
Deletion of a false list of shareholders
juris, attorney HaGesR 14/2017, together with Dr. Nicco Hahn
Rainer Schröder in collaboration with Hartmut Liebs, Uta Wiedenfels, Angela Klopsch, Valesca Molinari, expert opinion for the Enquiry Commission "Coming to terms with the history and coping with the consequences of the SED dictatorship and the transition to a democratic constitutional state in the State of Brandenburg", published on the website of the Brandenburg State Parliament on Enquiry Commission 5/1
Rainer Schröder, Angela Klopsch, Uta Wiedenfels, Property law in the GDR - origin and consequences, in: 25 years as a freelance notary public in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, ed. v. Notarkammer Brandenburg / Notarbund Brandenburg e. / Notarkammer Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Notarbund Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V. / Notarkammer Sachsen / Sächsischer Notarbund e.V. / Notarkammer Sachsen-Anhalt / Notarbund Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. / Notarkammer Thüringen / Thüringer Notarbund e.V. / Landesotarkasse A.d.ö.R, S. 345-374.