2022 to 2024
Active in own law firm “HAARMANN Law, Tax & Arbitration” in Kronberg i.T. (near Frankfurt/Main); temporarily working for approx. 1.5 days a week as managing director of a family-owned pharmaceutical and cosmetics company in Thuringia.
2019 to 2022
Partner at the US law firm McDermott Will & Emery with office in Frankfurt/Main.
2013 until the end of 2018
Partner at the English law firm Linklaters with an office in Frankfurt/Main.
2006 to 2013
Founding partner of HAARMANN Partnerschaftsgesellschaft in Frankfurt/Main.
1987 until the end of 2005
Founding partner of Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner, initially working in the Munich office (until July 1993), then in Frankfurt/Main (multidisciplinary law firm of lawyers, tax advisors and auditors with associated auditing and tax consulting company) with ultimately 9 offices in Germany and 14 offices outside Germany, 3 of them in East Asia.
Also lecturer at the University of Bamberg until 2000.
Appointed honorary professor at the University of Bamberg in 2000.
1979 to 1987
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co (now KPMG) with office in Munich, from 1983 as partner. During this time, appointed certified tax advisor and certified public auditor after passing examinations.
1977 to 1979
Arthur Young & Co (predecessor company of Ernst & Young) with office in Frankfurt/Main, appointment as lawyer.
1976 to 1977
Doctoral student in Münster (Westphalia); doctorate (Dr. jur.) in 1979.
1974 to 1976
Legal clerkship in Bielefeld; 2nd state examination at the Judicial Examination Office of the Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf.
1969 until the end of 1973
Studied law and business administration in Münster (Westphalia) and Freiburg (Breisgau). First state examination in law at the Judicial Examination Office at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm (Westphalia).
1968 to 1969
Military service in the air force (Pinneberg and Rheine-Hopsten).
1960 to 1968
Secondary school: Albrecht-Dürer-Gymnasium (school teaching ancient languages), Hagen (Westphalia).
1956 to 1960
Elementary school: Parkschule, Hagen (Westf.).
1950 to 1956
Birth and childhood in Hagen (Westf.).
German, married, one daughter, lives in Kronberg/Taunus, Hesse, Germany.