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02.09.2022
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Profile
Prof Dr Ulrich Ramsauer has been a lawyer and Of Counsel at GÖRG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB in Hamburg for more than 10 years. He provides comprehensive legal advisory services to national and international companies as well as the public sector. His expertise covers key areas such as environmental and planning law, administrative procedural and organisational law as well as constitutional law.
A further characteristic of Prof Dr Ramsauer is his deep roots in the legal community. For more than 30 years, he worked as a judge in various positions in the administrative courts, most recently as presiding judge at the Higher Administrative Court of Hamburg until 2013. He is the editor and author of the renowned standard commentary ‘Kopp/Ramsauer zum Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz’ and editor of the Zeitschrift für Öffentliches Recht in Norddeutschland (NördÖR). His numerous publications, particularly in the fields of environmental and planning law, construction law and administrative procedure and procedural law, help to shape and characterise the legal landscape.
Languages
German
English
Sectors
Public Sector Career
2013
GÖRG
Lawyer and Of Counsel
2009
Hamburg Bar Association
Awarded the von Sauer Prize of the HAV
2008-2013
Hamburg Higher Administrative Court
Presiding Judge of the 5th Senate of the court respon-sible for environmental law
2005-2014
University of Hamburg
Managing Director of the Seminar for Administrative Theory
1989-2005
Hamburg Constitutional Court
Deputy member of the Constitutional Court
1989-2008
Hamburg Administrative Court
Presiding Judge of Chamber 19 of the Court
1988
Environmental Law Research Centre at the University of Hamburg
Member of the Board of Directors
1986-1989
Hamburg Higher Administrative Court
Judge in the 5th Senate of the court
1981
University of Hamburg
Appointment as Professor of Public Law while retaining the office of judge
1980
University of Hamburg
Doctorate (topic: The factual impairments of property)
1976
Administrative judge in Hamburg
Universities of Tübingen and Hamburg
Study of law
Memberships and awards
Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer e.V. (Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers) (VVDStRL)
Research Center for Environmental Law at the University of Hamburg
Teaching award, University of Hamburg
Emil-von-Sauer Prize 20
Gesellschaft für Umweltrecht (Society for Environmental Law)
German section of the International Institute for Administrative Sciences
Lawyer of the Year 2025
Teaching activities and lectures
Since 1980 teaching at the University of Hamburg. Lectures in the field of building law, general administrative law, constitutional law, environmental law, in particular nature conservation law, as well as administrative theory, even beyond his retirement
Various presentations and seminars, as well as continuing professional development events for lawyers specialising in administrative law.
