Gerrit Hölzle

Practice Areas

Prof Dr Gerrit Hölzle specialises in insolvency administration, acting as an administrator, trustee and in an executive role in self-administration procedures. He also advises companies in crisis situations. He manages our offices in Bremen and Hanover, and has worked throughout the country.

Career

Prof Dr Gerrit Hölzle is a partner at GÖRG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB and has been head of the Insolvency Administration Department.

Before that, he worked in his own law firm for ten years after graduating from the University of Würzburg as the best of his year. Gerrit Hölzle received his doctorate from the University of Cologne with a thesis on tax law models for the acquisition and transformation of companies under Prof Dr Joachim Lang. In 2011 he habilitated at the University of Bremen on a legal economics topic. In 2019, Gerrit Hölzle was appointed Honorary Professor of Civil Law, Commercial and Corporate Law, Insolvency and Tax Law by the University of Bremen as a result of his academic and practical achievements.

He has been a lawyer since 2002 and an insolvency administrator since 2004.

In addition to his practical awards, e.g. in WirtschaftsWoche and in JUVE, Prof Dr Gerrit Hölzle also has a number of publications to his name in professional journals, commentaries and handbooks, as an outstanding expert in insolvency law.

Professional Memberships

Institut für Handelsrecht an der Universität Bremen (Institute for Commercial Law at the University of Bremen)

ARGE Insolvenzrecht im DAV (Insolvency Law Working Group at the DAV)

Verband der Insolvenzverwalter Deutschlands (VID) (Registered Association of German lnsolvency Administrators)

Forum 270 e.V.

Norddeutsches Insolvenzforum (NIF) (Northern Germany Insolvency Forum)

Deutsche Steuerjuristische Gesellschaft (DStJG) (German Taxation Law Society)

Deutsche Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung (German Association of Civil Law Tutors)

Languages Spoken

German, English