Team

Bernhard Böhm studied law at the Universities of Gießen and Leipzig. He completed his bar examination in Saxony and at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. In addition, he studied postgraduate social behavioral sciences with a focus on industrial and organizational psychology as well as environmental psychology. His training as a mediator included further studies in mediation at University Hagen with a focus on business mediation and mediation in the public sector. Furthermore, Bernhard Böhm is one of the first graduates with the academic degree "Master of Mediation" in Germany. He also completed training as a supervisor.

• Editor of the professional journal " Die Mediation".
• Advisory board of the journal European Review for Alternative Conflict Solution and Dispute-Resolution (ERADR)
• Editor of the series on the theory and practice of mediation published by Schneider-Verlag
• Co-author of "Einvernehmlich planen und bauen" published by Steinbeis Edition
• Co-author of "Financial Communication - Opportunities through Credit Mediation" published by Bank-Verlag
• Regular author of articles in various professional journals

• Appointment as mediator of the Mediation and Conciliation Board of the Leipzig Chamber of Industry and Commerce
• Founding member and long-standing board member of the Steinbeis Mediationsforum e.V.
• Board member of the Extrajudicial Dispute Resolution Body for Consumers and Entrepreneurs e.V.
• Forum for Business Mediation e.V., Hof Trages near Frankfurt/Main
• Member of the German Association for Mediation DGM
• Working Group for Mediation in the German Bar Association

• German
• English

Igor Dragobetski studied law with a focus on corporate law and taxation at the University of Berlin. During his law studies, he worked in a corporate tax office in Berlin. After his first law exam, he worked as a management assistant of a trading company operating throughout Europe, particularly in the import and export of machine tools from and to Russia. After completing his bar exam, he worked for an established and well-known tax firm and public notaries in Berlin. Igor Dragobetski is a specialist attorney for IT law.

Member of the IT Law Working Group of the German Bar Association (davit)

• German
• English
• Russian

Markus Hoffmann-von Wolffersdorff studied law at the University of Leipzig with a focus on private international law. He completed his bar exam in Saxony with studies at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer and an internship at the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce in Mumbai, India. After his bar exam, he completed an education as business mediator. Markus Hoffmann-von Wolffersdorff worked as an attorney for the well-known law firm Brandi Dröge Piltz Heuer & Gronemeyer and he was a partner of the law firm Dorschner & Hoffmann for more than a decade.  Markus Hoffmann-von Wolffersdorff has successfully completed his education as specialized advocate for company and trade law.

• Author and editor of the "Business Guide India" published by Bundesanzeiger Verlag.
• Author of numerous articles on the subject of India and foreign trade in the magazine "Wirtschaft" of the Leipzig Chamber of Commerce and Industry

• Head of German-Indian-Round Table in Saxony
• Co-head of a working group of Indo-German Green Hydrogen Task Force
• Board member Indo-German Advocates Association e.V.
• Member of Foreign Trade Committee of the Leipzig Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Member of Wirtschaftsclub Leipzig e.V.
• Chairman of Association Church of Dehlitz conservation e.V.

• German
• English

Ernst Henning Knigge studied law at the Universities of Leipzig, Halle-Wittenberg and Leuven (Belgium) with a focus on European law. After completion of his law study, he obtained the academic degree of Master of European Law (LL.M. Eur.) He completed his bar exam in Lower-Saxony, Saxony and Brussels with a focus on European Law. Prior to his law study, Ernst Henning Knigge completed an education as a bank clerk at Deutsche Bank AG after internships in the USA and Great Britain. Ernst Henning Knigge is a trained and certified mediator and data protection officer. Before practicing law, Ernst Henning Knigge was an accredited assistant at the European Parliament for several years. In this capacity, he advised decision-makers in politics and business and supported the development of economy and culture in the Central German region.

• Board Member Stadtbaukultur Leipzig e.V.

• German
• English
• French

Wolfgang Völger studied chemistry at Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and materials science at Darmstadt Technical University. The topic of his PhD was polymer ceramics and sol-gel chemistry at Darmstadt Technical University. During his doctoral studies, he spent several months on a scholarship at the Japan Fine Ceramic Center in Nagoya, Japan. Subsequently, he worked as R&D manager in an industry-related research institute. He completed his education as a patent attorney in Munich with a renowned patent law firm as well as at the German Patent and Trademark Office in Munich, the Federal Patent Court in Munich and the District Court in Mannheim. He is also a European Patent Attorney, European Trademark and Design Attorney and a serving patent attorney in Austria. Wolfgang Völger was a partner of the Völger & Behrens Patent- und Rechtsanwälte in Darmstadt for several years.

Author of several articles in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, the Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan and the journals Macromolecules, Angewandte Chemie and Chemistry of Materials.

• Chamber of Patent Attorneys
• Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office epi
• Austrian Chamber of Patent Attorneys
• Association of Intellectual Property Professionals (VPP)
• German Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright (GRUR)
• Chamber concerts in the hunting lodge Bickenbach e.V.
• German Society for the Rescue of Castaways (DGzRS)

• German
• English

Antje Grebel studied general mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Clausthal. During her studies at the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) in Stockholm, she focused on acoustics and vibration theory, which she maintained during her studies at the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt and her diploma thesis at the Fraunhofer Institut für Bauphysik. Her PhD was also focused on acoustics and vibration theory, were she worked together with the Department of System Reliability, Adaptronics and Machine Acoustics at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Prior to her education as a European Patent Attorney, Antje Grebel already worked as a technical assistant for KNPP.

Author and co-author of several conference papers at the annual meeting of German acousticians DAGA. The results of her dissertation were also used for an article in the journal "The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America" JASA.

• Association of German Engineers (VDI)
• German Society for Acoustics e.V.
• German Alpine Club

• German
• English