Norbert Geng (born 1965) is a German

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and professor of special business law.

Biography

Geng studied law at University of Würzburg and completed his legal clerkship from 1994 to 1995. He worked as an editorial journalist for the ''WISO-Steuerbrief'' ( ZDF) and afterwards as a lawyer in

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for four years before he became

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of the HUK-Coburg insurance group. In 2000 he graduated at the University of Jena with his conferral of a doctorate about "Ausgleich und Abfindung der Minderheitsaktionäre der beherrschten Aktiengesellschaft bei Verschmelzung und Spaltung" (''" Chargeback and compensation of the minority

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s of the controlled

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during

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and splitting."''). Since 2002 he has been professor at the faculty of commercial law at the

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. Geng is member of the

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and adheres to the

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. In 2010, he became co-president of the Party of Reason (pdv). He resides in Grünsfeld.Eine Partei gegen den Verdruss
, Südwest Presse, 26 March 2011.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Geng, Norbert 1965 births University of Würzburg alumni German legal scholars 20th-century German lawyers Party of Reason politicians 21st-century German politicians Living people