Prof. Dr. Holm Putzke, LL.M. (Kraków)

Of Counsel · Criminal law · Criminal procedure

Holm Putzke has held a professorship in criminal law at the University of Passau since 2010. Since 2016 he has also been an extraordinary professor of criminal law, criminal procedure and economic criminal law at EBS University for Business and Law in Wiesbaden, and since 2023 a visiting professor at Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul.

He studied law at Ruhr University Bochum, completing his first state examination in 1997 and the second in 2002, and received his doctorate from Ruhr University in 2003. Jagiellonian University in Kraków awarded him the LL.M. degree in 2009.

He has worked as a consultant for the EU and OSCE in Estonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kazakhstan, and as an expert for the German Bundestag and the Bavarian State Parliament. Alongside his academic work he practises as a criminal defence lawyer and is a judge and deputy chairman of the Federal Sports and Arbitration Court of the Bund Deutscher Radfahrer e.V.

Education & Bar Admission

  • Ruhr University Bochum, Law; Dr. iur. (2003)
  • Jagiellonian University, Kraków, LL.M. (2009)

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