Prof. Dr. Joachim Hennrichs
Prof. Dr. Joachim Hennrichs has held the Chair of Civil Law, Accounting and Tax Law since March 2003. He is also Co-Director of the Institute for Corporate Law and, since October 2022, Managing Director of the Institute for Sustainability, Corporate Law and Reporting (INUR).
Short vita
Prof. Dr. Joachim Hennrichs was born in 1965 in Polch in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1984, he obtained his general higher education entrance qualification at the Kurfürst-Balduin Gymnasium Münstermaifeld and began studying law at the University of Mainz in 1985, which he completed in 1990 with the 1st state examination. In 1994, Prof. Dr. Joachim Hennrichs received his doctorate in law from the University of Mainz with a thesis supervised by his academic teacher Walther Hadding. His habilitation followed with a thesis on accounting law, also at the University of Mainz in 1998.
After holding professorships at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Potsdam, he was appointed to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (now the University of Münster) at the beginning of 2000. From March 2000 to February 2003, he held the professorship for Civil Law and Banking Law. In March 2003, he finally moved to the University of Cologne, where he has since held the Chair of Civil Law, Accounting and Tax Law. He is also Co-Director of the Institute for Corporate Law and, since October 2022, Managing Director of the Institute for Sustainability, Corporate Law and Reporting (INUR).
Prof. Dr. Hennrichs is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Finance and numerous other scientific working groups. He is married and has two children.
You can find the list of publications of Prof. Dr. Joachim Hennrichs as PDF here.
Teaching qualification
Prof. Dr. Hennrichs is authorized to teach civil law, German and European commercial and corporate law, and tax law.
Main Areas of Research
- Sustainability - Reporting, Corporate Due Diligence, Corporate Governance, Finance and Taxation.
- Accounting law and other legal aspects of auditing, financial and non-financial reporting.
- Corporate law.
- Income and corporate tax law, in particular the law of taxable profit determination and taxation for partnerships and corporations.
Co-Editorships
- Handbuch des Jahresabschlusses
- Münchener Kommentar Bilanzrecht und BeckOGK.Bilanzrecht
- Neue Zeitschrift für Gesellschaftsrecht (NZG)
- Der Konzern (Herausgeberbeirat)
- Steuer und Wirtschaft (StuW)
- Tipke/Lang, Steuerrecht
- Zeitschrift für materielles und prozessuales Klimaschutzrecht (KlimaRZ)
- Fachzeitschrift für Nachhaltigkeit und Recht (ESGZ)
Academic roles
- University Professor
- Chair of Civil Law, Accounting Law, and Tax Law at the University of Cologne
- Co-founder and Executive Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainability, Corporate Law, and Reporting (INUR)
- Director of the Institute for Corporate Law (Division 2: Corporations, Accounting Law) at the University of Cologne
- Associate Dean for Planning, Finance, and Equal Opportunity
- Member of the Rector’s Commission for Ensuring Good Academic Practice
- Member of the Sustainability Council at the University of Cologne
Academic working groups and advisory board roles
Prof. Dr. Joachim Hennrichs is a member of the following working groups and academic associations, among others:
- Advisory Board Positions
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF).
- Advisory Board Member of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich.
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Tax Law Society (DStJG) e.V.
- Scientific Working Groups
- Working Group on Accounting Law for University Law Professors (Chair).
- Working Group on External Corporate Accounting of the Schmalenbach Society for Business Administration (AKEU).
- Discussion Group on International Accounting Law (Chair).
- Tax Committee (IDW) (until the end of 2021).
- Working Group on Partnerships (IDW) (2011 to the end of 2021).
- Main Committee (HFA) of the IDW (2014 to 2018).
- Academic Associations
- German Tax Law Society (Deutsche Steuerjuristische Gesellschaft e.V.)
- Professional Institute of Tax Advisors (Fachinstitut der Steuerberater e.V.)
- Corporate Law Association – Academic Association for Corporate and Commercial Law (VGR) e.V.
- Schmalenbach Society for Business Administration (Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaftslehre e.V.)
- Association of Civil Law Professors.
- German Lawyers’ Day.