Matthias Prinz

Matthias Prinz ( * 1956 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer, the press and media law, reputation protection, privacy, entertainment and sports law is known for his work in the fields.

Biography

The son of former chief editor of Bild newspaper and later the board of Axel Springer publishing house, Günter Prinz, graduated from the University of Hamburg Law. After he had there in 1980 his First State Exam stored, he initially worked at the Institute for International Private and Procedural Law at the University of Hamburg as an assistant of Professor Hein Kötz. Research was, inter alia, the economic analysis of law. After his residency Prince went to the USA and studied at the Harvard Law School. There he acquired in 1983 the academic degree Master of Laws ( LL.M.). Since 1997 he is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

Matthias Prinz is married to Alexandra of Rehlinger and has two sons and two daughters.

Legal profession

1984 Prince was admitted in New York State as a lawyer. He returned to Hamburg and received his PhD in 1985 with Prof. Hein Kötz, the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private and Procedural Law and later founding President of the Bucerius Law School. After Prince was subsequently admitted as a lawyer in Hamburg, he opened there with Sabine Neidhardt a firm in which 12 lawyers work today. The focus of the Law Office is located in the areas of media law, family and estate law and employment law.

A little later he was back by Julius Hackethal who was accused in Traunstein for euthanasia. In this process, he told of 1999 compared with the weekly newspaper Friday, he had to " deal with media law questions with questions of personal rights, and it more and more passion then became ". As a result, Prince became one of the best known media lawyers in Germany, to the world once described as " the avenger of annoyed ." Prince, who said of himself in an interview that he was " not so contentious " but just trying to find for his clients " reasonable solutions ", he managed some method successfully until the Federal Court, the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of to lead human rights.

1992 represented the first time Prince Princess Caroline of Monaco against paparazzi who pursued their little children, and against media from Europe and the ongoing invasion of privacy as well as fictional stories. He initiated a series of lawsuits against various European media, which led to precedents in the highest German courts and the European Court of Human Rights over the course of 20 years. These judgments are known as Caroline judgments.

Prince also represented German athletes, such as Boris Becker and German Bundesliga clubs, their coaches and players, as well as the T -Mobile cycling team and the German show jumping team. For Oliver Kahn sued Prince EA Sports, the manufacturer of the computer football game FIFA 2002, which took the name and character of the goalkeeper without his consent.

Prince now advises boards of directors and supervisory board chairman of German companies, especially Ferdinand Piëch, Klaus Kleinfeld, and Ron Sommer. He also advised the Sultan of Brunei during his state visit to the Federal Republic of Germany.

In 2003, Prince representation of the Swedish royal family because of violation of personal rights and defamatory articles in the German media. Prince forced 23 German Magazine counter-statements, retractions and apologies reprint on the front page. Compensation and principal allegations followed, which led to the decision of the Higher Regional Court, Princess Madeleine of Sweden award a record damages of € 400,000.00. An appeal of the convicted media company was dismissed by the Federal Court in 2010.

Matthias Prinz has published articles on media law, privacy protection, Litigation PR and media strategies. He is co- author of the work Prinz / Peters: media law. Since 1996, Prince students taught at the Free University of Berlin ( Freie Universität Berlin) on media law and privacy protection.

Publications

• Matthias Prinz, Butz Peters: Media Law - The civil rights; Beck Verlag, 1999; ISBN 3-406-44853-4