Christof Wieschemann

Lawyer Christof Wieschemann
 
 
About me:
Born in 1962, married, 4 children.
“The law was not placed in my cradle. Grown up in a humanistic parental home with a brilliant and straight-forward father, who couldn’t do anything with right-hand twisters. Moderately engaged in school, today I would say efficiently. Early encounter with Kurt Tucholsky, who wanted to become a criminal defender, earned a doctorate in mortgage law and then defended the republic and sincerity as a journalist and political author. Impressed me. I knew I wanted to be a lawyer too, I was 16. Enthusiasm and passion for the scientific side of the law was not immediately created at the Ruhr University in Bochum, but in good time. In the second State examination only 10% of the graduates of the year in Germany were better. The fact that I took my time and my parents gave me time to deal with philosophy, psychology and economics at the university was therefore not wrong.
The passion to penetrate and solve a problem still drives me. Sports law, at the beginning of 1996/97 more object of scientific work than of economic importance, has made me very important. Otherwise, no other area of my jurisdiction would have led me through the whole of Europe to Trabzon to the Black Sea coast, to La Coruna to the Atlantic coast, to Cyprus or Copenhagen, or to get to know people from all parts of the continent, some of whom have become my clients and a few friends too. “
 
Lawyer Wieschemann advises individuals, freelancers, as well as small and medium-sized companies in all over Germany in all aspects of business law, in cooperation with other companies, restructuring, crisis intervention, and on issues of competition law and the intellectual property law. The tax law was already the main subject of his university education. He has his thoughts not only legitimacy, but also on an expedience point of view to orientate, in addition a safe collection of economics and business management skills.
In addition, international sports law and international arbitration have been a focal point of work for 20 years with clients in all countries of Europe, but also in the USA, Mexico, Russia and Turkey.
 

Practice

1993                Counsel at Henn & Jez Köhne Lawyers

since 1994        Independent lawyer in sport law and business & commercial law, trademarks, management consultancy

1998                Foundation of WIESCHEMANNN | Lawyers

since 2013        Member of executive board of sport law division of German Lawyer Association

2009-2012        Lecturer for Sport & Event law at Business and Information Technology School BiTS

since 2016        Lecturer for Sport Law & International Arbitration at Donau University Krems, Austria

since 2016        Lecturer Transferlaw and Athletes Management at IST University of applied science, Cologne

2009-2013        Vice President of International Sport Lawyers Association ISLA

since 2008        Arbitrator at German Arbitration Court for Sport DIS

since 2013        Arbitrator at Arbitration court of German Handball League

since 1999        Owner and CEO of Consultant & Marketing Agency BALLKONTAKTE

 

 

Publications

  • The remains of the day – On the IOC’s handling of alleged doping violations in Sochi 2014; Doping, The Anti-Doping Magazine for competitive athletes, clubs and associations, 1/2018
  • TAMPERING – The problem to provide evidence in doping cases without an Adverse Analytical Finding; Doping, The Anti-Doping Magazine for competitive athletes, clubs and associations,, 4/2017
  • Bravo Wilhelmshaven – Critical review of arbitration system in football, in Berufssportrecht VIII, Jan Sramek Verlag, Wien 2017
  • Organisation, structure and legal base of German Bundesliga, dossier for Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Federal Agency for Civic Education. New release 2016
  • Transfer Law – A guide to transfers in worldwide sports. IST University of applied sience (2016)
  • Crime and Punishment – The liability of football clubs for the behavior of their fans, Cologne magazine for Business Law 3/2013
  • Organisation, structure and legal base of German Bundesliga, dossier for Agency for Civic Education 2012
  • The FIFA transfer regulations from the perspective of the clubs – Enforcement of claims according to the law of FIFA, contract-abiding as a regulatory problem Christof Wieschemann, in: Legal Problems in Football, Poznan PL 2012
  • Development of Transfer Regulations of the FIFA and the jurisdiction concerning compensation for breach of contracts in football – Contribute to the discussion of contractual stability and the valuation of football players, Christof Wieschemann and Dr. Katerina Radostova. In: Berufssportrecht, Jan Sramek Verlag, Wien 2010
  • Aspects of contractual stability in football, Christof Wieschemann and Dr. Katerina Radostova, Charles University Prague 2010
  • Need and proposals for modification of the 50 +1 rule in German Bundesliga, dealing with restrictions on investments in football clubs, Joachim Lammert, Dr. Gregor Hovemann, Christof Wieschemann, Frank Richter, Sport und Gesellschaft 3-2009
  • The 50+1 rule from the point of view of sport economics and competition law, dealing with restrictions on investments in football clubs, Gregor Hovemann & Christof Wieschemann, SpuRt 5/2009
  • Sportrecht (Sport Law) conference transscript of the 25. Congress DBJV, German Brazilian Jurist Association , from 23.-26. November 2006, published by Jörg Rüsing & Christof Wieschemann
  • Sports Law – An overall view from Christof Wieschemann, in: Sports Law, conference transcript of the 25. Congress DBJV, German Brazilian Jurist Association, from 23.-26. November 2006, published by Jörg Rüsing & Christof Wieschemann
  • Football export nation Brazil from Christof Wieschemann, in Topicos 1-2009, Journal of German Brazilian Association

 

Education

  • Sports law, sports management and contract management at the IST University of applied Science Cologne, weekend seminar 2017 & 2018
  • International Arbitration in Sport, Krems University, Austria, 2017
  • Critical consideration of the sport jurisdiction and the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), Ruhr University Bochum Chair of Criminology and Police Sciences, Criminology II, Lectures, 2015 & 2016
  • International Arbitration in Sport, Westphalia Wilhelm University of Münster, Seminar 2012
  • The liability of athletes, organizers and spectators at sporting events, Westphalia Wilhelm University of Münster, Seminar 2012
  • Sportslaw & Event Law, Business and information Technology School Iserlohn, BiTS University of Applied Sience, 5 semesters 2009 – 2012, 2 groups per semester, 12 lectures each
  • Function, structure and jurisdiction of Court of Arbitration for Sport, Charles University Prague 2011, lecture
  • Aspects of contractual stability in football, Charles University Prague 2010, lecture
  • FIFA trademark rights on the occasion of the FIFA World Cup 2006, Ruhr University Bochum 2006, seminar

 

Lectures

  • The Emperor’s New Clothes – What Remains of Sochi 2014 in Sports Law; Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Sports Law at the DAV, Berlin 2019
  • A Culture of Errors in Sports Court Jurisprudence | The Review of the Manipulation of the Doping Control Procedure at the Olympic Games Sochi 2014, German Lawyers’ Day 2018, Mannheim
  • Industrial relations of Olympic Athletes, Subordination or equal rights? 8. Symposium Sports Politics, German Sport University Cologne 2017
  • Findings of McLaren report in result management of federations, Annual Conference of Association of German sport lawyers, Leipzig 2017
  • WADA McLaren Report from the perspective of a defense lawyer of a Russian athlete concerned, International Sports Lawyers Association Conference Berlin, 2017
  • Refugees and Sport. Risks and Chances. Annual Sports Law Conference DAV 2016
  • Critical review of arbitration system in football – causa SV Wilhelmshaven, Juridicum of University Vienna 2016
  • My idea is mine – Intellectual property and its protection as the basis of the company success, Marketing Club Bochum
  • Enforcement of claims within the legal system of FIFA – Need to modify FIFA Transfer Statute, lecture at conference of Association of German sport lawyers, Cologne 2012
  • The FIFA transfer regulations from the perspective of the clubs – Enforcement of claims according to the law of FIFA, contract-abiding as a regulatory problem, Legal Problems in Football, International Conference of Polish Association of Sports Law in cooperation with the Polish Ministry of Sport and Tourism and the UEFA, May 2012 in Poznan PL,
  • Function, structure and jurisdiction of Tribunal Arbitral du Sport / Court of Arbitration for Sport, Charles University Prague 2011
  • Sportslaw in Germany International Sport Law Assembly 2010 Ankara, Ankara Barr Association under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture Turkey
  • Aspects of contractual stability in football Charles University Prague 2010
  • Development of Transfer Regulations of the FIFA and the jurisdiction concerning compensation for breach of contracts in football Juridicum of University of Vienna & Zandel and Grundei, Lawyers Vienna, 2010
  • Contracts in team sport, in particular transfers and buy outs, Lecture for the managing directors of the clubs of German Basketball Bundesliga, BBL Champions Cup 2009
  • Transfer regulations of the FIFA, in particular regarding unilateral termination of contracts in football” Sport Law Division of German Bar Association, Cologne 2008
  • Trademark Rights of the FIFA concerning the World Championship 2006 Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bochum 2006
  • Trademark Rights of the FIFA concerning the World Championship 2006 Ruhr Universität Bochum, 2006
  • Trademarks in Sport and Marketing Marketing Club Bochum 2005

 

Memberships

  • Sports Law Working Group in the DAV, Member of the Executive Committee since 2013
  • ISLA International Sport Lawyers Association (Vice President until 2014)
  • German Association for Sports Law e.V. (DVSR) Constance Working Group
  • DBJV German Brazilian Lawyers Association
  • SG Wattenscheid 09 e.V. Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board 2018
  • Marketing Club Bochum, (Vice President until 2014)
  • Friends of the Clinic for Children and Youth Medicine Bochum, Chairman
  • Board of Trustees of the Christuskirche Bochum, Chairman until 2016
  • Bochum bewegen, Chairman
  • Society of Friends and Sponsors and Friends of the Bochum Music School e.V., Chairman until 2018
  • Friends of the Goethe School Bochum, Chairman until 2019

 

Languages

Deutsch            native language

English             fluently

Italian               basics

 

Interests

Culture, journey, classic music, literature & cinema

Football, ski, diving, sailing, running & cycling