Dr. Hans Hammann

Born in Kaiserslautern in 1967, trained as a bank clerk, studied law at the University of Tübingen, joined the firm in 1998, admitted as a partner in 2002. Business mediator (DIRO), certified executor (DVEV), member of the German Association for Inheritance Law and Property Succession (DVEV) and the Inheritance Law Working Group of the German Bar Association.

Dr. Hammann has been working exclusively in the field of German and international inheritance and inheritance tax law since the late 1990s and regularly receives awards based on independent data surveys.

In addition to his recognized professional expertise and his ability to think clearly and in a structured manner, Dr. Hammann is distinguished above all by the empathy with which he is able to advise his clients "with heart and mind" and work out optimal solutions in their interests.

Areas of advice

• Dispute-avoiding and tax-optimized drafting of wills, particularly in the case of large and complex asset relationships

• Asset succession planning ("anticipated succession")

• Nationwide legal representation in inheritance disputes, e.g. interpretation or contestation of wills

• Inheritance certificate proceedings, e.g. in the event of testamentary incapacity

• Enforcement and defense of compulsory portion claims and/or legacy claims

• Communities of heirs: amicable and contentious disputes

• Execution of wills: Drafting, implementation and defense

• Precautionary and general powers of attorney, care directives and living wills

• Gift and inheritance tax structuring and processing

• "International" inheritance tax law (from a German perspective)

• German/Spanish inheritance and inheritance tax law and estate settlements

• Interpretation and contestation of unclear wills

• Mediation

Activity as a specialist consultant

Since 1999, Dr. Hammann has been lecturing on the same topics as his day-to-day practice and his publications as part of the training and further education of lawyers specializing in inheritance law and at inheritance law symposia (including the German Inheritance Law Day, Berlin; German Inheritance Law Symposium, Heidelberg; North German Inheritance Law Forum, Hamburg; Rhine Inheritance Law Forum, Cologne; Stuttgart Inheritance Law Days, etc.):

• drafting wills

• Disability, patchwork and divorce wills

• Right to a compulsory portion - creation, enforcement and avoidance

• Right to a compulsory portion and drafting wills

• Interpretation of wills in general

• Contesting wills

• The object of the estate that no longer exists

Lectures for non-lawyers:
Dr. Hammann has been giving up to 20 lectures a year in Germany and Spain since the late 1990s, for example for life support associations, for further education providers, for social, church and charitable institutions, for banks, etc.

Voluntary work:

• Co-founder and organizer of the Reutlingen Inheritance Law Forum and the Reutlingen Foundation Days.

• Member of the Board of the Reutlingen Community Foundation and the Marienkirche Reutlingen Foundation (since 2001; Chairman of the Board since 2010).

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Christel Guthörle Foundation (since 2005) and the Dr. Rainer Märklin Foundation (since 2021).

• From 2005 to 2009, full member of the "Specialist lawyer for inheritance law" examination board of the Tübingen, Karlsruhe and Freiburg Bar Associations.

• From 2013 to 2019, member of the 7-person executive committee of the German Bar Association's Inheritance Law Working Group, which has over 2,000 members. As such, co-editor of the specialist journal ErbR.

• Since 2021 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of VHS Reutlingen and its subsidiaries.