Eberhard Eichenhofer

Eberhard Eichenhofer studied in Tübingen and Saarbrücken, where he also received his doctorate and habilitation. He worked as a research associate at the Federal Social Court and as a research consultant at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law. From 1989 he was a professor of civil law and social law at the University of Osnabrück (until 1997) and at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In 2003 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg and in 2012 he was a corresponding member of the Scientific Academy in Göttingen. Since 2016 he has been living in Berlin in retirement.