Lawyer, Mediator
Former President of the Administrative Court in Frankfurt (ret.)
mediation in the public sector, business mediation, mediation in matters of family and inheritance law, mediator of participation procedures
Language: English
Prof. Dr. Roland Fritz
Roland Fritz has a long and successful career as a jurist. He acted as a judge, then worked for a couple of years at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe and became president of the Administrative Court in Giessen. In 2002 he also became honorary professor at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen. In 2013 he was admitted to the German Bar to practice as a lawyer.
Training and experience
born in 1947 in Offenbach
activity as mediator (focus: mediation in the public sector, business mediation, mediation in matters of family and inheritance law)
trainer and instructor in the field of mediation for judges, lawyers and students
short-term expert for international legal projects and mediation, inter alia, in China and Vietnam
honorary professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen (federal state of Hesse)
legal mediator within the administrative jurisdiction of the state of Hesse (2006 bis 2013)
president of the administrative court Frankfurt/Main (until January 2013)
graduate of the master’s course in mediation at Europe University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder
president of the Administrative Court Giessen (from 2002 until 2008)
research associate at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe (1982 until 1986)
law studies at Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt on the Main
Memberships
GEMME – Groupement Européen des Magistrats pour la Médiation
LOEWE – focus: conflict resolution both in court and out of court, panel of experts
FSG – Fortbildungs- und Service GmbH( Ltd. company of further education and service) of the bar of the State of Hesse, advisory council
Publications
author and (co-) editor of standard works and publications regarding constitutional and administrative law
author and (co-) editor of standard works and publications regarding consensual conflict resolution, including
Fritz / Pielsticker, Kommentar zum Mediationsgesetz, 2013
Fritz / Fritz, Wirtschaftsmediation, 2013
Fritz, Das enge Korsett des Mediationsgesetzes, Die Wirtschaftsmediation, 2013 (Heft 1)
Fritz / Krabbe, Plädoyer für Qualität und Nachhaltigkeit der Güterichterausbildung, NVwZ 2013, 29
Fritz, Güterichter und was nun? Hess. JMBl. 2012, 425
Fritz / Krabbe, Neue Entwicklungen in der anwaltlichen Mediationspraxis, NJW 2011, 3204
Fritz / Krabbe, Gerichtsinterne Mediation – der Faktor Zeit, NVwZ 2011, 396
Fritz / Karber / Lambeck, Mediation statt Verwaltungsprozess, 2004