Areas of specialization
- Individual business and tax criminal defense
- Corporate business and tax criminal defense
- Strategic consulting for companies
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„All-rounder and excellent coordinator in large-scale proceedings“ – „strong standing“ – „comprehensive understanding of economic contexts”.
JUVE Law Firm Directory 2024/25
“Great lawyer. Very analytical but also collegial and can lead teams well.”
Chambers Germany 2025
„Fast thinker with a sense of the big picture, strong standing, undaunted.“
JUVE Law Firm Directory 2023/24
Recommended in business and tax criminal law
Handelsblatt – Germany’s Best Lawyers 2024
Vita
- Law program at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg with a focus on commercial criminal law and the University of Cape Town in South Africa
- Judicial clerkship in jurisdiction of Higher Regional Court of Hamburg
- Doctorate from the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg
Dissertation: “Corruption in § 299 StGB (German penal code) – A Dissertation on the Harmonisation of Criminal Law and Competition Law” - Part-time lecturer at the Police Academy of Hamburg
- Specialist Lawyer for Criminal Law, Certified Defense Counsel for Tax Law (DUV e.V.)
- Lawyer and partner at the law firm ROXIN Rechtsanwälte Part mbB
Publications*
*For better readability, all news, publications and events have been translated into English.
All publications are only available in the original version.
Article
Beaching. Criminal liability for disposal of vessels
Wistra 2023, pp. 133 – 141 (co-authored with Dr. Mika Kremer)
2023
Article
Annotations to the substantive and procedural criminal law of the Act on the Protection of Trade Secrets
Hoppe/Oldekop (eds.), Trade secrets handbook, 2. edition 2022
2022
Annotation
Annotation to judgment of district court of Stuttgart dated 24 March 2020 – 61 Ns 142 JS 11422/16 (criminal liability for obstruction of prosecution or punishment due to guarantor status of the tax authorities
NZWiSt 2021, pp. 266-268 (co-authored with Dr. Mika Kremer)
2020
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Article
Reckless money laundering by online payment service providers
ZWH 2020, pp. 101 – 105 (co-authored with Dr. Mika Kremer)
2020
Article
Confiscation in cases of abstract endangerment offences
NZWiSt 2020, pp. 174 – 177 (co-authored with Dr. Mika Kremer)
2020
Article
The criminal law implications of the suspension of the obligation to file for insolvency in the Corona crisis
Newsdienst Compliance 2020, 210002 (co-authored with Dr. Mika Kremer)
2020
Article
Review: Kuhn/Weigell/Görlich (publishers), Criminal tax law (3rd ed. 2019)
NJW 2019, p. 1126
2019
Article
The „de facto non-director”
NZWiSt 2018, pp. 161 – 169 (co-authored with Dr. Oliver Sahan)
2018
Article
State sanctions as an adverse effect in the sense of embezzlement?
NZWiSt 2016, pp. 212 – 219 (co-authored with Peter-Jan Solka)
2016
Annotation
Annotations to the German Federal Court’s decision on tax evasion “on a large scale” – 1 StR 373/15
NJW 2016, pp. 967 – 968
2016
Article
Determination of applicable connecting provisions for corporate fines
Betriebs-Berater, pp. 2822 – 2828 (co-authored with Dr. Matthias Peukert, LL.M.)
2015
Annotation
Annotations to the German Federal Court’s decision on embezzlement within the Party CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate
NJW 2015, pp. 1624 – 1625
2015
Article
Wrong entrepreneurial decisions as embezzlement? A dangerous (and wrong) development!
Betriebs-Berater 2015, pp. 323 – 328
2015
Article
The federal government’s draft on anti-corruption law – description and critique
Compliance Berater (CB) 2015, pp. 143 – 147
2015
Article
New legislation concerning Section 30 of the Act on Regulatory Offences – Possibilities to avoid liability in the light of legislative exuberance
Betriebs-Berater 2014, pp. 649 – 655
2014
Thesis
„Unfairness“ in the context of Section 299 of the German Criminal Code. An attempt at harmonizing criminal and competition law
Dissertation
2012
Article
Whistleblowing – fighting corruption with the help of Business Keeper Monitoring Systems?
Bucerius Law Journal (BLJ) 2008, pp. 3 – 8
2008
Get in touch with me
Dr. Johannes Altenburg
ROXIN Rechtsanwälte Part mbB
Rathauscontor
Große Johannisstraße 9
20457 Hamburg
Germany
