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Dr.Ralf Kittelberger
He teaches employment law, compliance management systems and corporate governance, and holds specialist-lawyer status in both employment law and company law. He holds a doctorate in law, is a Certified Compliance Expert and a certified supervisory board member, and has sat on the specialist-lawyer examination board of the Tübingen bar chamber since 2014. He has lectured at HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen since 2016 and teaches compliance management systems and personnel law in its corporate governance master's programmes. Day to day he leads governance and legal work for an international specialty chemicals group, so the systems he teaches are the ones he runs.
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Education
- Doctorate in law, TU Darmstadt
Dr. iur. awarded 2005 for a dissertation supervised by Prof. Dr. Uwe H. Schneider.
- Law degree, University of Tübingen, with both state examinations
Studied law at Tübingen and completed the legal clerkship at Rottweil regional court, qualifying as Rechtsassessor in 2002.
- Lecturer in employment law, HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen, since 2016
Teaches employment law in the business administration bachelor's programme, now in his tenth year of university teaching.
- Teaches compliance management systems in two governance master's programmes
Since winter semester 2025/2026 he teaches compliance management systems and personnel law at HfWU in the M.Sc. Corporate Governance und Wirtschaftsprüfung and the LL.M. Wirtschaftsrecht und Corporate Governance, jointly with Dr. Tina Kärcher-Heilemann.
- Rechtsassessor, University of Tübingen and Landgericht Rottweil (1995 to 2002); Dr. iur., TU Darmstadt (2003 to 2005)University of Tübingen / TU Darmstadt
Industry
- Governance across group structures in Europe, Asia and the United States
Works with internationally distributed group and family-business structures, with sites in Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, India and the United States.
- Works on legal tech, legal operations and AI-supported legal processes
Follows how AI-supported processes are changing legal work and how legal, IT and business functions cooperate around them.
Workshops
- Taught employment law to qualifying lawyers at the Stuttgart bar's training institute
Lectured in the specialist-lawyer course for employment law from 2017 to 2023, and taught employment law in the certified paralegal programme from 2011 to 2023.
Languages
- German, English, French
German as a native language, English at negotiation level, French at basic level.
Qualifications
- Specialist lawyer in employment law and in commercial and company law
Admitted as a lawyer and as in-house counsel, and holder of the German Fachanwalt title in two fields at once, which requires separately evidenced practice and examination in each.
Certifications
- Certified Compliance Expert and certified supervisory board member
Certified Compliance Expert (CCE); zertifizierter Aufsichtsrat.
Career
- Family Office, Governance and Legal, Dr. Neidlinger Holding, since 2023
Leads governance and legal work for a specialty chemicals group whose companies make casting compounds, adhesives and polyurethane foam systems for automotive, electronics and energy customers, and holds sole commercial power of representation for the holding company.
- Family Office, Governance and Legal, Dr. Neidlinger Holding, since 2023
Leads governance and legal work for a specialty chemicals group whose companies make casting compounds, adhesives and polyurethane foam systems for automotive, electronics and energy customers, and holds sole commercial power of representation for the holding company.
- Runs his own law practice in Reutlingen
Advises mid-sized companies and employers in employment, commercial and company law, which is where the cases he teaches from come from.
- Founded the employment law firm DREITOR, Reutlingen
Built and led an employment law practice from 2019 to 2023 and remains associated with it as a lawyer.
- Head of Legal and HR at TRIGEMA
Carried legal and personnel responsibility for a well-known German textile manufacturer, which is where employment law stops being theory.
- Head of Legal and HR at TRIGEMA
Carried legal and personnel responsibility for a well-known German textile manufacturer, which is where employment law stops being theory.
- Partner at SLP Anwaltskanzlei
Attorney and partner; certified specialist lawyer for employment law and for commercial and corporate law.
Publications
- Writes and speaks on employment law and compliance
Specialist author for DATEV magazin and the SOLCOM freelancer blog, and a regular speaker at talks, training sessions and workshops.
Memberships
- Professional memberships in the German legal and in-house counsel community
Member of the Tübingen bar association, the BUJ federal association of in-house counsel, and diruj, the German institute for legal departments and in-house counsel.
Regulatory
- Examiner on the specialist-lawyer board of the Tübingen bar chamber
Has examined candidates for the Fachanwalt title in commercial and company law since 2014, setting and marking the profession's own qualifying assessments.
- Builds and assesses compliance management systems
Designs and reviews compliance management systems, HR compliance in particular, and develops governance strategy for company management.
- Corporate law structuring and company management from the inside, including sole procuration at a holding company
Legal
- Foundation board member, Ilse-Graulich-Stiftung, since 2014
Over a decade of service on a foundation board, a governance body with its own fiduciary duties.