Dr Philipp Maetz

Dr Philipp Maetz was born in 1981 in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. After graduation from high school (2000) and national service, he completed his professional training in the Fiscal Administration of Baden-Wuerttemberg, and studied taxation at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and Finance in Ludwigsburg (2001–2004). He then studied law at the University of Heidelberg (2004–2010), including an exchange year at Kyoto University, Japan (2006-2007). After the First State Examination (2010) and the completion of his legal training with the Second State Examination (2012), he worked as a lawyer in the area of tax law and succession planning (2012–2016). In this time, he also successfully passed the tax consultant exam (2015). Since 2016, Philipp Maetz has worked as a judge at the Finance Court of Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart. In 2017, he was awarded his doctorate by the University of Cologne. He is currently seconded as a research assistant to the Federal Supreme Finance Court (Bundesfinanzhof) in Munich. In addition, Philipp Maetz is co-author of commentaries in the area of income tax as well as reorganisation tax law.