ALEXANDER SCHRÖTER

Alexander Schröter, born in 1963, is a Berliner born and bred. After graduating in law from the Free University of Berlin and completing his practical legal training in 1988, he initially worked at the Treuhandanstalt (organisation to privatise/wind up the state-owned assets of the former German Democratic Republic) as a section head. He then moved to a large notary's office and in 1997 went on to form a partnership with Holger Rickmann. He qualified as a lawyer specialised in fiscal law in 1994. In 1998 he was appointed to the office of notary public.