Speaker 2026
Prof. Dr. Johanna Wenckebach
In-house Counsel at IG Metall & Professor of Labour Law, University of Labour
- Topic
- Chief Legal Counsel of IG Metall; panel on co-determination – only available until 2 p.m.
- Edition
- German Legal Tech Summit 2026
- Date
- Venue
- HCC – Hannover Congress Centrum, Eilenriedehalle

Appearance
At the Summit 2026
Profile
About the speaker
Prof. Dr. Johanna Wenckebach is Legal Counsel at IG Metall and Professor of Labour Law at the University of Labour, Frankfurt am Main. She is the author of numerous publications on labour law and co-editor of the "Handbuch Arbeitsrecht". From 2019 to 2023, she was Academic Director of the Hugo Sinzheimer Institute for Labour Law. She is a lay judge at the Federal Labour Court and a member of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG.
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