Dr. Markus Vogel

* 1973 in Frankfurt am Main
qualified lawyer

CIVIC GmbH - Институт международного образования
город: Дюссельдорф
info@civic-institute.eu 
0049 / (0)211 / 23 38 855

  • Law studies at Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Università degli Studi Tor Vergata in Rom; additional degree „Master of German-foreign Law “ (Mag. iur.), participation at the project Japan Studies (Mainz University) and studies of „Japanese Civil Law “ at Fernuniversität Hagen
  • Legal clerkship at in the higher regional court district Zweibrücken including stages at the German University for Administration in Speyer, at the European Institute of Saarbrücken and the German-Malaysian Chamber of Commerce in Kuala Lumpur
  • Postgraduate studies „European Integration“ at the European Institute of the University of Saarbrücken; degree: LLM. Eur.
  • Doctorate (dissertation in WTO law), Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (2003); degree: Dr. iur.

He works since 2003 as civil servant in the administration of the State of Hessen.  After professional stages as juridical trainee at the Hessian Ministry of the Interior, Regierungspräsidium Darmstadt, Kreis Offenbach (county) as well as at the German Technical Aid Corporation  in Pretoria (South Africa) he entered the European Department of the Hessian State Chancellery.

Since 2005 he deals with European affairs for the Hessian State Government: first with the fields environment, international relations and partner regions, later on for Hessen in the European Department of the Foreign Office with EU coordination and now with numerous tasks in the fields EU policy and coordination in the State Chancellery.

He currently serves as head of the division „EU policy coordination“ being responsible for the inter-ministerial coordination of European affairs as well as for the participation of Hessen in numerous political institutions. He loves working at an interface between politics, law and administration. In 2015/2016 he was head of the permanent working group of the Conference of the Ministers for European Affairs during the Hessian presidency. For many years he organized and supervised the “personal policy Europe” in the Hessian state administration and, nonetheless, he was responsible for the “Europe Strategy” of the Hessian State Government.

Since 2006 he is teaching in trainings concerning EU topics, since 2009 also in cooperation with CIVIC.

From 2009 he participated regularly as short term observer in election observation missions run by the OSCE. In his spare time he is, inter alia, involved in the church sector (e.g. member of the parish council, delegate in the lay councils of the diocese of Mainz) as well as in the “Europa-Union”. Besides, he regularly publishes on European topics.

His working priorities:

  • European legislation
  • subsidiarity
  • European multi level system; participation of the German länder in EU affairs.