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    Insurance law

Insurance law is a wide and complex area of law and we are the right contact for you in this area. The specialised lawyers at SEGELKEN & SUCHOPAR will provide you with comprehensive advice in all areas of insurance law and will impress you with their many years of forensic and out-of-court experience.

Our valuable expertise is in demand for both coverage problems as well as the formulation of terms and conditions. Naturally we also advise insurance companies in matters of insurance mediation law and in particular in the drafting and processing of agency agreements. Naturally our specialised knowledge of insurance companies and policyholders is also in particular demand in all areas of transport insurance law, a main area of focus of our law office.

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    Contact persons
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Susanne Reichstein

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Dr. Heiko Saur LL.M.

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Dr. Cliff Meesenburg

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Jan Thede

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Thomas Mälzer

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Alexander Ibsch

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Dr. Christian Völker

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Tristan Cyrill Exner LL.M.

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Benedikt Pollmeier

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Gene-Eric Uhlmann

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Laura Alice Wagner

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Susanne Reichstein

Susanne Reichstein is a lawyer specialised in insurance law and labour law. She studied law in Hamburg and has been admitted to practise law since 1994.

Fields of activity:

Foreign languages:

  • English

  • French

Memberships:

  • German Bar Association

  • Working Group on Transport and Forwarding Law of the German Bar Association

  • Working Group on Insurance Law of the German Bar Association

  • German Association for Transport Law

  • Hamburg Actuarial Science Association

  • International Bar Association

 

Office:Hamburg

E-mail:reichstein@sesu.de

Telephone:+49 40 376805-0

Lawyer

Dr. Heiko Saur LL.M.

Following his training as a shipping specialist, Dr Heiko Saur studied law in Hamburg and has been admitted to practise law since 1997. His doctoral thesis was ‚The modification of liability principles in freight, forwarding and warehousing law due to the Transport Law Reform Act‘. He obtained a Master of Insurance Law from the University of Münster in 2004. He is a lawyer specialised in insurance law as well as transport and forwarding law.

Fields of activity:

Foreign languages:

  • English

Mitglied im:

  • German Bar Association

  • Working Group on Transport and Forwarding Law of the German Bar Association

  • Working Group on Insurance Law of the German Bar Association

  • German Association for Transport Law

 

Office:Hamburg

E-mail:saur@sesu.de

Telephone:+49 40 376805-0

Lawyer

Dr. Cliff Meesenburg

After studying law in Freiburg im Breisgau with a specialisation in civil and European law, Dr Cliff Meesenburg performed his clerkship in Berlin, Leipzig and Tokyo. He has been admitted to practise law since 1999. His doctoral thesis was ‚The principle of the protection of legitimate expectations in European financial administration law‘ and he is a lawyer specialised in insurance law.

Fields of activity:

Foreign languages:

  • English

Memberships:

  • German Bar Association

  • Working Group on Insurance Law of the German Bar Association

  • Working Group on Transport and Forwarding Law of the German Bar Association

  • German Association for Transport Law

 

Office:Berlin / Hamburg

E-mail:meesenburg@sesu.de

Telephone:+49 30 226287-0

Telephone:+49 40 376805-0

Lawyer

Jan Thede

Following his training as an industrial clerk, Jan Thede studied law in Hamburg and Tübingen. He has been admitted to practise law since 2002. He is a lawyer specialised in insurance law as well as transport and forwarding law.

Fields of activity:

Foreign languages:

  • English

  • French

Memberships:

  • German Bar Association

  • German Association for Transport Law

  • German Association for Actuarial Science

  • Working Group on Transport and Forwarding Law of the German Bar Association

 

Office:Hamburg

E-mail:thede@sesu.de

Telephone:+49 40 376805-0

Lawyer

Thomas Mälzer

Before studying law in Heidelberg, Thomas Mälzer completed an apprenticeship as a bank clerk. He has been admitted to practise law since 1998. He is a lawyer specialised in transport and forwarding law.

Fields of activity:

Foreign languages:

  • English

Memberships:

  • German Association for Transport Law

  • German Association for Maritime Law

  • Actuarial Science Association of the University of Hamburg

 

Office:Hamburg

E-mail:maelzer@sesu.de

Telephone:+49 40 376805-0

Lawyer

Alexander Ibsch

Before studying law in Berlin, Alexander Ibsch completed an apprenticeship as an insurance salesman. He has been admitted to practise law since 2012.

Fields of activity:

Foreign languages:

  • English

 

Office:Berlin

E-mail:ibsch@sesu.de

Telephone:+49 30 226287-0

Lawyer

Dr. Christian Völker

Dr. Christian Völker studied law at the Universities of Tübingen and Constance and received his PhD on issues of international judgment recognition. After completing his legal clerkship in Strasbourg, among other places, he has been admitted to practise law in 1997. Since 2005 he is a lawyer specialised in transport and forwarding law and since 2006 as well in insurance law.

Fields of activity:

Foreign languages:

  • French

  • English

Memberships:

  • German Bar Association

  • German Association for Transport Law

  • Working Group on Transport and Forwarding Law of the German Bar Association

  • Working Group on Insurance Law of the German Bar Association

  • German-French Lawyers Association

Office:Hamburg

E-mail:voelker@sesu.de

Telephone:+49 40 376805-0

Lawyer

Tristan Cyrill Exner LL.M.

Tristan Cyrill Exner studied law with a focus on „Maritime Business Law“ in Hamburg, where he also completed his legal clerkship.
He was admitted to the bar in 2022. He completed his Master of Laws at the University of Münster in 2025 with a thesis on cargo insurance.

Fields of activity:

Foreign languages:

  • English

Memberships:

  • German Association for International Maritime Law

  • German Association for Transport Law

  • Traditional Association of German Transport Insurers

 

Office:Hamburg

E-mail:exner@sesu.de

Telephone:+49 40 376805-0

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Benedikt Pollmeier

Benedikt Pollmeier studied law in Würzburg and Hamburg. During his legal clerkship, he worked for a large law firm in the field of renewable energies / large-scale plant construction. He was admitted to the bar in 2021 and as a specialist lawyer for transport and forwarding law in 2025. Before joining SESU, he worked as a litigator in corporate law.

Fields of activity:

Foreign languages:

  • English

Memberships:

  • German Association for Transport Law

 

Office:Hamburg

E-mail:pollmeier@sesu.de

Telephone:+49 40 376805-0

Lawyer

Gene-Eric Uhlmann

Gene-Eric Uhlmann studied law with a focus on “Maritime Business Law” in Hamburg and, in addition to his legal training, also successfully completed a Bachelor of Arts in the international “Shipping and Chartering” course at Bremen University of Applied Sciences. He was admitted to the bar in 2024.

Fields of activity:

Foreign languages:

  • English

Memberships:

  • German Association for Transport Law

  • German Association for International Maritime Law

  • Hamburg Bar Association

 

Office:Hamburg

E-mail:uhlmann@sesu.de

Telephone:+49 40 376805-0

Lawyer

Laura Alice Wagner

Laura Alice Wagner studied law at the University of Hamburg and Trinity College Dublin. She completed her legal clerkship at Lübeck District Court. She was admitted to the bar in 2024.

Fields of activity:

Foreign languages:

  • English

Memberships:

  • German Bar Association

  • German Association of Women Lawyers

 

Office:Hamburg

E-mail:wagner@sesu.de

Telephone:+49 40 376805-0