„As a lawyer, I am an analyst, designer, guide and advisor in one - so that I can solve your legal issues in a forward-looking, legally compliant and effective manner.“
Janko Geßner
News.
Events.
Career
- Studied aerospace engineering, graduated with an intermediate diploma
and studied law in Heidelberg - 1997 First state examination in law
- 1999 Second state examination in law
- since 2000 Rechtsanwalt
- Specialist lawyer for administrative law
- Lectureship at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
Participation
- Judge at the Federal Court of Justice (lawyers' panel)
- Member of the Joint Legal Examination Office of the states of Berlin and Brandenburg
- Extensive activity in trainee teacher training
- Extensive lecturing activities
Publications
Editorships and (co-)authorships
- Windenergienutzung - aktuelle Spannungsfelder und Lösungsansätze, together with Edmund Brandt (ed.), BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2017, Order publication
- Regional planning and wind energy - requirements for the criteria
zur Ausweisung von Konzentrationszonen, in Windenergienutzung - aktuelle Spannungsfelder und Lösungsansätze, together with Edmund Brandt (ed.), 89 ff., BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2017, Order publication - Distances to wind turbines Radar, infrastructure facilities, birds and other (un)solvable problems? (m. Willmann, Sebastian), BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2015, Order publication
- Die regionalplanerische Steuerung von Windenergieanlagen, in: Brandt, Edmund (ed.), Jahrbuch Windenergierecht 2013, 9 ff., BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2013,
- The densification of existing wind farms, in: Thomé-Kozmiensky, Karl, Beckmann,
Michael(ed.), Erneuerbare Energien, Band 6 - Biomasse und Biogas, Ersatzbrennstoffe, Windenergie, TK Verlag Karl Thomé-Kozmiensky, 2011, Order publication
Contributions to specialised journals
2024
- The (legal) project manager in authorisation procedures (Janko Geßner/Judith Affeldt), UPR 2024, 448-451
- Grid: Operator rights are strengthened (Janko Geßner/Judith Affeldt), Erneuerbare Energien 09|2024 November, p.21
2022
- Relevant to the topic of nature conservation - Priority for renewable energies in the EEG - Effects on planning and authorisation; ERNEUERBARE ENERGIEN trade journal, 03/2022, p.24
2019
- Polluter-pays principle faces legal challenges, ZfK - Zeitung für kommunale
Economy 11/19, 11 - Relying on cooperation with authorities, interview in Renewable Energies 7/2019,
- Wind power: softening taboo zones, top agrar 7/2019, 26,
2018
- Why don't the conflicts in wind power end?, Spreewind Spiegel - special publication 2018
2017
- More diversity for the market, Energie & Management 10/2017, 21
- EEG 2017 - Problems in the transition period, Erneuerbare Energien Magazin,
2016
- Public participation: desirable and controversial. Energy & Management, Issue 19/16
- ILB cancels grant notifications - municipalities threatened with repayment claims (with Benjamin Grimm), DEMO Extra, Landes-SGK EXTRA Brandenburg, 07/08 2016, 8,
- ECJ ruling on the EEG 2012 expected, Platow Recht, 4 May 2016,
2015
- Electromobility in municipalities, Behördenspiegel, 01.11.2015
- It doesn't get any easier (with Sebastian Lange) , Energy & Management, 10/2015,
- Participation Act: Still need for clarification, Energiespektrum 02/2015,
2014
- Urban development contracts and wind energy - So let he who binds himself (forever) test himself?, AnwBl 1/2014, 39-45
2013
- Safety distances from wind turbines to infrastructure facilities
2012
- Safe wind farm designation, Energie Spektrum 03/2012,
- Wind energy in the forest - special features of the authorisation procedure using the example of Brandenburg state law (with M. Genth), NuR 3/2012, 161-165, Order publication
2011
- Municipalities and electricity concession contracts: So test he who binds himself forever? (with M. Jansen), LKV 10/2011, 450 ff, Order publication
- Wind energy in Lower Saxony's forests (with M. Genth), Land & Forst, 35/2011, 90 - 92
- Farmers must tolerate wind turbines (note on BGH, judgement of 15 April 2011 - BLw 12/10), Financial Times Deutschland, 16 August 2011
- Acceleration of grid expansion before the breakthrough?, Energie und Mangament 10/11 2011, Order publication
- Wind energy in the forest? (with M. Genth), Deutscher Waldbesitzer, 4/2011, 11-12,
2010
- Waiting for Karlsruhe - On the lifetime extension for nuclear power plants, Energie & Management, 20/2010, 8
- Problem solver Brussels - On the EU Commission's energy infrastructure package, energiespektrum 09-10/2010, 18
- Putting electricity and gas concessions to the test - on the 2010 guidelines, ET - Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen, 5/2011, 70 ff
- Spatial planning trumps construction planning, Energy & Management 2010, 7,
- Mandatory tendering for municipal property sales? - ECJ ends Ahlhorn case law, Kommunalwirtschaft 2010 Sonderheft, 90 ff,
2009
- Service contract or concession - operator model put to the test, wwt - wasserwirtschaft wassertechnik 11-12/2009, 42-44,
- Perfluorinated surfactants. The end for agricultural sewage sludge utilisation?, wlb 10/2009,
38-40,
2005
- Avoidance of manipulation in the award of public contracts (m. H. Hentschke), LKV 10/2005, 425 ff,
2001
- The rights of defence of agricultural businesses against encroaching residential buildings. An important example of neighbour protection in public building law through the principle of consideration under building planning law (with U. Diehr), NVwZ 2001, 985 ff.
