Background
Dr. Hartmann was born in 1949. His legal education and professional career were centred in Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland and a major commercial and financial centre.
University of Zurich
Dr. Hartmann was born in 1949. His legal education and professional career were centred in Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland and a major commercial and financial centre.
Dr. Hartmann studied law at the University of Zurich, where he obtained a doctorate in law in 1974.
The University of Zurich was founded in 1833 as the successor to the Carolinum, one of the institutions established during the liberal reforms of the Swiss Regeneration period. It has long been one of the largest universities in Switzerland, and its law faculty provided the academic foundation for his subsequent admission to the bar.
Dr. Hartmann's documented career is based in Zurich, where he worked as a partner of Froriep Renggli & Partner, a Swiss commercial law firm. He was admitted to the bar in 1975, the year after he obtained his doctorate in law.
The firm's origins lie in Zurich, where it began in 1966, and by the early 2010s it had roughly ninety lawyers with offices in Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne and Zug, as well as in London and Madrid. The firm later adopted the shorter name Froriep. A merger with Meyerlustenberger Lachenal was announced in December 2020, and the combined firm now operates as MLL Meyerlustenberger Lachenal Froriep.