Dr Thomas Gohrke
Areas of practice
Dr Thomas Gohrke specialises in real estate and public business law and coordinates the Real Estate & Infrastructure sector at Luther. In the field of real estate law, he advises on complex transactions and building projects. In the field of public business law, he mainly advises on issues pertaining to European, constitutional and administrative law. His clients include institutional investors and contracting authorities, as well as private businesses that operate in regulated industries (e.g. universities, hospitals and gambling businesses) or in the construction industry. Dr Thomas Gohrke is also the author of numerous textbooks and various professional publications.
Vita
Dr Thomas Gohrke studied law at the University of Leipzig, Germany, where he was also awarded his doctorate in 2000. He was admitted to the German Bar in 1998, joined Luther’s predecessor firm in 1999 and, in 2003, additionally qualified as a specialist lawyer for administrative law. Dr Thomas Gohrke is based in Luther's Leipzig and Hanover offices, but provides advisory services throughout Germany.
Honors and distinctions
- JUVE Guide 2024/2025: Listed under "Frequently Recommended" in "Real Estate Law" (first listed in 2019/2020, "solution-oriented", competitor) and in "Regulated Industries - Healthcare" (first listed in 2021/2022, "strong negotiator", client)
- The Legal 500 Germany 2025: Recommendation in the category "Public Law - Commercial Administrative Law" (first recommendation in 2023, first mention in 2021, "Thomas Gohrke: An absolute industry expert and extremely well connected. He always finds the optimal solution for us. Always solution-oriented. Targeted brainstorming for complex issues. Thomas Gohrke: Fantastic, I don’t know of any comparable lawyer. Smart, very good advisor, constructive and solution-oriented."), recommendation in the category "Real Estate Law" (first recommendation in 2022, first mention in 2020, "Thomas Gohrke has very well-founded specialist knowledge, creative approaches to solutions and communication on an equal footing with all parties, as well as a very professional demeanor.") and mention "Industry Focus - Health"
- The Legal 500 Germany 2023: Recommendations in "City Focus Hannover" and "City Focus Leipzig" and mention in "Industry Focus - Health" ("Thomas Gohrke is an excellent analyst and innovative consultant.")
- Best Lawyers 2026: Recommendation in "Real Estate Law" (first recommendation in 2021)
Clients
Real estate
- Advising professional pension funds on the acquisition of the Bleichenhof property, Hamburg
- Advising the pension fund for lawyers in Lower Saxony on the acquisition of the “AEGI” hotel project, Hanover
- Advising professional pension funds on the acquisition of “SPIN”, Frankfurt
- Advising the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the construction of new administrative headquarters, Hanover
- Advising professional pension funds on the acquisition of the "Springer-Quartier" project, Hamburg
- Advising on the sale of the "MUC 10" portfolio, Munich
- Advising the Medical Association of Lower Saxony on the construction of new administrative headquarters, Hanover
Health care industry
- Advising the City of Cologne on the project regarding the “association of Cologne hospitals”
- Advising the Göttingen University Medical Centre and the Medical University of Hanover on how to reorganise the construction of university hospitals in Lower Saxony
- Advising the University of Leipzig and the University Hospital of Leipzig on their cooperation with the Leipzig Heart Centre
Gambling
- Advising the Hamburg casino on the procedure for the award of a gambling licence and an interim licence
- Advising the Free State of Thuringia on the reorganisation of LOTTO Thüringen
- Advising the German States of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Rhineland-Palatinate on matters related to casinos
Publications
- Mitautor des Handbuches der Immobilienwirtschaftsrecht, herausgegeben von Guido Meyer, C.H.Beck, 2022
- Betriebspflicht für Spielbanken, in: ZfWG - Zeitschrift für Wett- und Glückspielrecht, Heft 5/2020 S. 328 ff.
- Grundstückskaufvertrag - Keine Formbedürftigkeit einer nachträglichen Vereinbarung über die Nutzungsbeschränkung eines Grundstücks nach bindend erklärter Auflassung, in: Zeitschrift für Immobilienrecht (ZfIR) 2020, S. 421
- Länder reformieren Glücksspielrecht, in: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW), Heft 10/2020
- Besprechung zu BGH V ZR 7/19, in: Zeitschrift für Immobilienrecht (ZfIR) 2020, S. 425
- Urteilsbesprechung zu KG 22 U 67/17, in: Zeitschrift für Immobilienrecht (ZfIR) 2019, S. 347 ff.
- Effektiver Spielerschutz ohne Sperrvertrag?, in: Zeitschrift für Wett- und Glücksspielrecht (ZfWG) 2018, S. 362 ff.
- Konzessionsbescheide sind keine Konzessionsverträge nach § 105 GWB, in: Zeitschrift für Wett- und Glücksspielrecht (ZfWG) 2018, S. 231 ff.
- Bearbeitung des Kapitels "Spielbankenrecht", in: Glücksspiel, herausgegeben von Ihno Gebhardt & Dr. Stefan Korte, 2. Aufl. 2018
Blog posts
- Die COVID-19-Pandemie – Auswirkungen auf gewerbliche Mietverhältnisse nach der Einführung des Art 240 § 2 EGBGB (Stand: 25.3.2020)
- The COVID-19 pandemic - effects on commercial lease agreements after the introduction of Article 240 § 2 of the German Introductory Act to the German Civil Code (EGBGB) (as at: 25/03/2020)
Hans-Christian Ackermann
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Stefan Altenschmidt, LL.M. (Nottingham)
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Marcus Backes
Partner
Hamburg
Jutta Wittler
Partner
Cologne
Dr Arndt Begemann
Of Counsel
Essen
Guido Wenzel
Partner
Hamburg
Bernhard Burkert, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)
Counsel
Berlin
Dr Christoph von Burgsdorff, LL.M. (Essex)
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Kuuya Josef Chibanguza, LL.B.
Partner
Hanover
Denis Ullrich
Partner
Leipzig
Klaus Thönißen, LL.M. (San Francisco)
Partner
Essen
Christiane Frye
Counsel
Essen
Dr Gernot-Rüdiger Engel
Partner
Hamburg
Martin Steuber, LL.M.
Partner
Dusseldorf
Ingo Erberich
Partner
Cologne
Stephan Finck
Partner
Leipzig
Ulrich Siegemund
Of Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Hendrik Bernd Sehy
Counsel
Hanover
Dr Stefan Galla
Partner
Essen
Dr Daniel Schubmann
Counsel
Hanover
Dr Thomas Gohrke
Partner
Hanover, Leipzig
Frank Gutsche
Partner
Stuttgart
Steffen Häberer
Partner
Leipzig
Dr Thomas Halberkamp
Partner
Hanover
Dr Richard Happ
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Manuel Heide
Partner
Berlin
Dr Henning Holz, LL.M.
Counsel
Hanover
Dr Helmut Janssen, LL.M. (King's College London)
Partner
Brussels, Dusseldorf
Dr Oliver Kairies
Partner
Hanover
Paul Schreiner
Partner
Cologne, Essen
Dr Andreas Kloyer
Partner
Frankfurt a.M., London
Dr Barbara Schmidt
Partner
Leipzig
Dr Stefan Kobes
Partner
Berlin
Christoph Schauenburg, LL.M. (London)
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Thomas Köhler
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Karsten Köhler
Partner
Leipzig
Dr Eva Maria K. Rütz, LL.M.
Partner
Dusseldorf, Cologne
Jens Röhrbein
Partner
Hanover
Dr Thomas Kuhnle
Partner
Stuttgart, London
Henner M. Puppel
Partner
Essen
Dr Ulrich Philippi
Partner
Stuttgart
Ulf-Dieter Pape
Partner
Hanover
Robert Pacholski
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Dr Kay Oelschlägel
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Mathias Mailänder
Counsel
Hamburg
Andreas Mally
Counsel
Leipzig
Achim Meier
Partner
Essen
Dr Cédric Müller, LL.M. (Bristol)
Partner
Essen
Ole-Jochen Melchior
Partner
Essen
Michael Kunkel, LL.M.
Partner
Cologne
Rolf Corsten
Of Counsel
Dusseldorf
Dr Eckart Petzold
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Sabrina Desens
Partner
Leipzig
Prof. Dr Tobias Leidinger
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Martin Fleckenstein
Partner
Berlin
Dr Franziska Klaß-Dingeldey, MLE
Senior Associate
Hanover
Daniel Naumann
Partner
Leipzig
Patrick Gocht
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Dr Gerd-Ulrich Kapteina
Partner
Essen
Prof. Christian Zanner
Partner
Berlin
Cornelia Yzer
Of Counsel
Berlin
Katharina Klenk-Wernitzki, Dipl. Reg.-Wiss
Partner
Berlin, Cologne
Dr Frederic Tewes
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Anne Biebler
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Jenny Tsynn
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Dr Karina Wojtowicz
Senior Associate
Hanover
Prof. Dr Herbert Willems
Partner
Essen
Elena Recklin
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Christian Brauns
Counsel
Stuttgart
Dr Michael Bormann
Partner
Dusseldorf
Hannah Aigner
Senior Associate
Munich
Anja Schwarz, LL.M. (London)
Senior Associate
Cologne
Nils Kramer
Senior Associate
Essen
Dr Daniela Salm
Counsel
Brussels
Dr Frank Seidel
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Robert Burkert
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Christoph Schnoor
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Dr Piotr Kwiatkowski, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Essen
Frances Wolf
Senior Associate
Hamburg, Hanover
Ruth-Maria Thomsen
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Jens Bock
Partner
Berlin
Doreen König
Partner
Berlin
Lisa Niesen
Senior Associate
Essen
Matthias Wagner
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Jan Lachhein
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Matthias Mehlwitz, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Essen
Katharina Stefanie Franke
Senior Associate
Essen
Dr Stefan Mager
Partner
Essen
Dr Sandra Bausch
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Dr Rut Herten-Koch, M.A.
Partner
Berlin
Paul Herter
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Nicole Bittlingmayer
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dianusch Nazari
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Laura-Jane Williams
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Stephan Rippert LL.M.
Partner
Munich
Stefanie Kandzia, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Jens Kaiser
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Anna-Sophia Riebeling
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Bela Jansen
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr jur Stephan Götze
Partner
Berlin
Dr Jan-David Jäger
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Lisa Marie Siewer, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Cologne
Dr Aline Mück
Senior Associate
Cologne
Volker von Alvensleben
Of Counsel
Hamburg
Pauline Müller
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Marco Arteaga
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Zacharias-Alexis Schneider, LL.B., LL.M.
Partner
Hanover
Marco-Marcel Niebuhr
Senior Associate
Hanover
Dr Oliver Maaz
Partner, Principal Consultant
Cologne
Daniel Greger
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Annkatrin Merzig
Senior Associate
Essen
Sarah Hossenfelder
Senior Associate
Essen
Darja Amelcenko, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Berlin
Nina Eckardt
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Susanne Burkert-Vavilova
Counsel
Essen
Tobias Osseforth, Mag. rer. publ.
Partner
Munich
Dr Stephen Lampert
Counsel
Munich
Jenny Schindler
Senior Associate
Munich
Sophie Schulz
Associate
Leipzig
Lea Franken
Associate
Dusseldorf
Iris Glönkler
Partner
Stuttgart
Charlotte Buck
Associate
Hanover
Annkathrin Egerer-Tratt
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Magnus Wessels
Associate
Essen
Dr Melanie Verstege
Counsel
Essen
Martina Steude, LL.M. (Cape Town)
Senior Associate
Hanover, Hamburg
Charlotte Jodocy
Senior Associate
Essen
Maria Marinez
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Nurolhaq Rostamzada
Senior Associate
Cologne
Nina Hahnke
Associate
Essen
Dr Lisa Kraayvanger
Senior Associate
Hanover
Caroline Ackermann
Counsel
Munich
Frederike Peters
Senior Consultant
Berlin
Sarah Peuser
Associate
Leipzig
Charlotte Riese
Senior Associate
Berlin
Theresa Oesch
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Simon Wickel
Associate
Dusseldorf
Luisa Kramer
Associate
Hamburg
Henrik Fischer
Associate
Leipzig
Dr Johannes Teichmann
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Rebecca Romig
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr.iur. Andreas Knaul, LL.M. diap (ENA)
Berlin
Marius Merfeld
Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Clara Schulze Velmede
Associate
Leipzig
Prof. Dr Johannes Beermann
Of Counsel
Berlin
Vera Wechsler, LL.M. (Tulane)
Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Andreas Vath
Partner
Munich
Artur Winkler
Counsel
Hamburg
Manuel Rueß
Associate
Hamburg
Lara Zölck
Associate
Berlin
Prof. Dr Christian Burholt, LL.M.
Partner
Berlin
Mathar Ahmed Bajwa, LL.M.
Associate
Cologne
Christoph Kolb
Associate
Leipzig
Oliver Glasen-Nitschke
Associate
Essen
Christoph Grünenthal, MLE
Associate
Berlin
Jakob Gauly
Associate
Dusseldorf
Katharina Foede
Associate
Berlin
Ahmed Zoughbi
Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Joanna Rupa-Sträßer, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Essen
Leonie Herwarth von Bittenfeld, LL.B., M.A.
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Eric Doyé
Associate
Leipzig
Susanne Winkler, LL.M.
Associate
Stuttgart
Kevin Oestreich
Senior Consultant
Essen
Dr Florian Hensel, LL.M.
Associate
Munich
Jan Spiering, LL.M. Taxation
Associate
Hanover
Clara von Wolffersdorff
Associate
Leipzig
Jade Timmermann, LL.M. (London)
Associate
Leipzig
Sabrina Behbehani
Associate
Munich
Leif Dustin Schneider
Counsel
Ho Chi Minh City
Ann-Kristin Freiheit
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Julia Walther
Associate
Leipzig
Peter Holan
Associate
Hamburg
Hannah-Laura Schütte
Senior Associate
Stuttgart, Dusseldorf
Elisabeth Kohoutek
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Ngoc Nhu Nguyen
Associate
Leipzig
Morten Steimann
Associate
Essen
Kati Gütschow
Associate
Dusseldorf
Oliver Köhler
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Thomas Willaschek
Partner
Berlin
Sophia Meyer, Maître en Droit
Associate
Berlin
Max H. Becker
Associate
Essen
Marie Hoster, LL.B.
Associate
Essen, Dusseldorf
Sebo-Franz Krubally
Senior Associate
Berlin
Dr Maximilian Bahnsen
Associate
Hamburg
Andy Schaal, LL.M.
Counsel
Berlin
Ricarda Maria Essel
Counsel
Berlin
Lisa Jennifer Schmölz
Counsel
Munich
Alexander F. Liebing, LL.M.
Counsel
Leipzig
Andrea Heim
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Aurélien Latouche
Partner
Luxembourg
Małgorzata Albe, LL.M.
Junior Consultant
Leipzig
Julian Plötz
Associate
Leipzig
Dr Astrid Seehafer, M.Sc.
Partner
Berlin
Julian Günniker
Essen
Tobias Jedermann
Associate
Leipzig
Dr Benjamin Effler
Associate
Berlin
Dr David von Saucken, MJur (Oxon)
Partner
Berlin, London
Simone Lersch
Counsel
Cologne
Shannon Charlotte Sopper, LL.M.
Junior Consultant
Frankfurt a.M.
Robert Schindler
Counsel
Essen
Jonathan Wrede
Associate
Berlin
Dr Denis Schütz
Senior Associate
Essen
Nina Klünker, LL.M. (KCL)
Associate
Berlin
Isabel Dorothee Ruhnke, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Berlin
Marielle Lorraine
Associate
Munich
Julian Pöhler
Counsel
Hamburg
Benedict Tobias Tiemann
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Georg Scherpf
Partner
Hamburg
Elisa Röhr
Associate
Dusseldorf
Lars Bollensen
Partner
Hamburg
Johannes Kugler
Associate
Munich
Charlotte Elsner
Associate
Dusseldorf
Lukas Erdmann
Associate
Berlin
Dr Jana Karras
Associate
Leipzig
Carla Witte
Counsel
Dusseldorf, Essen
Niklas Roth
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Vanessa Laura Skibinski
Associate
Berlin
Daniel Stracke
Associate
Berlin