WINNING TRUST

Individuals with one common goal: the success of our clients

The law firm Fiedler, Zmija & Partners was founded in 1977 by Jann Fiedler, Frauke Reeckmann-Fiedler and Lothar Zmija in Berlin. Over the years further partners have been added. Many of our clients have depended on our consistency and reliability since those early years.

Lothar Zmija

Lothar Zmija is one of the founding associates of the firm. Before this he worked in the legal department of a renowned Berlin credit institution. Lothar Zmija became a notary in 1986.
Lothar Zmija’s main point of interest is the business practices of small and medium companies. These companies form the backbone of the German economic sector. They don’t have their own legal departments and are particularly reliant on quality legal advice.

Michael Bechtold

After completing his studies in Bavaria, he was drawn to Berlin: Michael Bechtold was admitted to the bar in 1986, has been a partner in the firm since 1989 and a notary in Berlin since 1998.
Since then, Michael Bechtold’s day-to-day work has been dominated by property and company law, as well as inheritance law. Please do not hesitate to contact Michael Bechtold whenever solutions need to be found regarding questions of any kind in the aforementioned areas of law.

Michael-Franz Pietzcker

Michael-Franz Pietzcker studied law and history at the universities of Tuebingen, Freiburg and Pisa. After working for the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law at the University of Freiburg, he joined up in 1995 with an international firm of lawyers in Berlin. He is a certified specialist lawyer for building and architectural law and is a notary since 2007.

Dott. Francesca Rosati

Dott. Francesca Rosati is a native of Rome and studied legal sciences at the University La Sapienza in Rome, finishing her studies with a work on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. After studying law sciences further in Hamburg and taking both judicial state exams in Germany, Mrs. Rosati then joined an international law firm in Berlin.

Christina Sieger

Christina Sieger studied law sciences in Bielefeld and Berlin. From 1997 Christina worked at a business law firm in Berlin in a research capacity, working as a lawyer there from 2002 until 2008 – from 2003 as partner – with her specialist fields being family law and property rental law. She is a certified specialist in family law since 2010.

Christoph Weber

Christoph Weber studied law in Freiburg and Sydney. He has been active as a lawyer and mediator in Berlin since 2008.
Christoph specialises in the areas of inheritance law and family law, as well as international civil law. He offers mediation – also long distance – which allows for fair solutions of conflicts that save both time and money.

Andrea Alder

Andrea Alder joined our firm in 2017, specialising in family law and general civil law. She successfully completed the specialist family law course in 2014 and previously completed further training as a mediator.

Martin Stefanelli-Leis


Attorney Martin Stefanelli-Leis studied law at the Free University of Berlin. In the course of his studies, he deepened his knowledge of tenancy law, consumer private law, general terms and conditions law and insurance law.

Contact our law firm

Our law and notary’s office is located in Berlin-Charlottenburg in the immediate vicinity of the underground station Uhlandstraße, and is also easily accessible on foot from the underground stations Kurfürstendamm or Spichernstraße.
Bus 249 stops near the office.

Appointments can be made by telephone or email.