Dr. Juliane Thimet is a legal scholar. Her international assignments took her, among other places, to Boulder, Colorado (USA), Strasbourg, and Chicago, where she worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). From 1991 to 2002, she headed the building departments at various district administrative authorities within the remit of the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior.

In 2003, she joined the Bavarian Association of Municipalities (Bayerischer Gemeindetag). There, she initially focused on the legal framework and financing of public services, specializing in municipal charges and fees law. In 2018, she broadened her professional focus and has since concentrated on water law. Drawing on her extensive expertise, she serves as a leading contributor to multi-volume legal commentaries on Municipal Charges and Local Law as well as Municipal Bylaw and Enterprise Law.

Today, the central focus of her work is soil and land stewardship. She heads the Water Division of the Interest Group for Healthy Soils (Interessengemeinschaft gesunder Boden), contributes her expertise to the Soil Forum of the Foundation for Art and Nature (Stiftung Kunst und Natur), serves on the advisory board of the start-up company Energyminer, and is a co-editor of the digital water knowledge platform knowH2O.

A cause particularly close to her heart is the preservation of cultural landscapes. She therefore plays a key role in the cooperative Weinhaus Wesenbach. Its core mission is to preserve, through a network-based and participatory model, the centuries-old viticultural structures of the Nahe region and the area surrounding the Disibodenberg monastery hill as a unique cultural heritage for future generations. Historic vineyards can also provide the basis for the production of non-alcoholic beverages. Against this background, the phrase “from water to wine” aptly describes her professional reorientation.