Dr. Volker Köhler was born in Hamm, North-Rhine Westphalia in 1976. After school he studied law at the University of Münster, North-Rhine-Westphalia. He completed his second law exam in 2005 and started to work at the University of Cologne in an Institute for European Law. He started to work as a judge in 2007 at the regional court of Cologne. In 2009 he was assigned to work as a prosecutor for one year. From 2010 he worked at the district court of Cologne in various divisions from civil law, criminal law and care law.

Since September 2019 he is assigned a position as legal officer in the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection in the division for Consumer Policy in the Information Society, Telecommunications ans Media Law. One of his main areas of responisbility is the network enforcement act.