The author examines whether the concept presented by the CJEU in its Kornhaas judgment of 2015 may also find application when seeking the personal liability of the members (shareholders) of an EU foreign company having its COMI in Germany. The background against which the following article considers this question is the legal concept of Existenzvernichtungshaftung —the personal liability of GmbH shareholders for ruining a company—as developed by the German Supreme Court of Justice. The author discusses the CJEU’s judgment in the Kornhaas case and its background and consequences, as well as briefly discusses separate corporate identity and its limitations, including theories of disregarding the autonomy of a corporation and its variation of Existenzvernichtungshaftung . On the basis of that analysis the author examines both the question of whether Existenzvernichtungshaftung is covered by lex fori concursus under the EIR and that of whether its application constitutes a restriction on the freedom of establishment under the rules developed in Kornhaas . In conclusion, the author analyzes the possible legal consequences of the views presented in this paper.

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从欧洲法院在科恩哈斯的判决看股东对公司破产的责任

作者考察了欧洲法院在其 2015 年科恩哈斯判决中提出的概念是否也适用于寻求在德国设有 COMI 的欧盟外国公司的成员（股东）的个人责任。下一篇文章考虑这个问题的背景是德国最高法院制定的 Existenzvernichtungshaftung 的法律概念——有限责任公司股东对破坏公司的个人责任。作者讨论了欧洲法院在 Kornhaas 案中的判决及其背景和后果，并简要讨论了单独的公司身份及其局限性，包括无视公司自主权的理论及其 Existenzvernichtungshaftung 的变体。在此分析的基础上，作者研究了 Existenzvernichtungshaftung 是否受 EIR 下的法院地法管辖的问题，以及其适用是否构成对 Kornhaas 制定的规则下的设立自由的限制。最后，作者分析了本文提出的观点可能产生的法律后果。