Heinrich Hoeniger
Heinrich Hoeniger (born December 26, 1879 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia , † April 14, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer , legal scholar and non-fiction author .
Life and work
Hoeniger, son of the Jewish banker Rudolf Hoeniger and his wife Bertha, b. Weissler, was baptized in the Evangelical Church in 1900, and later converted to Catholicism. He studied law at the universities in Halle , Heidelberg and Freiburg i. Br. In 1906 Gustav Rümelin received his doctorate as Dr. iur. with summa cum laude and in 1909 with Otto Lenel the habilitation in Freiburg i. Br. Hoeniger then taught in Freiburg as a private lecturer for Roman and civil law as well as for voluntary jurisdiction . In 1913 he was appointed full professor of civil law, commercial law and private insurance law, and in 1919 he received the status of a personal professor; In 1923 he was appointed professor of civil law, commercial and labor law and director of the seminar for insurance science and labor law. A major focus of his work was labor law , and he was also available as chairman of the arbitration committee in Freiburg for difficult cases.
Heinrich Hoeniger was full professor at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel ( Institute for World Economy ) from 1932 , then from 1934–1935 in Frankfurt am Main. In 1935 he was retired as a non- Aryan . He emigrated to the United States, where he was professor at Fordham University from 1939-1941 and at Hunter College in New York from 1941-1950 .
After retiring in 1950, he returned permanently to Germany and until 1960 taught civil law, labor and commercial law in Frankfurt am Main as a visiting professor , and until 1953 he also held guest lectures in Freiburg. In 1953 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Frankfurt and in 1959 the honorary plaque of the city of Frankfurt am Main .
His brother was the Reich judge Viktor Hoeniger (1870-1953).
Fonts (selection)
- Risky exercise of rights. Mohr Verlag, Tübingen 1917.
- (as editor :) Yearbook of Labor Law. 12 volumes, 1922-1932.
- Shipping Laws. Bensheimer Verlag, Leipzig 1925.
- Gustav Rümelin. In: Albert Krieger (Ed.): Badische Biographien . Part IV (1902-1911). Heidelberg 1927.
- Labor law: The imperial legal provisions on the employment relationship , Bensheimer Verlag, Leipzig 1928.
- Civil code and introductory law. 1930.
- Outline of labor law. In: Stammler's Encyclopedia. 1931.
- Bill of exchange and check law. Publishing house for law, Berlin 1933.
swell
- Heinrich Hoeniger . In: Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) . 1st edition. tape 5 : Hesselbach – Kofler . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-23165-2 , p. 98 .
- Ernst Gottfried Lowenthal: Jews in Prussia. A biographical directory . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-496-01012-6 , p. 96.
- Manfred Löwisch : Hoeniger, Heinrich. In: Bernd Ottnad (Hrsg.): Badische biographies new series . Volume 1, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007118-1 , pp. 177-178 ( leo-bw.de ).
- Georg Isele: Heinrich Hoeniger †. In: Legal journal . 1961, p. 333 (obituary)
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Hoeniger in the catalog of the German National Library .
- Literature by and about Heinrich Hoeniger in the bibliographic database WorldCat .
- Biography on the website of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Zeiler: “ Biographical sketches of the teaching staff of the Freiburg Faculty of Law in the years 1860-1918 ”, Freiburg 2008, p. 104 f. ( PDF ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoeniger, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, legal scholar and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ratibor , Upper Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1961 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |