Hermann Krawinkel

Hermann Krawinkel (born February 16, 1895 in Schalke / Westphalia ; † September 3, 1975 in Montreux / Switzerland ) was a German lawyer.

He was born Maximilian H. Schmitt and grew up in a world of an upper-class family, where there was nothing lacking in cultural and material goods, but he was often ill. He spent a year in the public school in Clifton / Great Britain .

He then completed a law degree at the University of Göttingen , which he completed in 1921 with a doctorate at the University of Göttingen (with Julius Hatschek ). He then worked as a trainee at Deutsche Bank in Munich . This was followed by a job with his uncle in a textile factory in Gummersbach . He adopted him, also to secure the company's succession. However, the takeover of the company failed.

In 1936, after returning to the university, he completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen (with Herbert Meyer ). He completed trial lectures for this at the University of Kiel , on March 13, 1938 he became a full professor at the University of Königsberg / East Prussia , from 1943 to 1945 he also taught at the University of Cologne . In 1945 he was briefly imprisoned by the British occupiers, but then continued to teach. In 1952 he received an appointment from the University of Cologne to the University of Marburg . Frequent illnesses bothered him again here. In 1963 he retired. This was followed by resettlement in Switzerland in self-chosen solitude, where he also died.

Krawinkel's areas of expertise were German legal history and private law. Krawinkel was a music lover and an in-depth knowledge of English law.

literature

• The concept of the prize according to English maritime law 1921 (dissertation)
• On the origin of the feudal system, Weimar 1936
• Investigations into the beginnings of the Carolingian benefit state, Weimar 1937 (habilitation thesis)
• Feudum, Youth of a Word - Language Study on Legal History, Weimar 1938 (Research on German Law Volume 3, Issue 2)
• Kürschner 1940/1941, 1950, 1954, 1961, 1966, 1970

• Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis II 1979, page 115
• An obituary appeared in: Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte 1977 pp. 441–447 (by Hans Hattenhauer )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Library Service Center Baden-Württemberg