Alex Meyer

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Alex Meyer (born December 15, 1879 in Berlin , † August 21, 1978 in Zurich ) was a German law scholar and university professor . He was particularly active in the field of aviation law and is considered one of the most important German aviation lawyers.

Life

Meyer was born the son of the Prussian civil servant Paul Meyer (1844–1925) and his wife Helene (1857–1898). After attending school in Cologne and Elberfeld , he studied law and political science in Geneva , Munich , Berlin and Bonn . In 1902 he took his legal traineeship in Cologne and then did his doctorate in Leipzig on the subject of the concept and protection of credit in the BGB . In 1907 he passed the great state examination in Berlin and in 1913 became a district judge in Stettin . From 1914 to 1917 he served in the army and then went through various functions in the Reich Administration of the Interior and the Justice, the Reich Chancellery and the government in Düsseldorf . In 1938 he was offered a position at the University of New York , but the issuing of the exit visa for the Jewish Alex Meyer was delayed until he had to refuse the offer. In 1939 Meyer emigrated to Zurich.

After the war in 1950 Meyer received a teaching position at the University of Cologne , where he taught aviation law. There, in 1951, he initiated the reopening of the Institute for Aviation Law founded by Prof. Otto Schreiber in Königsberg in 1925 , which had to be closed during World War II. The institute was initially called “Research Center for Aviation Law”, but was later renamed “Institute for Air Law and Space Law Issues”. From 1952 the magazine for air law and space law issues (today's magazine for air and space law (ZLW)) was published there. In 1953 Meyer was appointed honorary professor at the University of Cologne and taught there until 1974.

In addition, he was chairman of the Legal Committee of the Aviation Council in the Federal Ministry of Transport , the Legal Committee of the DGLR and the Aviation and Space Law Committee of the German group of the International Law Association . Meyer was also a member of the Air Transport Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce , the American Society for International Law and the Instituto de Derecho Aeronautico y Interplanetario in Buenos Aires .

Fonts

Meyer has dealt with this matter since the early phase of aviation law and, since its first publication in 1908, has focused on the subject of the development of airspace and its legal consequences in a total of 211 publications at home and abroad with the various questions of air law and later also the Space right apart. This work earned him the nickname "Nestor of German Air Law".

  • Aviation under martial law , Frankfurt a. M.
  • Overview of the development of air law , yearbook of international law 1912, special edition, pp. 1445-1452
  • The aviation compensation law according to current law and de lege ferenda , Frankfurt a. M. 1913
  • The law of neutrality in the aerial warfare , Berlin 1931
  • Freedom of the air as a legal problem , Zurich 1944
  • Offenses on board aircraft , air defense and technology 1946, pp. 93–95

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative pamphlet in honor of Alex Meyer. Heymann, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-452-18715-2 ( magazine for air and space law 28, 4), pp. VII, X.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and aviation law expert
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1978
Place of death Zurich