Alfred Hueck

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Alfred Hueck (born July 7, 1889 in Lüdenscheid ; † August 11, 1975 in Munich ) was a German legal scholar and one of the most important lawyers of the first half of the 20th century.

The son of a factory owner attended secondary school in Lüdenscheid and graduated from high school there in 1908. Hueck studied law at the Universities of Freiburg , Munich and Münster . During his studies he became a member of the Zaringia Freiburg Academic Association . On February 13, 1914, at Erwin Riezler's suggestion and under the supervision of Ernst Jacobi, he received his doctorate with a thesis on incorporeal business values. After passing the second state legal examination on November 30, 1915, Hueck entered the higher judicial service in Prussia. From December 1918 he was a private lecturer in Münster. In 1925 he received the chair for commercial , labor and company law at the University of Jena . From 1926 to 1929 he also worked as a higher regional judge in Jena. He turned down a call to Heidelberg University in 1930. From 1936 until his retirement in 1958, Hueck held the chair for civil law, commercial, labor and business law as well as corporate law in Munich. In 1942, under pressure from the Gestapo , Hueck submitted an application for membership in the NSDAP , but was no longer accepted. On October 20, 1945, Hueck was removed from office by the military government in Bavaria, but reinstated in his office on July 3, 1946 and denazified as exonerated on January 24, 1949 .

Hueck's importance for law is diverse. Hueck wrote important papers on the collective agreement , labor law, preferred shares and the contestability and nullity of general meeting resolutions in stock corporations. Its specification of the general clauses in good faith in the protection against dismissal has long remained predominant. Hueck had been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1942 . The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1949 . In 1964 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit . In August 1965 he became a corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome. On May 1, 1970 he was awarded the Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit . The Federal President honored Hueck on September 7, 1970 with the Great Cross of Merit with a Star . In January 1960, he had already received the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic. Well-known students of Alfred Hueck are Wolfgang Zöllner and Herbert Wiedemann .

His son Götz Hueck is also a well-known legal scholar.

Publications (selection)

  • Outline of labor law , Vahlen, Berlin 1960, 5th edition, Vahlen, Munich 1970.
  • Dismissal Protection Act , Beck, Munich 1951, 9th edition, 1974.
  • Corporate law , Biederstein, Munich 1948, 17th edition, Beck, Munich 1975.
  • Law of Securities , Weidmann, Berlin 1936, 10th edition, Vahlen, Munich 1967.
  • (with Hans Carl Nipperdey and Rolf Dietz ): Law on the Order of National Work and Law on the Order of Work in Public Administrations and Companies. With the regulation on wage structuring and the war economy regulation. Commentary , Beck, Munich 1934, 4th edition, Munich 1943.
  • Employment contract law , Hess, Stuttgart 1922.
  • Termination and dismissal under applicable law. Systematic presentation of all provisions applicable to the termination system for entrepreneurs, employees and workers , Hess, Stuttgart 1921.
  • The law of the collective agreement with special consideration of the ordinance of December 23, 1918 , Vahlen, Berlin 1920.
  • Incorporeal business values. A contribution to the teaching of companies , jur. Dissertation Münster 1914.

literature

  • Claus-Wilhelm Canaris : memorial speeches on Alfred Hueck. Held at the academic memorial service on June 19, 1976 at the University of Munich, lecture hall 133. Munich 1976.
  • Christian Weißhuhn: Alfred Hueck, 1889–1975. His life, his work, his time (= legal historical series. Vol. 383). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58428-6 (also: Jena, University, dissertation, 2008) ( review ).
  • Wolfgang Zöllner : Alfred Hueck. Law teacher in the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship and the Federal Republic. In: Stefan Grundmann (Ed.): German-speaking civil law teachers of the 20th century in reports from their students. Vol. 1. De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89949-456-3 , pp. 131-148.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 63.
  2. ^ Christian Weißhuhn: Alfred Hueck, 1889-1975. His life, his work, his time. Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 106 ff.
  3. ^ Christian Weißhuhn: Alfred Hueck, 1889-1975. His life, his work, his time. Frankfurt am Main et al. 2009, pp. 173f.
personal data
SURNAME Hueck, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1975
Place of death Munich