Andreas Wacke

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Andreas Wacke (born April 28, 1936 in Breslau ) is a German law scholar and former university professor.

Life

Andreas Wacke is a son of the legal scholar Gerhard Wacke and Dorothea, b. Butcher. He studied law at the Universities of Münster , Hamburg and Pavia . In Hamburg, he passed his first state examination in law in 1960 and his second state examination in 1966. In 1962 he received his PhD under the supervision of Max Kaser Dr. iur. He then worked as a research assistant in Hamburg. In 1968 he moved to the University of Tübingen to Dieter Medicus , under whose supervision Wacke completed his habilitation in 1971 and received the Venia legendi for Roman law, civil law and civil procedure law.

From 1973 until his retirement in 2001, Wacke was Professor of Roman Law, Civil Law and Civil Procedure Law at the University of Cologne and Director of the Institute for Roman Law there. During his time as professor in Cologne, Wacke supervised 45 doctorates and three post-doctoral degrees ( Hans-Georg Knothe , Jürgen Kohler and Christian Baldus ). The universities of Szeged , Pretoria and Trnava each awarded him honorary doctorates .

Wacke has been married since 1964 and has two sons (* 1967 and 1969).

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Wacke's research focus in his more than 300 scientific articles is primarily on Roman law and legal history. However, he also published on modern civil law. For many years he was a commentator on numerous provisions on the general part of civil law and on family law in the Munich Commentary on the BGB.

  • Actio rerum amotarum. Theft between spouses under Roman law . Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne 1964 (dissertation).
  • The constitution of property as a substitute for transfer in legal history and legal dogmatics - origin, development and limits of the traditional principle in furniture law . Hanstein-Verlag, Cologne 1974 (habilitation thesis).
  • Unius poena - metus multorum . Jovene, Naples 2008.

literature

  • Hans-Georg Knothe, Jürgen Kohler: Status Familiae: Festschrift for Andreas Wacke on his 65th birthday . CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-406-47796-6 .
  • Peter Blaho (Ed.): Homagium Iuris: Ceremonial speeches for Andreas Wacke . Trnava 2008.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Wacke. In: Yu-cheol Shin; Hyung-Bae Kim (Ed.): Civil law teacher in the German language: teachers, students, works. Korea Univ. Press, Seoul 1988.
personal data
SURNAME Wacke, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and former university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw