Bruno Marwitz

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Bruno Marwitz (born June 16, 1870 in Angermünde , † November 23, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German legal scholar and lawyer .

Life

Bruno Marwitz was born on June 16, 1870 in Angermünde . Nothing is known about his youth. After graduating, the doctor of law settled down as a lawyer in Berlin, where he was admitted to the regional court for over 40 years . In addition to his work in practice, he also published scientific specialist articles. His monograph The Stage Engagement Agreement on the legal relationships between actors and theater operators was a standard work of its time. He was also involved in the field of copyright law . In this field of law he was one of the most important German scientists of his time.

Together with his younger partner Philipp Möhring , he published an important commentary on the law on copyright in works of literature and music (LUG) in 1929 . Although Marwitz, as a Jew, was no longer allowed to practice as a lawyer after 1933, this book was still used in National Socialist Germany . Möhring dedicated the first edition of his commentary on the Copyright Act (UrhG), published together with Käte Nicolini, to the memory of Marwitz.

Even the Law on copyright in works of fine arts and photography (RHC), the second force in Germany until 1965 Copyright Act, authored Marwitz a much-publicized comment by one of Albert Osterrieth continued vested led work.

In addition, Marwitz published numerous articles on copyright law and copyright reform, mainly in the two specialist journals GRUR and Archive for Copyright, Film and Theater Law (UFITA). Among other things, he submitted a bill for a new UrhG there.

Marwitz died on November 23, 1939; According to contemporaries, he was “heartbroken” because of the conditions that the National Socialists had created in Germany. Marwitz himself was considered a patriot . He was politically active at a young age with the young liberals, where he worked with Arthur Dix and Hjalmar Schacht , among others . Later he was involved in the German Democratic Party and the German Fatherland Party . In the encyclopedia World Copyright, published from 1953 onwards . At Encyclopedia in Four Volumes , contributions on German copyright law, on which Marwitz had contributed, also appeared posthumously.

Bruno Marwitz's final resting place was in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Works (selection)

  • The stage engagement contract. A handbook for lawyers and laypeople . Berlin 1902.
  • Expansion or restriction of the group of those protected by copyright . In: GRUR 1926, 573 ff.
  • The copyright to works of literature and music in Germany. Commentary on the Reich Law of June 19, 1901/22. May 1910 and the international treaties of Germany . Berlin 1928 (together with Philipp Möhring ).
  • To reorganize literary copyright law . In: UFITA 1 (1928), 4 ff.
  • The copyright in works of fine arts and photography. Law of January 9, 1907 with d. Illustration from May 22, 1910 . 2nd edition, Berlin 1929 (founded by Albert Osterrieth ).
  • Draft law on copyright in works of literature, art and photography . In: UFITA 2 (1929), 668 ff.
  • Artist protection . In: UFITA 3 (1930), 299 ff.
  • Protection of the performing artist . In: UFITA 5 (1932), 507 ff.

literature

  • Gerhard Lüdtke (Ed.), Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1935 , 5th edition, Berlin 1935, keyword "Marwitz, Bruno".
  • [Paul] D. [Tuesday] , Judiciary Marwitz †. In: Copyright 5 (1939/1940), 345 f.
  • Horst Göppinger , lawyers of Jewish descent in the “Third Reich”. Disenfranchisement and persecution , 2nd edition, Munich 1990, p. 226.
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 257.
  • Annette Wigger, The Nathanael Church in Berlin-Friedenau during the time of the National Socialist regime . In: Yearbook for Berlin-Brandenburg Church History 2005, 129 (144–148)
  • Simon Apel: Bruno Marwitz (1870-1939) . In: Simon Apel, Louis Pahlow , Matthias Wießner (eds.): Biographisches Handbuch des Intellectual Property , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, pp. 199–203 = Journal for Intellectual Property 2018, 103–106.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ S. Göppinger, Jurists of Jewish descent in the "Third Reich" , p. 146 f.
  2. ^ Möhring, in: Möhring / Nicolini (eds.), Copyright Law. Commentary, Munich 1970, p. VII.
  3. ^ S. the Festschrift for Friedrich Hammacher , which was co-edited by them , A. Dix, B. Marwitz, O. Poensgen , H. Schacht, Berliner jungliberale Hammacher-Festschrift , Berlin 1904.
  4. ↑ HL Pinner (Ed.), World Copyright. An Encyclopedia in Four Volumes , Leyden 1953 ff.
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 754.
personal data
SURNAME Marwitz, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Angermünde
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1939
Place of death Berlin