Claudius of Schwerin

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Claudius Wilhelm Engelbert Franz Johann Maria Freiherr von Schwerin (born September 2, 1880 in Passau , † June 13, 1944 in Munich ) was a German legal historian .

Life

Claudius von Schwerin was the son of Senate President Johannes von Schwerin (1846–1928) and his wife Friederike (1853–1930).

In 1898 he passed the Abitur as an external student at the Gymnasium Fridericianum Erlangen . He first studied musicology at the University of Munich , then law. During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich in the special houses association . The topic of his dissertation from 1904 was: Contributions to the explanation of the concept of legal succession in current civil law. In the same year he passed the first state examination in law, followed by the second state examination in 1905. In 1907 he completed his habilitation with the legal historian Karl von Amira and in the same year became a private lecturer in Munich. In 1914 he became associate professor at the University of Berlin , in 1917 a full professor in Strasbourg , and in 1919 a full professor at the University of Freiburg i. Br. And in 1935 as the successor to Heinrich Mitteis on the chair of his teacher Karl von Amira, full professor in Munich.

Schwerin's research focus was the Nordic-Germanic legal history; he mastered the Old Norse language “like no other of the younger legal historians.” According to Wolfgang Simon, he was “one of the most important German legal historians of his time, whose work received attention not only in northern European countries but also in the Romance-speaking area. Schwerin's legal history work is characterized by a special emphasis on Germanic, as the basic principles of which he identified values ​​such as loyalty, honor and community, which he also transferred to current affairs ... “He was a member of the Association of National Socialist German Jurists and since 1937 of the NSDAP . During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the DNVP . Many of his publications were permeated by the Nazi spirit, which relativizes "the importance of his complete works for today's legal historical research". Since 1942 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

He and his wife died in an air raid on Munich in 1944. His estate is in the university archive of the University of Freiburg. Of his three children, only his eldest son Olaf survived, but he also died in Budapest in 1945.

Publications (selection)

  • The old Germanic Hundred. (Habilitation thesis), Breslau 1907. (New print Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1973, ISBN 978-3-511-04090-1 ).
  • German legal history , Teubner, Leipzig 1912.
  • Basic features of German private law , Berlin 1919, 2nd edition, De Gruyter, Berlin 1928.
  • Basics of German legal history . 8th edition concerned after the author's death, Duncker u. Humblot, Munich 1930.
  • Bill of exchange and check law including the basic concepts of securities law , 2nd edition, De Gruyter, Berlin 1934.
  • Introduction to legal archeology , Verlag der Ahnenerbe-Stiftung, Berlin 1943.
  • Germanic legal history. Berlin 1936, 2nd edition. Junker & Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1944.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 120.
  2. ↑ Gerhard Köbler. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ Hans Fehr, p. 100.
  4. ↑ Simon, NDB.
  5. ↑ Köbler, p. 465.
  6. ↑ Simon, NDB.
  7. ^ Claudius Freiherr von Schwerin obituary in the 1945 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
personal data
SURNAME Schwerin, Claudius von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwerin, Claudius Freiherr von; Schwerin, Claudius Wilhelm Engelbert Franz Johann Maria Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1944
Place of death Munich