German Legal Historians' Day

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The German Legal Historians' Day has been a specialist conference for German-speaking legal historians that has been held every two years since 1927 . It is considered the most important legal history congress in the German-speaking area.

history

The German Legal Historians' Day began in 1927 with a specialist congress of legal historians from all directions, which met in Heidelberg at the suggestion of Heinrich Mitteis and was chaired by Leopold Wenger . Other such meetings took place in 1929 in Göttingen and in 1932 in Jena . Graz was originally planned as the third conference location . As a result of the banking crisis , however, it had to be canceled because fees for trips abroad would have been incurred due to an emergency ordinance. The legal historians' day was consolidated in the form of an association. In addition to research contributions in the classic fields of Romance studies, German studies and canon studies, the Legal Historians Day dealt from the outset with the importance of legal history for legal training as well as with cuneiform and Egyptian law .

At the following legal historians' days in Cologne in 1934 and Tübingen in 1936, the importance of German national German studies was emphasized in line with the National Socialist ideology. Racist contributions mainly led to tensions with the more internationally oriented Romance studies. But representatives of the latter also made racist contributions. A conference originally planned for 1938 in Breslau was postponed to 1939 and was then canceled due to the outbreak of war . After the end of the war, a first, small conference took place in Magdeburg in 1947 , at which a further official German Legal Historians' Day was organized in Heidelberg in 1949, which was immediately followed by the reconstitution of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers. In terms of content, one tied in with the legal history days of the late Weimar period. Further conferences took place in 1951 in Vienna / Gmunden , 1952 in Würzburg and 1954 in Hamburg , where attempts were also made to emphasize normality and task continuity. The role of legal history in National Socialism was not the subject of lectures and controversies; A methodological discussion that took place outside of the conferences was quickly settled. At the legal historians' day in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1956, the steadily growing number of participants and the restored internationality were praised. In particular, legal historians such as Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher , Rolf Lieberwirth and Gerhard Buchda from the GDR were able to participate.

From the construction of the Berlin Wall onwards , the Legal History Days primarily reflected the western history of science in the subject, such as the crisis after 1968 and the emergence of a European research association, as well as the dissolution of the strict separation of Romance studies and German studies and the opening up to methodological discussions among historians. After reunification , two smaller conferences took place in Frankfurt am Main in 1992 and 1992, from which the Forum for Young Legal Historians emerged in 1994 . This is now pan-European and takes place annually.

Since 2008, the German Legal Historians' Day has awarded a prize for outstanding work by young academics, and since 2010 the Hermann Conring Prize for outstanding research achievements.

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  1. ↑ www.rechtshistorikertag.de/verleihungslösungen (accessed October 1, 2018)