Dieter Schwab

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Dieter Schwab (* 15. August 1935 in Würzburg ) is a German legal scholar and Emeritus Professor of Civil Law , German legal history and canon law .

Life

After studying law, Dieter Schwab received his doctorate in 1960 from the University of Würzburg with a dissertation on the Baron vom Stein. In 1966 he completed his habilitation at the Ruhr University in Bochum with Paul Mikat with a thesis on legal history. In 1968 he was appointed to the University of Giessen and appointed full professor. In 1974 he followed a call to the young University of Regensburg , whose law faculty he remained loyal to until his retirement in 2000 as a scientifically formative personality by rejecting calls from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität Bonn and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster .

He is a member of the Catholic student association KBSt.V. Rhaetia Munich .

The lawyer Martin Schwab is his son.

activity

Initially primarily interested in history, Dieter Schwab, as a university lecturer, turned more and more to family law , the development of which he significantly influenced through numerous publications, lectures and statements and which, as a whole, formed the focus of his academic work. His personal conviction as a Christian based on Catholic social teaching never prevented him from dealing openly and without prejudice with reforms of state family legislation - for example in the area of divorce law and the law of non-marital partnerships . In his lectures, he liked to combine the imparting of legal knowledge with suggestions for promoting general education , for example by recommending reading the writings of Karl Kraus and spicing up legal case studies with proper names from Richard Wagner's operas.

From his temporary participation as an expert in the ZDF television series “ How would you decide? "The popular guide" My rights in case of separation and divorce "was created.

Dieter Schwab is co-editor of the magazine for the entire family law (FamRZ).

Honors

In 2000 Dieter Schwab was honored by the series of events "Colloquia for Dieter Schwab on his 65th birthday", also documented in book form. In 2003 he was awarded the Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . The Friedrich Schiller University Jena awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2004 . On the occasion of his 70th birthday, a commemorative publication with the title “Perspektiven des Familienrechts” was published in 2005 . For his 75th birthday, his students brought out a collection of Schwabsch glosses under the title “Do you understand right?”.

student

Dieter Schwab produced three habilitation students, Diethelm Klippel (professor at the University of Bayreuth), Ute Walter (lawyer in Munich) and Martin Löhnig (professor at the University of Regensburg).

Works (selection)

  • The spiritual foundations of Freiherr vom Stein's idea of ​​self-administration (dissertation), 1960
  • Basics and form of state marriage legislation in the modern era up to the beginning of the 19th century (habilitation thesis), 1966, book edition 1967 ISBN 978-3-7694-0145-5
  • Introduction to civil law , 20th edition, 2016 (co-author Martin Löhnig)
  • Case training in civil law 1 , 6th edition 2016 (co-author Martin Löhnig)
  • Family Law (= Outline of Law ), 24th edition. 2016
  • Family law (= test your knowledge , vol. 5), 12th edition, 2013
  • Handbook of Divorce Law , 7th edition 2013
  • My rights in the event of separation and divorce , 8th edition, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personalities , website of the KBSt.V. Rhaetia Munich, accessed January 25, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Schwab, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg