Dietrich A. Loeber

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Dietrich André Loeber (born January 4, 1923 in Riga ; † June 24, 2004 in Hamburg ) was a German-Baltic legal scholar.

Life

Dietrich André Loeber's parents were constitutional judge August Loeber , who came from a German Baltic family, and his wife Emilie nee. Mentzendorff .

He grew up in his hometown and attended the Classical Gymnasium in Riga. As a result of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact , his family had to leave Latvia for resettlement in 1939 . Like most Baltic Germans, she came to the Wartheland . After graduating from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Posen , Loeber served from 1941 to 1945 with the Brandenburgers , a special group of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris . From 1946 he studied law at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1951 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. He also holds a diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law and a master's degree from Columbia University . From 1953 he was a lawyer in Munich and Hamburg and from 1955 to 1960 editor of the journal Osteuropa-Recht . From 1958 to 1966 he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law . In 1966 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg . From 1966 to 1989 he was full professor of law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and headed the "Institute for Law, Politics and Society of the Socialist States" founded by Boris Meissner in 1959 . He was visiting professor at Lomonosov University Moscow (1961), Harvard Law School (1963/64), University of California, Los Angeles (1970, 1974), Stanford University (1971, 1973) and Columbia University ( 1980-1981, 1983).

Services to Latvia and Estonia

At the end of 1988 and 1989 Loeber gave lectures in Estonia and Latvia on the Hitler-Stalin Pact, which was then denied in the Soviet Union . In October 1990, Loeber brought a self-published version of the Latvian Civil Code of 1937 with him to the first Latvian legal congress after perestroika . After 1991 Loeber gave regular lectures at the University of Tartu , Tallinn University and the University of Latvia . He supported the development of the Mentzendorff House in Riga to a large extent .

Engagement with the Baltic Germans

Since 1975 he has been a member of the Baltic Historical Commission , member of the board of the Carl Schirren Society (1969–1971, 1990–1997), and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the foundation named after Karl Ernst von Baer (1978–1996). Furthermore, Loeber was a member of the Fraternitas Dorpatensis in Munich and founder of the Corona Dorpatensis. He was also a Fiduz member of the Fraternitas Rigensis.

Honors

Fonts

  • Article in the Baltic Yearbook of International Law, 2001
  • 800 years - our common Riga , Riga, 2001
  • German policy towards Estonia and Latvia. The resettlement of the German-Baltic ethnic group under the sign of the secret agreement with the Soviet Union in 1939 . In: Hitler, Germany and the Powers. Materials on the foreign policy of the Third Reich , 1976, pp. 657–683.
  • Secret protocols of the "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact" - untenable. On the decision of the Congress of People's Deputies of December 1989 . Eastern Europe Archive 1990, pp. A 623-A 625.
  • with Boris Meissner and Cornelius Hasselblatt: Building a free-democratic order in the Baltic States . State, Economy, Society, 1995
  • East-West Trade. A Sourcebook on the International Economic Relations of Socialist Countries and Their Legal Aspects , 1977
  • Dictated Option - The Resettlement of the Baltic Germans from Estonia and Latvia 1939-1941 , Documentation, 1972
  • The Riga Classical Gymnasium 1919–1939. A reminder . Hamburg 1970.
  • Copyright of the Soviet Union. Introduction and sources , Frankfurt a. M. 1966.

literature

  • Donald D. Barry (Ed.): Law and the Gorbachev era. Essays in honor of Dietrich André Loeber , Nijhoff, Dordrecht 1988 (Law in Eastern Europe, Volume 39), ISBN 90-247-3678-1 .
  • Tālavs Jundzis (ed.): The Baltic States at Historical Crossroads. Political, economic, and legal problems in the context of international cooperation on the doorstep of the 21st century. A collection of scholarly articles, published in rememberance of senator August Loeber and the 75th birthday of Professor Dietrich André Loeber . Riga 1998, ISBN 9984-9085-8-5 .
  • Nora Rutka: Dietrich André Loeber . In: Ilze Krokša, Aina Balaško (ed.): Vācu kultūra Latvijā. Ieskats vācu-latviešu novadu kultūras un vācu biedrību vēsturē = German culture in Latvia. Insight into the history of the German-Latvian regional cultures and the German club history . Latvijas Vācu Savienība, Riga 2009, ISBN 978-9984-39-832-7 , p. 31.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nora Rutka: Dietrich André Loeber . In: Ilze Krokša, Aina Balaško (ed.): Vācu kultūra Latvijā . Latvijas Vācu Savienība, Riga 2009, p. 31.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The marriage law of the Soviet Union and its application in international private law in Germany .
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: The sovereignly designed contract. A comparative study of the planned contract in Soviet law and the “dictated contract” in the law of the Federal Republic of Germany .
  4. ↑ The institute . Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ Album fratrum Dorpatensium No. 51
  6. ^ Alfred Schönfeldt : Corona Dorpatensis. Album fratrum 1947-1967 . Marburg 1967. No. 5.
  7. ↑ Album Fratrum Rigensium No. 1301.
  8. ↑ Domus Rigensis: Commemorative plaques and monuments , accessed on August 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Loeber, Dietrich A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loeber, Dietrich André (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2004
Place of death Hamburg