Eduard Reimer

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Grave of Eduard Reimer in the forest cemetery in Munich-Solln

Eduard Reimer (born December 8, 1896 in Berlin , † June 5, 1957 in Nice ) was a German lawyer .

Life and work

Eduard Reimer was born in Berlin on December 8, 1896. He was a descendant of Eduard von Samson , the first president of the Reich court . Reimer took part in the First World War and studied law. He was promoted to Dr. iur. doctorate and in 1924 as a lawyer only at the Berlin Regional Court later in Superior Court approved, specializing in copyright and patent law . As a lawyer, he worked in a law firm with Hermann Isay and Rudolf Isay , who had already gained a reputation for being experts on trademark and copyright law in the 1920s . While Dr. Rudolf Isay emigrated to Brazil in 1935, Dr. Hermann Isay and Reimer are back in Berlin.

In his professional life Reimer was exposed to disadvantages because of his Jewish ancestors under National Socialist rule, despite his proven specialist knowledge. However, since only one of his parents was of Jewish origin, Reimer was in accordance with the Nuremberg Laws unlike its equity partners Isay not as a "Jew" but merely as " Jewish Mischling first degree ," he that even after 1938 to 1945 his Admitted retained.

After the end of the war, the occupation authorities appointed Eduard Reimer as chief magistrate at the Blankenburg district court in Blankenburg (Harz) . Reimer returned to Berlin in 1947 and was again licensed as a lawyer and notary . Reimer also taught first at the Humboldt University and later at the Free University . On October 1, 1949, Reimer was appointed President of the German Patent Office in Munich, which was re-established in the United Economic Area, which from 1950 was called the German Patent Office. In 1952 Reimer also took over the management of the “Institute for Foreign and International Patents, Trademarks and Copyright ” founded at Munich's Ludwig Maximilians University , today's Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law . Reimer died unexpectedly during the diplomatic conference on the revision of the Madrid trademark agreement in southern France. Herbert Kühnemann succeeded him as President of the German Patent Office .

Works

In 1933 Reimer wrote a commentary on competition and trademark law, which was published in 1935 by Carl Heymanns Verlag ; the remaining copies of the first edition were destroyed because Reimer described boycotts against Jewish business people as an immoral violation of the general clause of § 1 of the Act against Unfair Competition . In 1955 Reimer published a monograph on the “Europeanization of Patent Law”, and in 1956 he published a commemorative publication entitled “Contributions to Competition Law” on the occasion of the 70th birthday of his former partner Rudolf Isay . Reimer is also the founder of a commentary on the patent law , the third edition of which was last published in 1968.

literature

  • Martin Otto: Eduard Reimer (1896-1957) . In: Simon Apel / Louis Pahlow / Matthias Wiessner (eds.), Biographical Handbook of Intellectual Property. Mohr Siebeck , Tübingen 2017, pp. 235–239. ISBN 978-3-16-154999-1
  • Eugen Ulmer : Eduard Reimer . In: Archive for Copyright, Film, Radio and Theater Law (UFITA) . tape 24 , 1957, pp. 165-166 . [Obituary]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simone Ladwig-Winters : Lawyer without law. The fate of Jewish lawyers in Berlin after 1933 . 2nd edition Berlin 2007 p. 244
  2. ^ Günther Roßmanith: Sense of justice and decision-making. Hermann Isay 1873-1938 . Berlin 1975
  3. ^ Felix Gaul: The lawyer Rudolf Isay (1886-1956). A responsible mediator in the field of tension between the dynamic creation of law, economic change and technical progress . Frankfurt a. M. 2005
  4. ↑ Simone Ladwig-Winters: Lawyer without law. The fate of Jewish lawyers in Berlin after 1933 . 2nd edition Berlin 2007 pp. 182, 244
  5. ↑ Rudolf Isay: From my life . 1960 Weinheim
  6. ↑ Simone Ladwig-Winters: Lawyer without law. The fate of Jewish lawyers in Berlin after 1933 . 2nd edition Berlin 2007 p. 244
  7. ^ Albrecht Krieger: Hörsaal 113 In: Harm Peter Westermann / Wolfgang Rosener (eds.), Festschrift for Karlheinz Quack on his 65th birthday on January 3, 1991, pp. 1–12
  8. ^ Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Chronicle of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1948-1998. 2 volumes. Berlin 1998
  9. ^ Albrecht Krieger: Hörsaal 113 In: Harm Peter Westermann / Wolfgang Rosener (eds.), Festschrift for Karlheinz Quack on his 65th birthday on January 3, 1991, pp. 1–12
personal data
SURNAME Reimer, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1957
Place of death Nice