Egon Schneider (lawyer)
Egon Schneider (born April 3, 1927 in Cologne ; † October 3, 2014 ) was a German judge .
Life
Schneider studied law at the University of Cologne and passed the first state examination in law in 1954 . In the same year he was awarded the dissertation Qualified by indebted consequence offenses Dr. jur. PhD. In August 1958, after completing his legal traineeship and the assessor exam, he joined the judicial service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . On May 1, 1962, Schneider was appointed regional judge at the Cologne Regional Court. There he was primarily in civil chambers working and devoted himself to even the training of legal trainees. The following incident was discussed from his training activities: Schneider gave the case of Des Esels Schatten to his trainee lawyers to work on and wrote an article about it in the legal newspaper (JZ). The question was whether the lease on a donkey gives the tenant the right to use the donkey's shadow in the midday heat. Schneider criticized the trainee lawyers because they worked on the case legally, although the dispute was not a “proper subject of (legal) scientific discussion”. Other judges contradicted this in the JZ.
In 1968 he moved to the Cologne Higher Regional Court , where he was appointed Higher Regional Court Councilor on March 1, 1969 . At the OLG he was a member of the 2nd civil senate from autumn 1968 until his retirement , which deals with enforcement and bankruptcy law as well as some areas of voluntary jurisdiction . Most recently he was deputy chairman of the Senate. After his retirement, which took place on May 1, 1989, Schneider still worked as a lawyer . Now independent, Schneider developed into a critic of his profession , which at times earned him the reputation of a dirty nest .
The lawyer at the Federal Court of Justice Ekkehart Reinelt wrote in his obituary : “Despite excellent grades and assessments, he deliberately refrained from chairing a senate at the Higher Regional Court. He feared that the prominent position could complicate his sustained criticism of the judiciary (for example in the 'Justice Mirror'). "
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Schneider was at times celebrated as the grand master of civil procedural law . Especially in the areas of legal education and civil procedure law, he established standard titles. Thus the works count logic for lawyers ; The tenor in civil judgments and judicial work techniques to this day in ever new editions of the classics of legal training literature . In addition, the standard comment is the value in dispute comment , which is now in its 12th edition. In addition, from the 12th to the 18th edition he was the editor of the well-known ZPO commentary by Richard Zöller . After retiring from the judicial service seemed Schneider also as co editor of the magazine for the practice of law , repeatedly explained to the sharp-tongued with his profession. In total, Schneider was responsible for over 1,000 publications .
Works (selection)
- Rejection of bias in civil proceedings , continued by Stephan Gronemann, 4th edition 2017, ZAP-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89655-864-0 .
- with Lotte Thiel: Civil procedural law of evidence: Basics and sources of error. LexisNexis Deutschland GmbH - ZAP Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89655-377-5 .
- Logic for lawyers , continued by Friedrich E. Schnapp , 6th edition, Vahlen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8006-2997-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Egon Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ekkehart Reinelt : Obituary Dr. Egon Schneider.
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- Winfried Schuschke, Egon Schneider on his 70th birthday , NJW 1997, 925
- Wilhelm Uhlenbruck , Egon Schneider on his 75th birthday , NJW 2002, 1028
Individual evidence
- ^ Winfried Schuschke Egon Schneider on his 70th birthday NJW 1997, 925
- ↑ Des Esels Schatten, JZ 1961, 212 (table of contents from JZ 1961). Retrieved May 26, 2015.
- ↑ Schneider's essay is quoted by Heribert Waider: The meaning of the doctrine of the subjective justification elements for the methodology and systematics of criminal law . Berlin, De Gruyter 1970, ISBN 978-3-11-000998-9 , p. 38.
- ↑ Editor: Brightness on the donkey's shadow. JZ 1961, 484. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Ekkehart Reinelt | Obituary Dr. Egon Schneider. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Bohlander, The judge as a disruptive factor , MDR 1995, 1093
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schneider, Egon |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and specialist author |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
DATE OF DEATH | 3rd October 2014 |