Eike von Hippel

Eike von Hippel (born January 28, 1935 ; died January 28, 2016 ) was a German lawyer and scientist .

Origin and family

Eike von Hippel came from an originally bourgeois German family of civil servants from the East Prussian town of Rastenburg , which was raised to the Prussian nobility in 1790 and has since produced a large number of senior civil servants and scientists for the state. He himself was born in 1935 and, like many of his family members, studied law.

Life and career

After completing his law degree and doctorate to become a Dr. jur. he became an employee of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. He became Head of Unit for the United States Law Area. He completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg and was made an honorary professor there. He was a well-known and recognized scientist beyond Germany, whose numerous publications on questions of legal ethics and the Anglo-Saxon legal system attracted attention. He died in January 2016 on his 81st birthday.

Publications

• Limits and essence of fundamental rights , Duncker and Humblot, Berlin, 1965
• Replacement of liability by insurance , Metzner, 1979
• Basic questions of the world economic order , Beck, Munich, 1980
• The protection of the weaker , Mohr, Tübingen, 1982
• Consumer Protection , Toyo Kenzai, Tokyo, 1986
• Protection of the unborn child , Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 1991
• Legal Policy , Duncker and Humblot, Berlin, 1992
• Arbitrariness or Justice, Duncker and Humblot, Berlin, 1998
• Control of freedom of contract under Anglo-American law, Klostermann, Frankfurt / M., 2005
• The battleground of justice , Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin, 2009

Web links

• Literature by and about Eike von Hippel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary in the FAZ from February 13, 2016 , accessed on February 14, 2016
2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, pp. 229f.