Elmar Bund

Elmar Bund (born March 13, 1930 in Konstanz , † April 19, 2008 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German legal historian.

Life

Elmar Bund, the eldest son of the senior student councilor Alfred Bund, was born in Konstanz and grew up in Villingen , where his father worked as a student councilor. Elmar Bund attended elementary school in Villingen and, from 1940, the humanistic branch of the high school for boys. On September 1, 1944, the school was closed and the federal government had to do digging work in Alsace with his fellow students of the same age. In October, the federal government was obliged to serve in the SABA plants , which were completely destroyed a few weeks later. After the end of the war, the Bund worked as an unskilled worker in the reconstruction of the Villingen depot from June to October 1945. He did not resume secondary school until 1946 and passed his Abitur with distinction in May 1949.

Federal started his studies in the winter semester of 1946/1947 at the University of Freiburg . He studied law with a focus on legal philosophy and ancient legal history. His main academic teacher was Fritz Pringsheim . After the first state examination in law in the summer of 1953, Bund worked on his dissertation on the Roman easements, with which he received his doctorate in 1955 . In addition to his doctorate, Bund had started the preparatory service for the second state examination, but interrupted it to study in Florence with Gian Gualberto Archi and in Rome with Edoardo Volterra . In 1957 he passed the second state examination and in 1958 accepted an assistant position at the Institute for Legal History at the University of Freiburg. In 1959 he married Ilse Weiss, with whom he had two daughters.

The federal government remained connected to the University of Freiburg until the end of his life. After his habilitation , he taught as a private lecturer, from 1969 as an extraordinary professor and from 1978 as a full professor. In Freiburg he was the first and for a long time the only lawyer who dealt with legal informatics. After the death of his friend and relative, the legal philosopher Gerhart Husserl , he took over the representation of copyrights from his father Edmund Husserl . On April 19, 2008, Elmar Bund died at the age of 78 in his retirement home in Freiburg-Landwasser .

Bund is known to a larger audience as the author of legal handbooks, including Civil Law for Economists (1979. ³1993) and Introduction to Legal Informatics (1991). He also wrote numerous legal commentaries and studies on the method of the Roman jurists.

Web links

• Literature by and about Elmar Bund in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary by the Institute for Legal History at the University of Freiburg