Erich Sachers

Erich Sachers (born September 9, 1889 in Sarajevo , † October 4, 1974 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian legal scholar .

Life

Erich Sachers came from a family of civil servants. His father was Eduard Sacher's accountant, his mother the daughter of the Tyrolean accountant and lecturer Andreas Prosser (1805–1870). Erich Sachers grew up in Innsbruck, attended grammar school there (Matura 1908) and from 1909 studied law at the University of Innsbruck . From 1911 to 1912 he did his military service as a one-year volunteer . On March 17, 1914 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . During the First World War he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in Galicia , where he was wounded and received several awards. In 1915 he was taken prisoner in Italy, from which he was released in 1919. He returned to Innsbruck as a first lieutenant in the reserve, where he passed the judge's examination in 1920 and worked as a district judge from 1922.

In addition to the judge's office, Sachers pursued an academic career. In order to deepen his studies, he went to the University of Munich to study Leopold Wenger and to the University of Vienna to study with Friedrich von Woess . In 1928 he received a position as assistant for comparative private law and Roman law with Otto Eger at the University of Giessen , where he qualified as a professor in 1929 for these subjects as well as ancient legal history .

In the same year, on November 1, 1929, Sachers accepted a call to the University of Graz as an associate professor for Roman law and labor law. From 1931 he was a member of the Academic Senate. On June 19, 1935, he was appointed full professor. The annexation of Austria endangered his career. He was removed from the Senate in 1938 and banned from teaching. Sacher was for the Nazis as a monarchist. His home was searched several times. On July 8, 1939, he was arrested by the Gestapo and held in custody until January 1940. He was sentenced to five months in prison based on false testimony. After his release he took part in the French campaign as an officer , but in 1942 he was discharged from the Wehrmacht as "politically unreliable" .

The end of the Second World War saw Sachers as a private scholar. Shortly after the end of National Socialism, he was recalled to the University of Graz in 1945, but only as an associate professor. Not until 1949 did he get his chair back. In 1950 he moved to the chair for civil procedural law at the University of Innsbruck , where he served as dean of the law faculty in 1951/1952 and 1957/1958. In the year before his retirement (1958/1959) he was elected rector of the university.

In his lectures, Sachers dealt with Austrian civil law, civil procedural law, labor law and international private law. His own academic work dealt with issues of current law as well as legal history. His main research focus was on ancient legal history. He has written several in-depth studies and articles for the Real Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity (RE). For the journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History , he created extensive general registers for volumes 1–50 (1932) and 51–75 (1967–1970).

Fonts

• Custodia and periculum for mandatory contracts in classical Roman law . Habilitation thesis (unprinted), 1929
• Rural inheritance law . Graz 1935
• The historical school of Savigny and Roman law . In: Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Diritto Romano, Bologna, II . Pavia 1935, pp. 215-250
• The liability of the non-commissioned manager . In: Studia et Documenta Historiae et Iuris . 4th year (1938), p. 309ff.
• Modern labor law. Changes and advances . Innsbruck 1959

literature

• Arnold Herdlitczka : Erich Sacher's 60th birthday . In: Anzeiger für die Altarwissenschaft . Volume 2 (1949), pp. 97-98
• Gunter Wesener : Erich Sachers (1889–1974) . In: Studia et documenta historiae et iuris . Volume 41 (1975), pp. 653-655
• Franz Horak : In memoriam Erich Sachers † . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Romance Department . 92: 489-491 (1975)
• Peter Goller: History of Labor Law in Austria. Studies on Isidor Ingwer (1866–1942) and Eduard Rabowsky (1911–1994) . Vienna 2004