Ernst Heymann

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Ernst Heymann (born April 6, 1870 in Berlin , † May 2, 1946 in Tübingen ) was a German lawyer and legal scholar . He was a privy councilor .

In 1889 he passed the final examination at the Maria Magdalenen grammar school in Breslau . He then studied law until 1892 at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau . Heymann became a professor at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin in 1899 . In 1902 he was appointed to the chair of law at the Albertus University in Königsberg , and two years later he moved to the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1914 he returned to Berlin to the Friedrich Wilhelms University.

Heymann had been a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences since 1918 . In 1925 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1926 to 1938 he was secretary of the academy's philosophical and historical class, then initially acting vice-president until 1939 and finally vice-president from 1939 to 1942. For many years Heymann was chairman of the academy commissions “ German Legal Dictionary ”, “German Commission” and “ Vocabularium Iurisprudentiae Romanae ” as well as a judicial expert at the academy.

From 1926 Heymann was a scientific advisor to the Institute for Comparative and International Private Law of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science, today's Max Planck Society . From 1937 to 1946 he was director of the institute and scientific member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. From 1929 to 1932 and again from 1943 Heymann was a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society.

Heymann was - until 1938 provisional - successor to Ernst Rabel , who had been forced to step down by the Nazi regime. As part of the evacuation of Berlin, he and the staff of the institute moved to Tübingen in 1944. From 1931 to 1933 Heymann was President of the Legal Society in Berlin. He was also a member of the central management and head of the “Leges” department of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in May 1934 he was one of the founding members of the Committee for Legal Philosophy within the National Socialist Academy for German Law . In 1939 Heymann was a co-author of the Festschrift Deutsche Wissenschaft - work and task on Hitler's 50th birthday. The title of his contribution was German Commercial Law.

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  1. Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 113.
  2. MPI f. foreign u. int. private law: Development of the institute: establishment and expansion of a center for basic comparative law research , December 6, 2002.
  3. a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 253-254.
  4. ^ German science. Work and task. German science gives the Fiihrer and Reich Chancellor an account on his 50th birthday ... Leipzig: Hirzel 1939, pp. 66–68