Ernst Jacobi (lawyer)

Ernst Jacobi (born February 19, 1867 in Lübben , † July 2, 1946 in Freren ) was a German lawyer .

Life

The son of the district court counselor Ernst Jacobi and Johanna Kitz studied law at the universities of Breslau , Freiburg im Breisgau , Bonn and Berlin after graduating from high school in Frankfurt an der Oder . During his studies in 1886 he became a member of the KDStV Winfridia Breslau in the CV . He received his doctorate in 1897 in Breslau, where he received a teaching position before he was appointed to the newly founded law and political science faculty of the University of Münster in 1902 . There he received a chair for German legal history. In 1916/17 he was rector the University. Since 1904 he was a member of the Center Party .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was forced to resign from his position as dean of the law faculty for racial reasons , as two of his grandparents were Jewish. In 1934 he retired .

The parental family had converted from Judaism to Catholicism at the turn of the century . Jacobi married Elisabeth Vagedes in 1899 and had a daughter Therese (* 1902) and sons Martin (* 1900) and Ewald Felix (* 1907) with her.

Fonts

The rights of the special successor in the rights from the judgment to the issuance of the enforceable judgment. Dissertation University of Wroclaw, 1897
The securities in the civil law of the German Reich. G. Fischer, Jena 1901
The security as a means of legitimation. CH Beck, Munich 1906
The theory of declarations of will. CH Beck, Munich 1910
Outline of the law of securities in general. OR Reisland, Leipzig 1928
Bill of exchange and check law taking into account foreign law. de Gruyter, Berlin 1954–1955

literature

Gisela Möllenhoff; Rita Schlautmann-Overmeyer: Jewish families in Münster 1918 to 1945. Biographical lexicon. Westphalian Steam boat, Münster 1995, ISBN 3-929586-48-7
Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar . 1935

Individual evidence

↑ Complete directory of the CV The honorary members, old men and students of the Cartell Association (CV) of the cath. German student associations. 1912, Strasbourg i. Els. 1912, p. 93.

Web links

Literature by and about Ernst Jacobi in the catalog of the German National Library
Jacobi, Ernst at WorldCat

predecessor	Office	successor
Otto Seeck	Rector of the University of Münster 1916–1917	Hermann Ehrenberg

personal data
SURNAME	Jacobi, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 19, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luebben (Spreewald)
DATE OF DEATH	July 2, 1946
Place of death	Freren

[1] Complete directory of the CV The honorary members, old men and students of the Cartell Association (CV) of the cath. German student associations. 1912, Strasbourg i. Els. 1912, p. 93.