Ernst Jaeger (lawyer)

Ernst Hermann Jaeger (born December 22, 1869 in Landau in the Palatinate ; † December 12, 1944 in Leipzig ) was a German legal scholar .

Ernst Jaeger (around 1899)

Life

Jaeger studied law in Strasbourg, Heidelberg, Leipzig and Erlangen. In 1892 he passed his first state examination and in 1895 the second state examination. He then worked at the Bavarian Ministry of Justice in Munich and as a district judge in his home town of Landau in the Palatinate. Due to his writing The bankruptcy of the general partnership (1897) he was appointed to an extraordinary professorship in Erlangen in 1899 without a habilitation process. In 1900 he moved to a full professorship at the University of Würzburg . In 1905 he accepted a professorship for civil procedure law at the University of Leipzig , where he worked until his retirement in 1935.

Jaeger achieved lasting importance above all with his work on bankruptcy law . Already in his dissertation with Konrad Hellwig from 1893 he dealt with a topic of bankruptcy law. In 1901, at the suggestion of Hermann Staub, he founded the major commentary on the bankruptcy code (now: Jaeger , Insolvency Code ), which he wrote as the sole author until the 7th edition (1936). After Jaeger's death, Friedrich Lent and Friedrich Weber initially continued the comment before Wolfram Henckel and Walter Gerhardt took over the editing. Jaeger's work found international recognition beyond Germany; for example, his conceptual work formed the basis for the renewed Japanese bankruptcy code of 1922.

Works

• The requirements of an estate bankruptcy , Erlangen 1893 (dissertation)
• The bankruptcy of the general partnership , Tübingen, 1897
• Bankruptcy Code , Berlin, 1st edition 1901 to 7th edition 1936 (large commentary)
• Textbook on German bankruptcy law , Berlin, 1932

literature

• Joachim Zahn:  Jaeger, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 275 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Wolfgang Bernhardt: Ernst Jaeger in memory. In: Zeitschrift für Zivilproceedings. 64, 1951, pp. 1ff.

Web links

• University of Leipzig: Ernst Jaeger Institute for Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Law founded (press release of February 23, 2009)
• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg: History of the chair of Ernst Jaeger
• Ernst Jaeger [Short autobiography of Jaeger with portrait photo]. In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung, Volume 14, 1909, pp. 1045f. ( Online edition )
• Overview of the lectures of Ernst Jaeger (lawyer) at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1905 to summer semester 1914)
• Ernst Jaeger (lawyer) in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig