Ernst Klingmüller

Ernst Klingmüller (born September 29, 1914 in Berlin ; † May 10, 2006 in Cologne ) was a German orientalist and lawyer .

Life

Klingmüller passed his Abitur at a humanistic grammar school . He had already started studying Arabic as a schoolboy . He studied law and oriental studies at the University of Berlin . In 1936 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD with the text The History of the Wafd Party (doctoral supervisor Richard Hartmann ). After that, Klingmüller was a consultant for the Arab world in the Research Office of the Reich Aviation Ministry until the end of the Second World War . On May 1, 1937, Klingmüller became a member of the NSDAP (membership no. 5.916.295). In 1941 he became a member of the German Oriental Society (DMG) . In 1943 he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Foreign Studies at the University of Berlin with the text The correspondence between Sir Henry Mc Mahon and the Sherif of Mecca, Husain. In the same year he was a member of the board of the German Society for Islamic Studies . At the end of 1944, Klingmüller was appointed private lecturer at the University of Berlin, which he remained until the end of the war.

During the Nazi era, Klingmüller expressed himself in various articles on topics from the Middle East such as Egypt or Iraq in a racial , anti-Semitic , Anglophobic and anti-American way . This is how he expressed himself in relation to the "racial structure" of Egypt, entirely following Hans FK Günther's schemes:

“The Mediterranean race is the main basis, in addition to which there is a rather heavy impact of Negro and Hamite blood . Another component is the oriental breed; furthermore some incursions of the Near East, the Nordic and perhaps traces of the Pygmy race. "

In 1951 and 1952, Klingmüller completed his habilitation at the TH Karlsruhe , where he also worked as a private lecturer for modern oriental studies as well as folklore and regional studies of the Arab Orient. Also in the immediate post-war period, he worked in the field and inside sales of an insurance company until he took over the management of the Versicherungswirtschaft publishing house and the editing of the insurance industry and insurance law magazines in 1955 (the latter was in charge of the insurance until 1989); Klingmüller's mentor in his insurance career was Alex Möller . In 1959 he initiated the Karlsruhe Forum, which he also headed for years.

For the winter semester 1961/62, Klingmüller was a full professor at the newly created chair for insurance law, civil law and commercial law at the law faculty of the University of Cologne. At the same time, he was a senior judge at the insurance senate at the Koblenz Higher Regional Court for about ten years . At the university, Klingmüller taught German law (primarily liability law , in particular doctor's liability law and its insurance coverage ), but also Islamic law , later also together with Erwin Gräf and Abdoldjawad Falaturi . In 1982 he retired. From 1988 he held lectures on insurance law as an honorary professor for several semesters at the University of Karlsruhe. From about 1979 to mid-1999 he worked at the Administration and Business Academy in Cologne.

Until 1995, Klingmüller published regularly on questions of Sharia law, including the idea of legality in Islamic law (1962), the emergence and change of legal traditions in Islamic law (1980), the early Islamic libraries and jurisprudence (1985) and the evaluation of fertilization in the Islamic Law (1995). A special focus was the investigation of the relationship between Sharia and the Institute of Insurance (articles 1957, 1958, 1967 and 1986).

At the end of 1997, Klingmüller was a co-founder of the Society for Arabic and Islamic Law (GAIR); At its inaugural meeting on October 24th, he was elected first chairman, after which he was chairman of the GAIR board of trustees four years later. In mid-1999 he was a member of the board of directors of the German Orient Institute and the board of the German-Hungarian Lawyers Association.

Web links

Society for Arab and Islamic Law eV

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Obituary Rector and Senate of the University of Cologne, August 2006 ( PDF )
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Hilmar Krüger: Obituary for Ernst Klingmüller . Institute for Insurance Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cologne ( online ( memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )).
↑ Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 37.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 500.
↑ Cf. Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, pp. 356, 392, 393, 397, 399.
^ Ernst Klingmüller: Egypt . In: Jahrbuch der Weltpolitik 1944, p. 21 [614], quoted by Ekkehard Ellinger: Deutsche Orientalistik zur Zeit des Nationalozialismus 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 356.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Stations in the life of Professor Dr. Ernst Klingmüller. On the 85th birthday of Professor Dr. Ernst Klingmüller . Institute for Insurance Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cologne 1999 ( online ( memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )).
^ Stations in the life of Professor Dr. Ernst Klingmüller. On the 85th birthday of Professor Dr. Ernst Klingmüller . Institute for Insurance Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cologne ( online ( memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )) and obituary Rector and Senate of the University of Cologne, August 2006 ( PDF ); from Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 500, presumably in error, Cologne Higher Regional Court.

personal data
SURNAME	Klingmüller, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German orientalist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 29, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH	May 10, 2006
Place of death	Cologne , Germany

[NRUni-1] Obituary Rector and Senate of the University of Cologne, August 2006 ( PDF )

[NRKrüger-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Hilmar Krüger: Obituary for Ernst Klingmüller . Institute for Insurance Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cologne ( online ( memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )).

[3] Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 37.

[Ellinger500-4] Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 500.

[5] Cf. Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, pp. 356, 392, 393, 397, 399.

[6] Ernst Klingmüller: Egypt . In: Jahrbuch der Weltpolitik 1944, p. 21 [614], quoted by Ekkehard Ellinger: Deutsche Orientalistik zur Zeit des Nationalozialismus 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 356.

[Stationen-7] Stations in the life of Professor Dr. Ernst Klingmüller. On the 85th birthday of Professor Dr. Ernst Klingmüller . Institute for Insurance Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cologne 1999 ( online ( memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )).

[8] Stations in the life of Professor Dr. Ernst Klingmüller. On the 85th birthday of Professor Dr. Ernst Klingmüller . Institute for Insurance Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cologne ( online ( memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )) and obituary Rector and Senate of the University of Cologne, August 2006 ( PDF ); from Ekkehard Ellinger: German Oriental Studies at the Time of National Socialism 1933–1945 . Deux-Mondes-Verlag, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2006, p. 500, presumably in error, Cologne Higher Regional Court.