Ernst Landsberg

Ernst Landsberg (born October 12, 1860 in Stolberg (Rhineland) , † September 29, 1927 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and legal historian .

Life

Ernst Landsberg was the son of Elias Landsberg, general manager (1869–88) of the Stolberger Hütte. His uncle Ludwig Bamberger is one of the founders of Deutsche Bank AG . Landsberg completed his law degree before the age of twenty. After that he was assigned to the Imperial District Court of Colmar as a trainee lawyer, at the same time he did his military service as a one-year volunteer . After his release as a private on September 30, 1881 (normally you were released as a one-year-old with the rank of non-commissioned officer), he came to the Royal District Court of Bonn. During this time he prepared his habilitation and also published a work on Johannes Urbach from the estate of the lawyer Theodor Muther . With the trial lecture on March 6, 1883, the habilitation was completed. He was the first Jew to do his habilitation in law in Bonn. He was then a private lecturer in constitutional law . From 1887 Ernst Landsberg was an associate professor (initially unpaid), from 1899 a full professor at the University of Bonn , dean of the Faculty of Law several times and its rector in 1914/15. He finished the history of German law begun by Roderich von Stintzing (1825-1883), his teacher , which was published from 1880 to 1910 by Oldenbourg Verlag in Munich.

Above and beyond his area of ​​expertise, French culture - he was a skilful master of the language - found his attention, all in harmony with a pronounced German patriotism . As a National Liberal, Landsberg was a member of the Bonn City Council from 1911 to 1918. In the Weimar Republic Landsberg belonged to the German Democratic Party , which affirmed the newly emerged democracy.

In 1896, Ernst Landsberg and Anna Silverberg (1878–1938), daughter of Adolf Silverberg (1845–1903) and sister of the industrialist Paul Silverberg (1876–1959), married. Erich Landsberg (died as a volunteer in World War I ) and the philosopher Paul Ludwig Landsberg (1901–1944), who had to go into exile in 1933 because of his Jewish descent, came from the marriage . Anna Landsberg broke up under the terror of National Socialist anti-Semitism - the authorities refused to allow her to leave the country - and committed suicide in 1938.

Foundation, endowment

The Ernst and Anna Landsberg Memorial Foundation was founded by Paul Silverberg in 1951 in Chur / Switzerland. The foundation wants to preserve the memory of his sister and brother-in-law by supporting students from the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Bonn to study at a Swiss university.

Library

Landsberg's library came to the University Library of Harvard University in 1932 .

Publications

• About the origin of the rule "Quicquid non agnoscit Glossa, nec agnoscit Forum". Adolf Marcus, Bonn 1879, OCLC 23118002 (Dissertation Uni Bonn 1879, 97 pages).
• The ford of the bad faith owner. Critical study. Cohen, Bonn 1888; Reprint: Scientia, Aalen 1970, ISBN 3-511007-13-5 .
• History of German law (= history of science in Germany. Volume 18, ZDB -ID 1016690-7 ). 3 (in 4 parts) volumes. Oldenbourg, Munich 1880-1910; Reprint: Scientia, Aalen 1978, ISBN 3-511-01360-7 .
• On the biography of Christian Thomasius ... ( Festschrift for the second secular celebration of the Friedrichs University in Halle ). Cohen / Universitäts-Buchdruckerei C. Georgi, Bonn 1894 C. Georgi, Bonn 1894, OCLC 494025680 , (Habilitation University of Bonn 1894, 36 pages).
• The law of the civil code of August 18, 1896. A dogmatic textbook. 2 volumes. Guttentag, Berlin 1904; Reprint: (= 100 years of the German Civil Code. Civil Law. Volume 24). Keip, Goldbach 2002, ISBN 3-8051-0988-1 .
• The reports of the Rhenish Immediate Justice Commission and the struggle for the Rhenish legal and judicial system 1814–1819 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History. Volume 31). Hanstein, Bonn 1914, reprint. Droste, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-77007-612-5 .

literature

• Gerhard Dilcher :  Landsberg, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 511 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Memorandum for Prof. Dr. Ernst Landsberg (1860–1927), Mrs. Anna Landsberg b. Silverberg (1878–1938), Dr. Paul Ludwig Landsberg (1901-1944). Law and Political Science Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn 1953.
• Boris Gehlen: Paul Silverberg. (1876-1959). An entrepreneur. (= Quarterly for social and economic history. Supplements. No. 194). Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-09090-2 , pp. 47-49, 518-519 (dissertation University of Bonn 2005/2006, 605 pages).
• Josef Niesen : Bonn Personal Lexicon. 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-416-03180-6 .
• Volker Siebels: Ernst Landsberg (1860-1927). A Jewish Scholar in the Empire (= Contributions to the Legal History of the 20th Century , Volume 68). Mohr Siebeck , Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150768-7 (Dissertation University of Cologne 2011, 232 pages, Google Books , excerpts).

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Landsberg  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Ernst Landsberg in the catalog of the German National Library