Ernst Steindorff (lawyer)

Ernst Steindorff (born March 13, 1920 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 26, 2018 ) is a German legal scholar and former professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

After serving in the war and being a prisoner of war, Steindorff studied law at the University of Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen from 1946 , where he became a member of the Lunaburgia Association . In 1949 he finished his studies with the first state examination in law and then worked at the Federal Chancellery . There he acted as secretary for the German Schuman Plan delegation. In 1952 Steindorff received his doctorate from Walter Hallstein in Frankfurt. iur. and passed his second state examination the following year. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Frankfurt. In 1957 he completed his habilitation with Heinrich Kronstein and immediately took on a teaching position at the University of Frankfurt. From 1959 to 1962 Steindorff was a full professor at the University of Tübingen before he was a visiting professor at Georgetown University and the University of Chicago Law School for two years . In 1964 he returned to Germany and became a full professor at the University of Munich . Until his retirement in 1985 he held the chair for civil law, commercial, economic, labor and international private law.

Works and works (selection)

Steindorff's work is broad, but mainly focuses on European law and commercial law. He is considered to be one of the fathers of European law and was instrumental in the academic review of the then young law of European integration.

• The action for annulment in the law of the European Coal and Steel Community: A comparative contribution to the administrative judicial control of the High Authority . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1952 (dissertation).
• Material norms in international private law . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1957 (habilitation thesis).
• Appropriateness in competition law . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1959.
• Legal Protection and Procedure in Law of the European Communities: Selected Problems . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1964.
• The principle of equality in the commercial law of the common market . De Gruyter, Berlin 1965.
• Are trade cooperatives cartels? Verlagsgesellschaft Recht u. Wirtschaft, Heidelberg 1978, ISBN 978-3-8005-6909-0 .
• Liberal professions, stepchildren of the legal system? Bund, Cologne 1980, ISBN 978-3-7663-0762-0 .
• Competitive unity and antitrust presumptions . Verlagsgesellschaft Recht u. Wirtschaft, Heidelberg 1982, ISBN 978-3-8005-6953-3 .
• Protection of privacy in civil law . CF Müller, Heidelberg 1983, ISBN 978-3-8114-5983-0 .
• Introduction to the commercial law of the Federal Republic of Germany . 2nd Edition. WBG, Darmstadt 1985, ISBN 978-3-534-07385-6 .
• Redefinition of executives? Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf 1987.
• Limits of EC competences . Verlagsgesellschaft Recht u. Wirtschaft, Heidelberg 1990, ISBN 978-3-8005-1050-4 .
• EC Treaty and private law . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 978-3-7890-4363-5 .

literature

• Jürgen F. Baur , Klaus Hopt , Peter Mailänder (eds.): Festschrift for Ernst Steindorff on his 70th birthday on March 13, 1990 . De Gruyter, Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3-11-011985-5 .

Web links

• Article about Steindorff at BR

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice from the Law Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 262, November 10, 2018, p. 9.
2. ^ Association of Old Lüneburgers and Saxony: Directory of addresses , 1969, p. 10