Ernst Wolf (lawyer)

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Ernst Wolf (born October 26, 1914 in Meiningen ; † March 28, 2008 in Marburg ) was a German lawyer and professor of civil law at the Philipps University in Marburg. 

Life

Wolf graduated from the 1921-1925 public school before succumbing to the Reform-Realgymnasium moved to Meiningen, where in 1934, he the high school took off. After completing his military service , he studied law in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, which he completed in July 1938 with the first state examination at the Berlin Superior Court .

During his studies, Wolf was arrested by the Gestapo at the age of 21 and taken to the Bad Sulza concentration camp because he had demonstrated against the forced retirement of a professor. He was only released from prison in 1937.

After completing his studies, he went to Frankfurt am Main. Here he received his doctorate in commercial law in 1940 on the subject of the guarantee for current business credit, in particular when the business owner changed at the chair of Professor Ruth, at that time full professor of civil law.

After receiving his doctorate, he was a temporary lecturer at the University of Frankfurt before he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in June 1940 . In the summer of 1943 he was discharged from army service due to a knee injury, after which he continued teaching at the University of Frankfurt.

In May 1946 , Wolf completed his habilitation on the subject of the general clause in compensation law , before moving to the Hessian Ministry of Justice in August 1947 , which he left in 1948. In February 1948 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Frankfurt.

In 1951 Wolf was appointed as a permanent professor at the University of Frankfurt. In 1954 he was able to work as a visiting professor in Chicago for half a year , where he cooperated with Max Rheinstein, through contacts that arose as a result of a collaboration on questions of marriage law .

In 1955 he accepted a call as a full professor at the chair for civil law , labor law and legal philosophy at the University of Marburg, where he stayed until his retirement in 1983. In 1968 he and many other professors at the university were one of the main initiators and signatories of the “ Marburg Manifesto ”, which formed an academic front against the emerging co-determination and “democratization” at universities.

Ernst Wolf was a pioneer in solving numerous legal questions. In the 1950s, he was the first to speak out in favor of an individual view of marriage and the principle of breakdown in divorce. In addition to numerous publications, he wrote textbooks on the general part of the BGB as well as on the law of obligations and property law . With his remarks on the legal capacity of humans , Wolf became well known in the scientific community.

From July 1955 to 1956 he was a member of the personnel appraisal committee for the new Bundeswehr .

Wolf was married and had three children. His two sons ( Joachim Wolf and Gerhard Wolf ) are professors of law at different universities. His daughter Daniela Lerchl (née Wolf) is a scientist.

Publications

  • General part of civil law , ISBN 3452190412
  • Ernst Wolf, Hans Naujoks: Beginning and end of the legal capacity of humans . Klostermann Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1955, 240 pp.
  • Is there a Marxist science? Critique of the Foundations of Dialectical Materialism , Munich 1980
  • Legal Philosophy - A Wrong Path! ISBN 3000098577

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae and work ( Memento from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Wording and list of signatures of the manifesto against the politicization of universities ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik , born in 1968; Issue 8
  4. ^ Marburg Manifesto , in: Der Spiegel of July 22, 1968
  5. ↑ See divorce and divorce law , Wolf / Lüke / Hax, (1959)
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor, professor of civil law at the Philipps University in Marburg
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiningen
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2008
Place of death Marburg