Ernst Zitelmann

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Ernst Zitelmann around 1920

Konrad Ernst Zitelmann (born August 7, 1852 in Stettin ; † November 28, 1923 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and writer .

Life

Ernst Zitelmann, son of the secret government councilor Otto Konrad Zitelmann , attended the Marienstiftsgymnasium in Stettin. He then studied law in Leipzig , Heidelberg and Bonn . In the winter of 1871/72 he became a member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli (today organized as part of the German Choral Society ). He received his doctorate in 1873 on "Concept and nature of the legal person" in Leipzig. He broke off his legal clerkship in Stettin in 1876 to do his habilitation at the University of Göttingen .

He became known through the essays on "The legal declaration of intent" (1878) and "Error and legal transaction" (1879). In 1879 Zitelmann was appointed to the chair for Roman and civil law at the University of Rostock . In 1881 he went to the University of Halle and, after his appointment on December 22, 1883, returned to Bonn as a full professor specializing in Roman law , where he finally taught until his retirement in 1921. From 1922 he was visiting professor at the University of Munich . He was rector of the University of Bonn twice. The dramatist Hans Fritz von Zwehl is one of Ernst Zitelmann's doctoral students .

Zitelmann was one of the most important jurists of modern law. He worked on civil law, family, inheritance, tax and business law. He is important today because of his work on the dogmatics of civil law. Zitelmann also examined the role of value judgments in jurisprudence ("Gaps in Law", 1903; "The Art of Legislation", 1904; "Judicial Binding and Freedom", 1905). Zitelmann presented proposals for a reform of the legal education ("The New Design of Legal Studies", 1921): A two-year basic course, which should be followed by practical training and an in-depth study of the envisaged career.

Zitelmann in front of his villa (around 1893)

Zitelmann was active as a writer, as was his sister Katharina Zitelmann . He died in 1923 after an operation.

Family / Villa Zitelmann

Zitelmann married Elisabeth von Conta (* 1852 † 1934), from which three daughters emerged from 1881 to 1884, and two other daughters died in childhood. After he began teaching at the University of Bonn in 1884, he moved into the former villa of the late university professor and Zitelmann's former teacher Karl Sell (1810–1879) in the fall of that year . On this he had met in 1875 in the classicist - pictureque villa on the banks of the Rhine and - impressed by the scenic location - had expressed his wish to live there as a professor. Initially, Zitelmann rented the villa from Sells heirs, and in 1891 at the latest it passed into his ownership - in that year he had an extension built according to plans by the Bonn architect Otto Penner . In 1912 Zitelmann bought another villa closer to the banks of the Rhine. He was therefore able to sell the former Villa Sell in July 1918; In 1953/54 it was demolished for the post office building .

Honors

Zitelmann received the title of a secret judicial council in 1899 . The University of Chernivtsi awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1899 .

A street in Bonn-Gronau has been named after Zitelmann since 1929.

Works

Legal writings

  • Concept and essence of the legal person. 1873.
  • The legal declaration of intent. 1878.
  • Error and legal transaction. 1879.
  • The possibility of world law. 1888.
  • Fault against yourself. 1900.
  • The law of the Civil Code. 1900. ( digitized version ).
  • International private law. 1897-1912.

Nice literature

  • Poems. 1881.
  • Memento vivere. 1894.
  • Capri. Poems. 1901.
  • Etchings and snapshots. 1904.
  • Aphorisms. 1908.
  • Dance of Death and Dance of Life. 1908.
  • Life memories. Bonn 1924. ( urn : nbn: de: hbz: 5: 1-25837 )

literature

  • Concise dictionary on German legal history , p. 1730 f.
  • Autobiography, in: Hans Planitz: The jurisprudence of the present in self-portrayals. Leipzig 1924, pp. 177-214. (with bibliography)
  • Fritz Raeck : Pomeranian literature. Samples and dates. Pomeranian Central Association, Hamburg 1969, p. 365.
  • Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 1, pp. 169–171 and Volume 2, catalog (1), pp. 154–158. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
  • Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 497-499.

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Zitelmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete directory of the Paulines from summer 1822 to summer 1938, Leipzig 1938, page 54
  2. ^ Zitelmannstrasse in the Bonn street cadastre
personal data
SURNAME Zitelmann, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zitelmann, Konrad Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1923
Place of death Bonn