Erwin Grueber

Erwin Grueber (born August 5, 1846 in Arnsberg , † November 15, 1933 in Kochel ) was a German-British legal scholar from the Sauerland .

Life

Erwin Grueber was born on August 5, 1846 in Arnsberg. His mother was Johanna Bertha, called Berthe, the daughter of the legal historian Johann Suibert Seibertz and Julia Arndts , who was born on September 11, 1819 . His father was the Regensburg master builder and historian Professor Bernhard Grueber .

Erwin Grueber grew up among nine siblings. His brother Albert had inherited his father's drawing talent and became a well-known genre painter . Grueber spent the first years of his life and the early years of high school in his grandparents' house in Arnsberg. Grueber graduated from high school in Prague . As a one-year volunteer, Grueber took part in the 2nd Infantry Regiment in the 1870/71 campaign .

On October 19, 1882, Grueber married Marie Luise Kreszentia Strobl in Munich, the daughter of the princely taxic councilor Joseph Strobl and Rosalin Hauff, who was born on June 15, 1855. Erwin Grueber returned to England after the wedding. On September 10, 1894 his only child, Bertha Marie Emma Franziska Maximiliana Virginia, called Mimi, was born to him.

After his retirement , Grueber retired to his country house in Kochel. He died there on November 15, 1933 at the age of 87.

Professional background

Erwin Grueber began his legal studies in Berlin . Then he went to Greifswald , later to Munich . Encouraged by his uncle, the pandectist Ludwig von Arndts, his inclination towards Roman law arose.

In the period from February 17, 1871 to May 4, 1871, he completed a preparatory service at the Royal City Court in Munich and from May 15, 1871 to January 4, 1872 at the District Court in Weilheim , then again at the City Court in Munich. From July 5, 1872 to November 1, 1872, Grueber practiced at the city magistrate in Munich and from November 2, 1872 to July 5, 1873 at the royal district office in Munich. Grueber worked as an employee from July 6, 1873 to March 3, 1875 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . On March 14, 1874, he received his doctorate here summa cum laude . A year later , Grueber completed his habilitation in Roman law .

On August 5, 1881, Grueber followed a call to Oxford University to teach Roman law. Grueber lived in Oxford for 12 years and taught here primarily Roman law, then also civil law. Under his supervision, an English translation appeared on the institutions of Emperor Justinian, to which he wrote an introduction, and his book, The Lex Aquilia, 1886, was also published in Oxford.

In 1893 Grueber returned to Munich University, as he had been entrusted with the publication of the legal encyclopedia by Ludwig von Arndts . He then wrote on the same subject in Birkmeyer's encyclopedia . In 1896 he received an extraordinary professorship at the law faculty of the University of Munich. Grueber counted many of his students from the Sauerland. He was a member of the Sauerland Heimatbund . Grueber was also a member of the Society for University Education.

In 1907 Grueber published the book "Introduction to Jurisprudence", which was intended to introduce beginners to the basic concepts and main content of legal discipline in a simple and comprehensible manner. In the same year Erwin Grueber bought a villa in Kochel (Upper Bavaria), it was called the Grueber villa. On May 13, 1911 Grueber was honored with the title of Hofrat.

Grueber's book "Introduction to Law" appeared in several editions. In 1918 he revised this book especially for those who participated in the First World War and who had to interrupt their law studies. Grueber then used these "introductions" as the basis for his lectures. His written presentation offered every "freshman" in the shortest possible time a reintroduction into law studies and, as an overview of the entire legal knowledge, offered at the same time the opportunity to pick up on what had been heard and worked through and to regain contact with the applicable law. How necessary such a simplified, clear presentation was for those involved in the war was shown by the edition of the Introduction to Jurisprudence with Addendum, which was out of print immediately after its publication. Grueber had also included many notes in the appendix or addendum, with the help of which the students achieved the desired elaboration of the main principles of civil law, which was sufficient preparation for the normal lectures of civil law. For those involved in the war, Grueber recommended introducing the trimester for the first two years of peace . This means that the war veteran, once he started, was able to complete his studies in two instead of three years, since the lecture-free period was shorter than the semesters.

In 1916 Grueber gave a lecture at an event of the "Deutsche Wacht" association, at which King Ludwig III . von Bayern was published on the topic: "What can our universities and colleges do for their war participants?" In this lecture, Grueber made clear in 11 guiding principles the importance of trimestration and the further reforms, but also the necessary financial support for war participants . This lecture was published in the book of the same name in 1918. Grueber himself and the publisher waived any share of the proceeds from the book. The net income went to needy war participants.

Grueber was honored with an academic celebration in March 1924 on the occasion of his golden doctoral jubilee. He was thanked for his teaching activities as a private lecturer and professor in the areas of Roman and German civil law and the legal encyclopedia. He was also thanked for his teaching activity in Oxford, where he had represented the Munich University in an honorable way, and especially for his zeal in relation to the reform of legal education. Above all, that he did his best to make it easier for those who took part in the war to transition to studies that had been interrupted by the war.

Fonts

• The Lex Aquilia, Oxford 1886.
• Introduction to jurisprudence, a legal encyclopedia and methodology, at the same time to reintroduce war participants into law studies, in particular the Civil Code, Munich 1907.
• What can our universities and colleges do for their war participants who are inhibited in their studies? With an appendix, the submission of the Munich professors to the German Reichstag, regarding the tripartite division of the academic year, Munich 1918.
• Important Sauerlanders, Professor Ludwig Arndts, Knight of Arnesberg, in: Trutznachtigall, Heimatblatt for the Sauerland Electorate of Cologne, No. 6, 1924.
• The law studies of the war participants, in: Zeitschrift für Rechtspflege in Bayern, Munich 1917, 13th year, 1 ff.

literature

• Holland, Hyac: ADB Vol. 49 . 1904.
• Schauerte, Prof. Dr. Erwin: Grueber, in: Trutznachtigall, No. 6 . 1924.
• Bernhard Ziegler: Grueber, + 1882, October 12, in: Negotiations of the historical association of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg XL of the entire negotiations and XXXII of the new series, necrologist . Stadtamhof 1886.
• Patrick Sensburg : The great lawyers of the Sauerland . 22 biographies of outstanding legal scholars. 1st edition. FW Becker, Arnsberg 2002, ISBN 978-3-930264-45-2 (276 pages).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ StA M-family bow CI. III., V / 333.
2. ^ Ziegler, Bernhard Grueber, + 1882, October 12, in: Negotiations of the historical association of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg XL of the entire negotiations and XXXII of the new series, necrologist; Page 256
3. ↑ ^{a b} UA M, E- II -1529
4. ↑ Nekrolog, Jb.LMU M 1935, p. 9.
5. ^ UA M, E- II - 1529
6. ↑ Schauerte, Prof. Dr. Erwin Grueber, in: Trutznachtigall, No. 6, 1924; Page 80
7. ^ Nekrolog Jb. LMU M 1935, p. 9.
8. ↑ StA M-family bow Erwin Grueber created on 18 February 1911