Falk Zipperer

Falk-Wolfgang Zipperer (born December 24, 1899 in Darmstadt , † 1966 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and librarian .

Life

Falk Zipperer attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . After his participation in the First World War , most recently with the rank of lieutenant , Zipperer began studying law at the Ludwig Maximilians University , with Konrad Beyerle , among others . In 1921 he became active in the Corps Vandalia Graz. He finished his studies in 1928. In 1933 he was appointed to the personal staff of the Reichsführer-SS . In 1935 he became a member of the NSDAP . Through his childhood friend Heinrich Himmler , he was assigned as a pupil to Karl August Eckhardt . With a dissertation on the Haberfeldtreiben at Eugen Wohlhaupter doctorate he in 1937 at the University of Kiel to Dr. iur. In the same year he became Eckhardt's assistant and main collaborator in the reconstruction of the German Law Institute of the Reichsführer-SS at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Habilitated under Eckhard in 1941 , he was appointed lecturer the following year. After the death of the legal historian Karl-Hans Maria Ganahl in 1942, at Himmler's request, Zipperer was appointed to a professorship for German legal history at the University of Innsbruck in June 1944 , although the faculty preferred Otto Stolz . Zipperer, who did military service as SS-Hauptsturmführer , did not take up his professorship. Towards the end of the war, Zipperer became a prisoner of war . As a "Reichsdeutscher" he was dismissed from the Austrian university service. He then worked in the higher service of the Federal Library (Reichstag library) for scientific cataloging.

Publications

• The border tree . Bonn 1939.
• Review of Johannes Haller's The Entry of the Teutons into History. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . 1940.
• Contribution to the Festgabe for Heinrich Himmler , among others Werner Best , Reinhard Höhn , Ed. Wilhelm Stuckart, LC Wittich Verlag, Darmstadt 1941.

literature

• Peter Longerich : Heinrich Himmler: A biography. Siedler Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-88680-859-5 .
• Susanne Lichtmannegger: The Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Innsbruck 1945–1955 . Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-631-34711-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Falk Zipperer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 180 , 115
2. ↑ Dissertation: The Haberfeldtreib, its history and its interpretation.