Felix Genzmer (legal scholar)

Felix Genzmer (1955)

Felix Stephan Hermann Genzmer (born March 25, 1878 in Marienburg ; † August 19, 1959 in Tübingen ) was a German legal historian and medievalist.

Life

Felix Genzmer came from a family of lawyers. His father Stephan Genzmer (1849–1917) was Senate President at the Prussian Higher Administrative Court . His younger brother Erich Genzmer (1893-1970) became professor of Roman law and civil law at the University of Hamburg . His son Harald Genzmer became a composer .

After graduating from the Joachimsthal School in Berlin , Genzmer studied law and political science at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Philipps University in Marburg from 1896 to 1898 . He became a member of the Corps Normannia Berlin (1896) and the Corps Hasso-Nassovia (1897). In 1899/1900 he served as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian Army . He was a trainee lawyer at the Supreme Court and passed the assessor examination in 1905 . As such, he gained extensive experience at the Charlottenburg District Court and the Blumenthal district . In 1911 he was at the University of Königsberg with a contribution to the criminal causality doctrine magna cum laude for Dr. iur. PhD . In 1912 he was Regierungsrat in poses and lecturer for administrative law and administration Administration at the Royal Academy to Posen (up to 1914). During the First World War , he last took part as captain of the reserve in the Jäger Battalion Prince Bismarck (Pomeranian) No. 2 of the Landwehr Corps on the Eastern Front . After a brief activity in the Reich Ministry of the Interior , from 1920 he was Ministerialrat and deputy representative of the Free State of Prussia in the Reichsrat .

From 1920 to 1922 he was professor for public law at the University of Rostock .

Marburg

From 1922 to 1934 he was a full professor at the University of Marburg. For the academic year 1928/29 he was elected rector . In the rector's speech he dealt with state and nation . Genzmer sat in the State Court for the German Reich . After the National Socialist German Workers' Party won the Reichstag elections in March 1933 , he became a supporting member of the SS . On November 11, 1933, he was among those who called for the German professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler . At the university he collected signatures for it. After the suspension of membership in the NSDAP , he joined the NSDAP in 1937. In the National Socialist Motor Corps he was senior squad leader.

Tübingen

Since 1934 full professor at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , he worked from 1940 to 1945 as a lecturer for the elderly, especially Nordic philology at the Philosophical Faculty.

Since 1942 he worked with Aktion Ritterbusch in the group Life Powers and Beings of Indo-Europeanism . In 1945 Genzmer retired. The Office of Military Government for Germany (US) appointed him in 1947 to the Legislative Committee for the introduction of the administrative dispute procedure. Until 1953, Genzmer was an emeritus lecturer for Old Norse Philology at the University of Tübingen.

He was in close contact with Albert Einstein throughout his life. This collection of letters is part of the physical collection in the Museum of the University of Tübingen .

Honors

Incomplete list

• Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class
• Dr. phil. hc from the University of Tübingen (1927)
• Elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• Visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin (1950)
• Band award of the Corps Franconia Tübingen (1953)

See also

• List of corps student rectors

Fonts

Public law and criminal law were Genzmer's legal focuses. As a philologist in German and Scandinavian studies , he became famous for translating the Edda into German . It appeared in the Thule collection (vol. 1: hero poetry , vol. 2: god poetry and saying poetry , Jena 1912–1920, numerous new editions). He transmitted the Beowulf , the Waltharilied and the Heliand .

• State and society in prehistoric times. 1938.
• Revenge, wergeld and complaint in old Germanic law. 1939.
• Revenge, wergeld and complaint in old Germanic legal life . In: Robert Wetzel / Hermann Hoffmann (eds.): Scientific Academy Tübingen of the NSD.-Dozentbundes . Volume 1: 1937, 1938, 1939 , Tübingen: Mohr 1940, pp. 280-297.
• Germanic seafaring and sailing. 1944.
• The Germanic clan as a legal structure.
• From translating. In: active word. Volume 9, 1959, p. 65.

literature

• Hugo Kuhn :  Genzmer, Felix Stephan Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 195 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hermann Schneider (Ed.): Memorandum for Felix Genzmer on his 70th birthday. 1948.
• Carsten Wilms: Genzmer, Felix Stephan Hermann. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 550-552.

Web links

• Literature by and about Felix Genzmer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Felix Genzmer in Kalliope
• Entry on Felix Genzmer in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Fritz Mussehl : In memoriam Felix Genzmer. In: Deutsche Corpszeitung , No. 5 (1959), p. 148 f.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 5/274; 99/675; 127/1075.
3. ↑ Dissertation: The concept of working. A contribution to the theory of criminal law causality .
4. ↑ digitized version .
5. ^ Rector's speeches (HKM) .
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd updated edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 178.