Felix Holldack

Felix Holldack (born October 10, 1880 in Königsberg , † May 29, 1944 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German law scholar and university professor .

Life

Holldack came from a very wealthy merchant and councilor family and was related to Hannah Arendt . His brother was the agricultural technology pioneer and university professor Hans Holldack . He graduated from high school in Königsberg in 1899 . He then studied law and philosophy at the universities of Munich , Heidelberg , Berlin and Königsberg , which he completed in 1902 with the First State Examination in his hometown at the Königsberg Higher Regional Court . In the same year he was at the University of Leipzig with the dissertation The Canonical-Legal Influences in Marriage Law of the Civil Code. to the Dr. jur. PhD . He went to the University of Heidelberg, where in 1906 his doctorate Dr. phil. with the work From the legend and the realm of the Grusinian Queen Tamara. took place.

Holldack went back to Koenigsberg to the university. In 1909 he completed his habilitation there and became a private lecturer in law. However, he went to Leipzig a short time later . There, in 1911 took place its Habilitation . Subsequently, he was a private lecturer in legal philosophy and comparative law at the University of Leipzig. Three years later he took up a position there as a scheduled associate professor for international law , legal philosophy and comparative law.

In 1920 Holldack accepted a call as a full professor of law at the Technical University of Dresden . From 1920 up to and including 1929 he was also an honorary professor of law at the Tharandt Forestry Academy .

Because the Catholic Holldack was considered a half-Jew , he was prematurely retired in 1934 and then a private scholar .

Publications (selection)

• On the ideality of the dualistic principle in punishment. Wroclaw 1911.
• Limits to Knowledge of Foreign Law. Leipzig 1919.
• The new university. Dresden 1930.
• The Lateran Treaties of February 11, 1929 in the stream of Italian history. Vergente mundi vespere. Frankfurt a. M. 1937.

He was also the editor of the series of works on technical law , which was published by Meiner Verlag in Leipzig.

literature

• Felix Holldack , In: Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar , de Gruyter, Berlin 1931, Sp. 1228.
• Christian Tilitzki : The Albertus University in Königsberg - its history from the founding of the empire to the fall of the province of East Prussia (1871–1945). Vol. 1 (1871-1918), Akademie Verlag 2012 ISBN 978-3-05-004312-8 , p. 221.

Web links

• Felix Holldack in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Felix Holldack on the private website holldack.de (source, as of May 5, 2016).
• Portrait of Holldack on deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de