Franz Haymann

Franz Karl Abraham Samuel Haymann (born August 25, 1874 in Frankfurt am Main , † August 26, 1947 in Oxford ) was a German legal scholar. He was professor of law among others at the University of Rostock and at the University of Cologne .

Live and act

Franz Haymann studied law and philosophy in Lausanne , Strasbourg and Berlin . After his legal clerkship (1896) he worked a. a. in Marburg with philosophical studies, which he completed in 1897 with a doctorate .

From 1905 Haymann worked at the Frankfurt am Main regional court, initially as an assistant judge and from 1910 to 1914 as a judge. He completed his habilitation in 1908 at the Academy for Social and Commercial Science in Frankfurt am Main and taught there and at the university founded in 1914 as a private lecturer and honorary professor.

From 1916 he taught law at the University of Rostock and from 1923 at the University of Cologne. In the following years he represented the subjects of Roman law , German civil law and legal philosophy at the University of Cologne . Haymann was dean of the law faculty as early as 1924/25 .

In 1929, Haymann was one of the first to grapple with the legal arguments in the context of the Ruhreisen dispute, since both employers and employees in their justifications and arguments in court on one of his essays The majority decision, their meaning and their limits (Festgabe für Rudolf Stammler , 1926).

In September 1935, Franz Haymann was given early retirement because of his Jewish descent. He was able to emigrate to England in 1938, where he died in Oxford in 1947.

He was married to Ruth Therese Hensel, the daughter of Kurt Hensel , and the father of the mathematician Walter Hayman .

Publications

The concept of Volonté générale as the foundation of Rousseau's doctrine of the sovereignty of the people , Leipzig (Veit & C.) 1897 (Halle, legal dissertation of October 4, 1897)
Cosmopolitanism and patriotism in the political theory of Rousseau and Fichte , Berlin (Pan-Verlag) 1924

literature

Theo Mayer-Maly : Haymann, Franz Karl Abraham Samuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 153 f. ( Digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Franz Haymann: The majority decision in jurisdiction and arbitration and the arbitration award in the Ruhreisenstreit . Berlin, Leipzig 1929, p. 5.

personal data
SURNAME	Haymann, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Haymann, Franz Karl Abraham Samuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	August 26, 1947
Place of death	Oxford

[1] Cf. Franz Haymann: The majority decision in jurisdiction and arbitration and the arbitration award in the Ruhreisenstreit . Berlin, Leipzig 1929, p. 5.