Franz Laufke

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Franz Laufke (born June 20, 1901 in Oberleutensdorf , Brüx district ; † October 15, 1984 in Würzburg ) was a German lawyer and university professor.

Life

Laufke attended the Oberleutensdorf elementary school from 1907 and switched to the Brüx high school in 1912 , where he passed his Matura in 1920 . He then studied law at the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague , and in the meantime at the University of Munich . His law studies he graduated in 1926 with honors and received his doctorate in mid-June 1927 Dr. jur. This was followed by additional studies at the Philosophical Faculty of Karl Ferdinand University and employment as a research assistant. In Prague he completed his habilitation in 1930 with a thesis on commercial law and bill of exchange law and was then initially a private lecturer, from October 1934 as successor to Hans Großmann-Doerth associate professor and from 1939 full professor of civil law at the German university in Prague. Laufke was a member of the NSDAP .

Together with Wilhelm Weizsäcker , he headed the Institute for German Law in East Central Europe of the Reinhard Heydrich Foundation . During the Second World War Laufke was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

After his release from captivity, he worked as a private scholar and night watchman in Kästorf near Gifhorn . At the beginning of November 1948 he temporarily held a chair in Kiel and in October 1949 switched to the University of Würzburg as a private lecturer, where shortly afterwards he was given a chair in commercial, civil and civil procedure law.

literature

  • Who is who? , XV, 1967, p. 1113
  • Hans Forkel: Franz Laufke . In: Journal for Copyright and Media Law, Film and Law . tape 29 , no. 1 , 1985, pp. 41 . [Obituary]
  • F. Laufke: IUS et Commercium. Studies in commercial and business law. Festschrift for Franz Laufke on his 70th birthday on June 20, 1971.
  • Andreas Wiedemann: The Reinhard Heydrich Foundation as an example of National Socialist science policy in the Protectorate , in: Christiane Brenner , K. Erik Franzen, Peter Haslinger, Robert Luft (eds.): Historiography of the Bohemian countries in the 20th century . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006, p. 162.
  • Andreas Wiedemann: The Reinhard Heydrich Foundation in Prague (1942-1945) Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, 2000 (PDF file; 943 kB), p. 49.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sudetendeutsche Akademie der Wissenschaft und Künste on http://www.sudetendeutsche-akademie.eu/
  2. ↑ see literature Andreas Wiedemann: The Reinhard Heydrich Foundation as an example of National Socialist science policy in the Protectorate
  3. ↑ see literature Andreas Wiedemann: The Reinhard Heydrich Foundation in Prague (1942–1945)
personal data
SURNAME Laufke, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberleutensdorf
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1984
Place of death Wurzburg