Friedrich Karl Neubecker

Friedrich Karl Neubecker (born June 26, 1872 in Rodenbach , † December 31, 1923 in Heidelberg ) was a German legal scholar and professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He was the first full professor of comparative law at a German university.

life and work

Neubecker began studying law at the University of Munich in the winter semester of 1890/91 , but soon after switched to the University of Berlin , where he passed the Prussian trainee exam in 1895. Already during his doctorate, which he completed in July 1897 with Heinrich Dernburg with the text Right of Succession and Foreign Citizenship , he showed his inclinations for comparative law. Promoted by encouragement from Josef Kohler and his talent for languages, Neubecker continued his studies in comparative law. His habilitation at Dernburg in Berlin took place in 1901 with a general civil law script. As a result, Neubecker acquired the venia legendi for the subjects civil law and Roman law and subsequently worked as a private lecturer in Berlin. In 1909 he took up an extraordinary professorship.

During the First World War , Neubecker initially worked as an education officer in a Potsdam cadet institute, later in the press office. In 1916 he became a "full honorary professor" in Berlin. In 1918 he switched to the newly established full professorship for comparative law and international private law at the University of Heidelberg . Together with Karl Heinsheimer , he was co-director of the seminar for legal studies and comparative law studies. At the same time he was appointed Privy Councilor by the Grand Duke of Baden. In October 1923, Neubecker became dean of the Heidelberg legal seminar, but had to resign from this position in November because of a heart condition that he succumbed to a few weeks later. Neubecker was married to Reneé von Meyenburg, with whom he had two children, including the heraldist Ottfried Neubecker .

Neubecker read in Heidelberg about every area of ​​civil law and civil procedural law. However, he owes his fame largely to his comparative law work, where he had mainly focused on civil law. He was best known through a comparison of marriage law in the international area and the publication of a translation and explanation of Tore Almén's three-volume commentary on Swedish sales law.

Fonts (selection)

• Succession to the throne and foreign citizenship Hilpert, Berlin 1897 (dissertation).
• Associations without legal capacity Deichert, Leipzig 1908 (habilitation thesis)
• Tuberculosis according to its legal relationships in a comparative legal representation Deichert, Leipzig 1908
• Nature of the dowry promise Deichert, Leipzig 1909
• The dowry in a comparative legal representation Deichert, Leipzig 1909
• Coercion and emergency in a comparative legal representation Deichert, Leipzig 1910
• The marriage and inheritance contract in international dealings: A comparative study in the area of ​​German and foreign material and international private law Deichert, Leipzig 1914
• Russian and Oriental marriage law Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1921
• Finland's marriage law reform: The Finnish draft of a law on the legal relationships of the spouses with reference to the Scandinavian drafts Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1921

literature

• Klaus-Peter Schroeder : "A university for and by lawyers" - The Heidelberg Law Faculty in the 19th and 20th centuries . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-12053-6 , p. 417-421 .
• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . Springer, Berlin a. a. 1986, ISBN 978-3-642-70761-2 , pp. 190 f .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ quoted from Schroeder, p. 418.
2. ↑ according to Schroeder, p. 419, in addition to German, Neubecker also mastered Sanskrit, Arabic, Russian, Swedish, English, Icelandic, French, Italian, Serbian, Danish, Finnish, Romanian, Portuguese and Turkish.