Friedrich Korkisch

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Friedrich Rudolf Hubert Korkisch (born July 6, 1908 in Moravská Třebová , † April 22, 1985 in Munich ) was a German lawyer . From 1934 he worked as a consultant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and, from 1937, at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Berlin . In 1949 he was reinstated at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law , of which he became a Scientific Member in 1956. From 1956 he also taught at the University of Hamburg , from 1962 as a professor .

Life

The son of a factory owner passed the Matura at the State Real High School in Mährisch-Trübau in 1927 and began studying law and political science at the German University in Prague . In the meantime he studied for three semesters at the University of Kiel , where in 1931 he was a diploma as economist acquired. In 1934 he received his doctorate with Robert Neuner in Prague .

Korkisch initially joined a German law firm in Prague as a trainee. In 1934 he became a consultant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Berlin . Here he dealt with the private legal systems of the states of Eastern Central and Southeastern Europe including Austria . In 1937 he also became a consultant for ethnic groups and minority law at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Berlin. Korkisch was a member of the NSDAP , but probably did not perform any functions within the party.

After the end of the war , Korkisch and his family moved to the vicinity of Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In 1949 he succeeded in being reinstated at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Tübingen . There he acted as a clerk for Austria, Czechoslovakia and the Nordic countries and also headed the institute library until 1953. In 1956 he was appointed Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute.

In March 1956 , Korkisch completed his habilitation in Tübingen for comparative law , international private law and the history of modern private law. He moved to Hamburg with the institute . From 1956 to 1963 he coordinated the institute's reports. From 1962 until his retirement in 1976 or until 1985 he also taught as a professor at the University of Hamburg .

Fonts (selection)

  • Private law in the former Polish territory. On behalf of the institute. De Gruyter & Co, Berlin 1939.
  • The German influence on Polish legislation in 1919-1939. In: The castle: Vierteljahresschr. d. Institute for German Ostarbeit in Krakow. 1 (1940) 1940, pp. 28-42.
  • The new regulation of citizenship in the areas of the former Czechoslovakia. In: Journal for Foreign Public Law and International Law: ZaöRV. 10 (1940) 1940, pp. 168-243.
  • The position of the Germans under private law in the General Government. In: Yearbook // Institute for German Ostarbeit, Cracow. 1941, pp. 89-115.
  • On the question of the continued validity of the Munich Agreement. In: Journal for Foreign Public Law and International Law: ZaöRV. 12 (1944) 1944, pp. 83-105. ( PDF )
  • The constitutional development in Czechoslovakia up to the constitution of May 9, 1948. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1948.
  • The new international private law of Czechoslovakia. In: Journal for Foreign and International Private Law. 17, No. 3 1952, pp. 410-450.
  • The Swedish Law on Public Companies of September 14, 1944 . Frankfurt am Main 1955, OCLC 611356152 .
  • The current status of legal research on ethnic groups. In: Europa ethnica: magazine for minority issues: with official notices d. Federal Union of European Nationalities. 18, No. 3 1961.
  • The Czechoslovakian continuity theory. Robert Lerche Publishing House, Munich 1963.
  • International private law. 10th edition. Schweitzer, Berlin 1970.
  • Introduction to the private law of the Nordic countries. 1st edition. Knowledge Buchges, Darmstadt 1977, ISBN 3-534-04807-5 .
  • Questions of East-Central European Law. Erdmann, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-7711-0968-X .
  • New trends in private international law in Eastern Europe. In: Yearbook for Eastern Law: JOR. 21, No. 1/2 1980, pp. 9-46.

literature

  • H. Neuhaus: Friedrich Korkisch 70 years . In: Rabel's Journal for Foreign and International Private Law 42 (1978), pp. 209–210.
  • Friedrich Korkisch, international lawyer . In: Mitteilungen des Sudetendeutschen Archiv 98–100 (1990), p. 35.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Herfrid Kier : Herbert Kier (1900–1973). A German-Austrian international lawyer . In: Jahrbuch der Juristische Zeitgeschichte 16, H. 1 (2015), pp. 269–326, here p. 312.