Fritz Sturm (lawyer)

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Fritz Sturm

Fritz Sturm (born June 13, 1929 in Konstanz ; † March 14, 2015 in Echandens , Switzerland ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Sturm was born as the son of a district judge and a senior government councilor in Konstanz, where he attended the humanistic Heinrich Suso grammar school. After graduating from high school, he studied classical studies and law in Tübingen , Lausanne , Geneva , Bologna and Heidelberg . In 1952 he obtained the Swiss licentiate in Lausanne, in 1954 he passed the legal traineeship in Heidelberg. As a trainee lawyer, he was sworn in as an interpreter. After the second state examination , he received his doctorate in Lausanne in 1957 with an award-winning dissertation on a Cicero position .

He began his university career as a research assistant and lecturer in Heidelberg. In 1964 he completed his habilitation in Roman law , civil law , private international law and comparative law in Munich and in the same year he was appointed associate professor in Lausanne. From 1966 to 1971 he was full professor in Mainz , from 1971 to 1977 in Marburg and from 1977 until his retirement (1999) holder of the chair for German law in Lausanne.

As a visiting professor storm was Berlin , Poitiers , Krakow , Milan , Rome , Ferrara , Urbino , Tokyo and Trent operates.

Storm's main areas of work were international private law in the past and present, family law , inheritance law and nationality law, as well as horizontal and vertical comparative law as well as Roman law of obligations and property law. Since 1974 he was a member of the family law and the law of obligations commission of the German Council for international private law.

Awards

  • 1958: Prix Bippert, Lausanne
  • 1975: Medal from the University of Liège
  • 1979: Honorary doctorate from the University of Liège,
  • 1991: Member of the Academy of Sciences in Milan (Istituto Lombardo)
  • 1993: Member of the Academy of European Private Law Scholars in Pavia
  • 1994: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
  • 1994: Badge of honor in gold of the Federal Association of German Registrars
  • On his retirement in 1999, the two-volume commemorative publication "Mélanges Fritz Sturm", Liège (1999) with 113 articles in five languages ​​was dedicated to Sturm.

Works (selection)

Sturm published over 500 publications.

  • Abalienatio 1957 (dissertation),
  • Legal transaction and unconstitutional law Frankfurt / Main 1962,
  • Roman law from the perspective of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1968, Tübingen, Mohr (Siebeck),
  • Stipulatio Aquiliana - Textual Form and Scope of the Aquilian Compensation Receipt in Classical Roman Law (Habilitation Thesis), Munich 1972 ISBN 978-3-406-00659-3
  • Hans Schlosser , Fritz Sturm, Hermann Weber : The legal history exegesis 1972, 2nd edition Munich 1992 ISBN 3-40634441-0
  • International private law (founded by Leo Raape ) Vol. 1, 6th edition 1977
  • The reception of French civil status law in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Saarbrücken, Europa-Inst., 1989
  • Theodor Mommsen . Thoughts on the life and work of the great German legal historian. (Series of publications by the Legal History Museum, issue 11). Karlsruhe 2006, ISBN 3-922596-66-5
  • Concise dictionary on German legal history (collaboration)
  • with Gudrun Sturm: Introduction to international private law, in the major commentary by Staudinger , revised 2008
  • 200 years of Badisches Landrecht, Karlsruhe: Ges. For Cultural and Historical Documentation, 2011
  • Theodor Mommsen, Karlsruhe: Ges. For Cultural and Historical Documentation, 2006
  • with Gudrun Sturm: The German Citizenship Law, Frankfurt am Main, Verl. für Standesamtwesen, 2001
  • The new international private law of Liechtenstein , Vienna, Ludwig-Boltzmann-Inst. for European law, 1997, ISBN 978-3706700528
  • Integration of foreign norms into German civil status law, Beitzke, Günther, Frankfurt am Main, Verl. Für Standesamtwesen, 1985
  • Legal history exegesis, Schlosser, Hans. - Munich: Beck, 1972

swell

  • Karl Zippelius: in Legal Journal 2004, 615 (Fritz Sturm on his 75th birthday)
  • Gerhard Köbler : Who is who in German law online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary

Web links

  • Fritz Sturm: Germans before the Swiss divorce judge , in a commemorative publication for Günther Beitzke on his 70th birthday on April 26, 1979 p. 767ff. on-line
  • Fritz Sturm: Savigny and the international private law of his time, in: Ius Commune 8 (1980) S. 92ff. online (PDF; 1.8 MB)
  • Fritz Sturm: On the reform of international naming law, in: Proposals and expert reports on the reform of German international personal, family and inheritance law (1981) online
  • Fritz Sturm: Divorce and remarriage of foreigners in Germany, in: Festschrift for Werner Lorenz on his seventieth birthday (1991) p. 597ff. on-line
  • Fritz Sturm: Interlocking of IPR and citizenship law, in: Vestigia iuris: Festschrift for Günther year on his seventieth birthday (1993) p. 497ff. on-line
  • Fritz Sturm: Slavery Fund decides on property acquisition - on Gaius D.41,1,43,2 and Ulpian D. 7,1,25,1, in: Slavery and release in Roman law. Symposium for Hans Josef Wieling (2006) p. 223ff. on-line
  • Sturm, Fritz. Hessian biography. (As of October 24, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
personal data
SURNAME Sturm, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2015
Place of death Echandens , Switzerland