Günther Beitzke

Günther Heinrich Peter Georg Beitzke (born April 26, 1909 in Freiburg i. Br. , † June 16, 2004 in Bonn ) was a German law scholar and university professor .

Career

Beitzke, son of the pathologist Hermann Beitzke (1875–1953), studied law in Berlin , Munich and Kiel . In 1933 he was one of Walther Schücking supervised dissertation on the Status of the Bank for International Settlements doctorate . The habilitation followed in 1937 in Gießen with a thesis on legal persons in international private law , which was supervised by Rolf Dietz .

In 1939, Beitzke was appointed associate professor at the University of Jena . However, he lost this position again in 1941 when he refused to leave the church. This was accompanied by the loss of exemption from military service, so that Beitzke took part in World War II from 1941 to 1945. After returning from captivity, Beitzke resumed teaching at the University of Göttingen . In 1959 he accepted a position at the University of Bonn .

In addition to international private law, the focus of his academic work was family law . Here he was instrumental in the family law reform and the introduction of the disruption principle .

Beitzke is considered to be the founder of the so-called combination theory in international company law . According to this doctrine, for an effective relocation of the registered office of a company, the material law of both the country of departure and the country of arrival must permit this relocation.

Honors

• 1983: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• A portrait of lawyers: publishing house and authors in 4 decades. Festschrift for the 225th anniversary of the CH Beck publishing house . Munich: Beck, 1988. ISBN 3-406-33196-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Günther Beitzke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Memorial website Günther Beitzke