Georg Eisser

Georg Eißer (born July 11, 1898 Saargemünd , † June 4, 1964 in Tübingen ) was a German lawyer and professor of law at the University of Tübingen .

Live and act

Georg Eißer studied law at the universities of Frankfurt, Freiburg and Gießen. In 1922 he was awarded the title of Dr. iur. PhD. In 1921 he became a trainee lawyer in Gießen , and in 1924 a court assessor in Darmstadt . In 1926 he completed his habilitation in Giessen, where he became a private lecturer . His collaboration with the local Assyriologist Julius Lewy , which led to the publication of Die Altassyrischen Rechtsurkunden vom Kültepe , began during his time in Giessen .

In 1928 he became an associate professor at the University of Tübingen, and in 1928 he was appointed professor there for civil and Roman law and for commercial law ; In 1939 he was appointed full professor. During the National Socialist era he represented a . a. the view that Adolf Hitler as a “Führer” and his employees and confidants are legislators and only this “Führer” determines the changes and the enactment of laws. In his opinion, the Nazi state is such a constitutional state that would implement the so-called race idea. In May 1946 he was first dismissed as a professor, but reinstated in his office in 1949. From 1950 to 1960 he worked part-time at the Compensation Court, in 1955/56 he held the office of Rector of the University of Tübingen.

His portrait, painted by Ludwig Koch-Hanau in 1957, hangs in the Tübingen professors' gallery .

Publications

The assumption of risk in a sales contract in a comparative legal representation , Julius Springer, Berlin, 1927 (= habilitation thesis)
with Julius Lewy: The ancient Assyrian legal documents from Kültepe I – IV (= communications from the Middle East-Egyptian Society 33 and 35, 3), Hinrichs, Leipzig, 1930–1935.
Race and family. The implementation of the racial idea in civil law , Mohr, Tübingen, 1935.
Speeches at the ceremonial handover of the rectorate at the beginning of the summer semester on May 3, 1956 , Mohr, Tübingen, 1956.

Individual evidence

↑ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich , keyword: Eisser, Georg.

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personal data
SURNAME	Eisser, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eisser, Georg Philipp Karl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, professor at the University of Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH	July 11, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sarreguemines
DATE OF DEATH	4th June 1964
Place of death	Tübingen

[1] Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich , keyword: Eisser, Georg.