Georg Kuhn (lawyer)

Georg Kuhn (born April 17, 1907 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; † February 2, 1982 ) was a German lawyer with a doctorate and most recently worked as chairman of the senate as a judge at the Federal Court of Justice .

Career

Georg Kuhn's father was a businessman. He was baptized Protestant. Georg attended secondary school, which he graduated from high school in spring 1925. Kuhn studied law at the University of Breslau , the University of Marburg and the University of Munich . On June 26, 1929, Kuhn passed the legal traineeship in Breslau. He started his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court in Breslau . In 1930 he received his doctorate from the University of Wroclaw. On February 15, 1933, Georg Kuhn passed the assessor exam in Berlin. He took the exam in spite of a kidney infection because, as a “ Jewish half-race ”, he feared being disadvantaged by the Nazis' coming to power . For the same reason, he did not seek employment in the civil service, but applied for a license to practice law. Georg Kuhn worked as a lawyer between 1933 and when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1944. On the side he entertained until 1941 and legal revision.

After the end of the war he and his family were housed in Olbersdorf in Upper Silesia. However, the family was evicted and lost all belongings. He went to Oldenburg in Lower Saxony with his wife and children . After approval by the British occupation administration , he became a judge at the Oldenburg Higher Regional Court . His memberships in the National Socialist associations German Labor Front , National Socialist People's Welfare , Reich Colonial Association and Reich Air Protection Association were not counted negatively. At the suggestion of the President of the Higher Regional Court, Georg Kuhn became a Supreme Court Justice for the British Zone on December 17, 1947 . After the Supreme Court was closed, his future career was initially uncertain. On June 25, 1951, however, Georg Kuhn was appointed federal judge at the Federal Court of Justice. Since April 1, 1968 he was chairman of the Second Civil Senate . He held this position until he retired on May 31, 1972.

Publications

• Bankruptcy rules, established by Franz Mentzel , continued from 1955 by Kuhn, later by Wilhelm Uhlenbruck
• The case law of the BGH on insolvency law, Wertpapier-Mitteilungen Part IV (WM) 1955, special issue
• Liability problems at the GmbH and Co, in: Roderich Glanzmann (ed.): Honorary gift for Bruno Heusinger , Munich 1968: CH Beck, pp. 203-216
• About the becoming GmbH and Co KG, in: Robert Fischer, Ernst Gessler (ed.): Structures and developments in commercial, corporate and economic law, Festschrift for Wolfgang Hefermehl , Munich 1976: CH Beck, pp. 159–170, ISBN 3 -406-06559-7
• Are the GmbH partners personally liable for corporate debts ?, in: Marcus Lutter, Walter Stimpel, Herbert Wiedemann (eds.): Festschrift for Robert Fischer , Berlin 1979: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 351–364
• The case law of the BGH on GmbH, WM 1972, 1142, 1976, 754–768, 1978, 598–611
• The case law of the BGH on the general partnership, WM 1973, 1186, 1977, 126–137
• The case law of the BGH on the limited partnership, WM 1978, 186 ff.
• The case law of the BGH on insolvency law, WM 1971, 1038, 1976, 230–243, 1979, 742–756

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Martin Grieß: In the name of law. The Supreme Court for the British Zone as the highest civil court between tradition and reorganization . In: Series of contributions to the legal history of the 20th century . tape 86 . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-16-153980-0 , p. 136-138 ( google.de ).
2. ^ Cabinet minutes online "10. Personalalien" (2.47.8 :). In: bundesarchiv.de. June 20, 1951, accessed December 16, 2018 . 
3. ^ Cabinet minutes online "1. Personalalien" (2.11.1 :). In: bundesarchiv.de. March 27, 1968. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .