George Löning
George Anton Löning (born March 7, 1900 in Bremen , † February 15, 1946 ( declaration of death ) in Kuibyshev , Soviet Union ) was a German legal scholar.
biography
Löning was the son of a public prosecutor. He graduated from the old grammar school in Bremen and after graduating from high school was still a soldier in the First World War . From 1919 to 1923 he studied at the Philipps University of Marburg , the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Georg August University of Göttingen . In 1919 he became a member of the Corps Hasso-Nassovia and the Corps Suevia Freiburg . Löning was u. a. Student of Justus W. Hedemann . He was awarded a Dr. iur. doctorate and worked as a lawyer from 1928 to 1930. Habilitated private lecturer in Jena since 1929 , he received a teaching position at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in 1930 . His specialty was legal history , especially Bremen and the Hanseatic League . In 1934 he became an associate professor and in 1938 a full professor of legal history at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald . In 1941 he was appointed to the Westphalian Wilhelms University ; he taught legal and Hanseatic history. In 1944/1945 he was an interpreter at the Wehrmacht High Command during World War II . In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , in which he died.
Fonts
- Alfred Kühtmann as a legal historian. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch . Vol. 34, 1933, pp. 288-311 .
- The coin rent of the Bremen cathedral chapter in the Middle Ages. A contribution to the older Bremen coinage law and coinage. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch. Vol. 35, 1935, pp. 99-154 .
- The right to mint coins in the Archdiocese of Bremen (= sources and studies on the constitutional history of the German Empire in the Middle Ages and modern times. 7, 3, ISSN 0863-0836 ). Böhlau, Weimar 1937.
literature
- Sebastian Felz: In the spirit of truth? Between science and politics. In: Hans-Ulrich Thamer , Daniel Droste, Sabine Happ (eds.): The University of Münster in National Socialism. Continuities and breaks between 1920 and 1960 (= publications of the University Archives Münster. 5, 1). Volume 1. Aschendorff, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-15884-5 , Vol. 1, pp. 347-412.
- Walther Richter: Löning, George. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 49 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löning, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Löning, George Anton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1945 |
| Place of death | Kuibyshev |