Gerd Brudermüller

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Gerd Brudermüller (born January 15, 1949 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 22, 2019 ) was a German lawyer and legal philosopher . From 2001 to 2013 he was chairman of the German Family Court Assembly .

Life

Gerd Brudermüller was born on January 15, 1949 in Frankfurt am Main, but grew up in Italy for the first 15 years of his life. After graduating from high school, he studied law and philosophy at universities in Mannheim, Heidelberg and Munich. He worked temporarily as a research assistant at the law faculty of the University of Heidelberg and was initially admitted to the bar after the 2nd state examination. In 1979, Brudermüller was accepted into the judicial service of the state of Baden-Württemberg, where he initially worked as a public prosecutor at the Mannheim public prosecutor and as an assessor at the Mannheim regional court . He soon moved to the Mannheim District Court , where he was appointed judge at the District Court on March 21, 1981. Brudermüller worked primarily as a family judge. In 1982 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on tenancy law aspects of cohabiting communities: the legal regulation of subletting as a solution model . After a secondment to the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court in 1988, Brudermüller was seconded to the then Federal Ministry of Justice from 1989 to 1994 . There he was given the department of maintenance law, matrimonial property law and inheritance law until 1992 . As part of this activity, he also took part in the drafting of the Unification Treaty in 1990 . In addition, from 1991 onwards there was a special mandate to participate in the reform of the arbitration system. During his secondment, he was appointed judge at the Higher Regional Court on June 23, 1992. Until 1994 he was the provisional head of the department for maintenance law and pension adjustment. This was followed by many years of work as a judge in a family senate and a civil senate of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court. In 2001, Brudermüller was elected chairman of the German Family Court Conference, which he led until 2013. With effect from March 21, 2005, Gerd Brudermüller was appointed presiding judge at the Higher Regional Court. In the same year he received an honorary professorship from the University of Mannheim , and in 2008 the University of Basel awarded him an honorary doctorate. On his retirement from active judicial service, an extensive academic commemorative publication was dedicated to him, which contains contributions from around 90 specialist authors on all areas of family law ( Götz / Schwenzer / Seelmann / Taupitz (ed.): Family - Law - Ethics, Festschrift for Gerd Brudermüller on his 65th birthday, Munich 2014). Even after his retirement, Brudermüller continued to work as an author of specialist legal literature, and since 1994 he has been the chairman of the Institute for Applied Ethics. V.

Scientific work

Brudermüller began working as an author in 1992 while working for the Federal Ministry of Justice. From the 8th to the 29th edition in 2008 he was co-editor of the tables on family law . There were also books on family law and numerous publications in legal journals. He regularly wrote articles on the development of family law in the Neue Juristische Wochenschrift . In addition, Brudermüller was a member of the advisory board of the scientific association for family law eV Bonn, co-editor of the journal for the entire family law ( FamRZ ) and advisory board of the journal Forum Familienrecht . Brudermüller gained a lot of fame primarily as a co-author of the BGB commentary on Palandt , where he was responsible for an annually updated version of large parts of family law from the 59th edition (2000) to the posthumously published 79th edition (2020). Most recently, he published two family law monographs (“Divorced and yet bound - spousal maintenance between law and morality”, Munich 2008; “Couple relationships and law - legal philosophy and family law of partnership”, Munich 2017).

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Honors

Gerd Brudermüller was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by Federal Minister of Justice Heiko Maas on September 9, 2015 in recognition of his many years of service in the field of family law . He has been a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg since 2014 ; In 2016 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea (London).

Individual evidence

  1. Handbook of Justice 2006/2007 p. 23
  2. https://www.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/zum-tod-von-honorarprofessor-brudermueller
  3. Communication from the Federal Ministry of Justice