Gerhard Alexander Leist

Gerhard Alexander Leist (born October 17, 1862 in Jena ; † December 3, 1918 in Göttingen ) was a German legal scholar who worked as a professor of Roman and German civil law at the Universities of Marburg (1893–1895), Giessen (1895–1917 ) and Göttingen (1892-1893, 1917-1918) taught.

Gerhard Alexander Leist

Life

Paul Gerhard Alexander Leist came from a family of lawyers. He was the son of the legal scholar Burkard Wilhelm Leist (1819–1906), who was Professor of Roman Law at the University of Jena from 1853 , and Julie Leist, b. Müller (1826-1907).

Gerhard Alexander Leist studied law at the universities of Leipzig , Berlin , Jena and Tübingen from 1882 , where he received his doctorate in 1885. jur. received his doctorate . After the state examination, he went to the Higher Regional Court of Celle as a trainee lawyer in 1886 . In 1889 he completed his habilitation for Roman law and private law in Halle and was appointed private lecturer. In 1892 he accepted a position as associate professor at the University of Göttingen . A year later he moved to Marburg . Finally, in 1895, he received the full chair for Roman and German civil law at the University of Giessen , where he taught for more than twenty years. In the academic year 1907/1908 he was the rector of the university. In 1909 he was appointed to the Privy Councilor .

From 1913 to 1917 he was a member of the first chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as a representative of the University of Gießen . On March 13, 1913, he took his MP's oath .

Already at an advanced age he was called to Göttingen again in 1917, as successor to Heinrich Titze . During the First World War he emerged as a conservative patriot, among other things as a signatory of the declaration of university teachers of the German Reich . A few weeks after the defeat of the German Reich, he committed suicide by throwing himself in front of an arriving train at the station.

Leist's academic work was based, like that of his father, on Greek and Roman legal history, but focused mainly on current law. Starting with property law , he developed into a specialist in German association law . He also published numerous individual studies on legal history, such as his articles in the Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity , to which his Marburg colleague Georg Wissowa had consulted him.

Dora Leist, b. wagner

Gerhard Alexander Leist was with Dora Leist, geb. Wagner (1871–1944), married, a daughter of the geographer Hermann Wagner (1840–1929).

Fonts

• The Attic dispute over property in the system of the diadicasias . Jena 1886 (dissertation, Tübingen)
• Securing claims by transferring movables . Jena 1889 (habilitation thesis, Halle). Reprinted Frankfurt am Main 1970
• Association rule and freedom of association in future imperial law . Jena 1899
• Investigations on internal association law with contributions to the law of stock corporations, limited liability companies and cooperatives . Jena 1904
• Can civil legal science be of use to the state? Giessen 1908
• Private Law and Capitalism in the 19th Century . Tubingen 1911

literature

• German lawyers newspaper . Volume 24 (1919), Book I / 2, Col. 73–74 (obituary)
• Franz Gundlach: Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1527 to 1910 . Marburg 1927, p. 151
• Wilhelm Ebel: Catalogus professorum Gottingensium 1734–1962 . Göttingen 1962, p. 53, p. 55
• Johannes Gottlieb Klingelhöfer: The Marburg law faculty in the 19th century . Marburg 1972, p. 111
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 239.
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , pp. 576-577.

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Alexander Leist  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Gerhard Alexander Leist  - sources and full texts

• Entry on Gerhard Alexander Leist in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
• Leist, Paul Gerhard Alexander. Hessian biography. (As of April 7, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).