Gerhard von Beseler

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Gerhard Friedrich von Beseler (born January 24, 1878 in Berlin ; † December 27, 1947 in Oberaudorf ) was a German lawyer and university professor .

family

He came from a family of lawyers. His grandfather was the legal scholar Georg Beseler , his father the judge and later Prussian Minister of Justice Max von Beseler .

Live and act

After finishing school, Gerhard von Beseler studied law in Berlin , Bonn , Freiburg and Kiel . He spent his legal clerkship in Preetz , Itzehoe and Kiel; in 1904 he received his doctorate in Kiel, and in 1906 he completed his habilitation there. From 1911 he worked as titular, from 1915 as honorary professor for civil law and Roman law at the Christian Albrechts University . An appointment to a professorship was prevented by his very direct and sometimes openly impolite interaction with both students and colleagues.

In 1919, von Beseler and Gustav Radbruch had a debate about the importance of Roman law in the training of lawyers at that time. Among other things, in his campaign pamphlet "Roman Law and Revolution" against Radbruch, he took the position that Roman law should be given a high priority, since its processing also provides a better understanding of contemporary dogmatics. He published his scientific papers as a freelance author in several articles in the Kreuzzeitung .

Although politically conservative and rather skeptical about the Weimar Republic , the controversial interpolation researcher von Beseler had to retire to Munich as a private scholar a few years after the National Socialists came to power in 1936 . After his apartment in Munich was destroyed in 1944, he left the city and died in his last place of residence in Oberaudorf in 1947.

literature

  • Otto Kähler : Professor Gerhard von Beseler . In: Schleswig-Holstein advertisements . Part A. Volume 195 , no. 7 , 1948, ISSN  1860-9643 , pp. 149-151 .
  • Karl Siegfried Bader:  Beseler, Gerhard Friedrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 175 ( digitized version ).
  • Rudolf Meyer-Pritzl: Gerhard von Beseler (1878-1947) - fighter for Roman law in the Empire, in the Weimar Republic and during the Nazi era ; in: Ditlev Tamm, Helle Vogt (ed.), Nationalism and Legal History in the Baltic Sea Region after 1800. Contributions to the 5th Legal History Day in the Baltic Sea Region, 3rd – 4th November 2008 in Copenhagen, København 2010, pp. 136–156.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Radbruch: Political writings from the Weimar period: Justice, educational and religious policy. CF Müller GmbH, 1993. p. 290.
  2. ↑ Max Kaser : Roman legal sources and applied legal method. In: Research on Roman Law , Vol. 36, Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1986, ISBN 3-205-05001-0 , pp. 123–125.
personal data
SURNAME Beseler, Gerhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1947
Place of death Oberaudorf