Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR

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The Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR (1972–1990), also referred to in its letterhead as the Association for Maritime Law of the German Democratic Republic , was founded on June 22, 1972 in Rostock as an association for the promotion of international and national law of the sea , including fishing law, founded.

Individuals as well as legal entities such as companies, e.g. B. the Institute for Oceanography of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Rostock-Warnemünde as well as other scientific institutions, social organizations u. a. become. The board of directors, elected for three years each, decided on admission. The first president of the society was Jörgen Haalck from Rostock . His successor was Ralf Richter, a lawyer born in 1931 and later Rostock University Professor, who linked maritime law with economic issues. Immediately after its founding, the 15-person board consisted of three vice-presidents: Gerhard Reintanz, an international lawyer from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in Halle (Saale) ; Heinz Rentner (born January 12, 1931), Head of the Maritime Transport and Port Management Department and from 1973 to 1990 Deputy Minister for Transport a. a. responsible for maritime transport in the GDR; Joachim Waßmann, Vice President of the Maritime Transport and Port Management Directorate of the GDR. In 1981 Reintanz, who had retired from Halle three years earlier, was appointed honorary president of the Society for the Law of the Sea. A secretary, for many years the lawyer Adolf Hauer - he took over from Rudi Frenzel - also member of the board and full-time in the directorate for research and development, VEB Seeverkehr und Hafenwirtschaft Rostock, signed for the correspondence with the members, the organization of appointments and the like. a. m. responsible. He was followed by the lawyer Gerold Kantner. The board decided to form interest groups in the areas of maritime trade law , international maritime law , fishing law, state maritime law and maritime labor law. The Chairman of the Working Group on International Sea Law / Fisheries Law was board member Günter Hepper from the Warnemünde-Wustrow Maritime Engineering College (IHS) . A particularly close cooperation existed with the Society for International Law in the GDR, which was founded in 1965 . Harry Wünsche (* 1929 to † 2008) and Norbert Sportwetten as well as Harald Frühauf, who played a key role in the GDR Maritime Law Society and worked full-time in academic research at the Academy of Law , were permanent members of the GDR delegation headed by the diplomat Gunter Görner (* 1939) for III. UN Conference on the Law of the Sea . A long-standing member of the board (1974–1991) was the Rostock maritime law expert Max Oesau (* 1937), most recently professor of maritime trade law. The interest groups Maritime State and Administrative Law as well as Maritime Trade Law held a conference in December 1974 together with the Warnemünde-Wustrow Maritime Engineering College under the direction of P. Reichenbach from the GDR Maritime Office (SFA) in the former house of the Rostock Army , since July 1, 1992 the Higher Regional Court Rostock .

As part of the dissolution of the Society of Maritime Law of the GDR its members have been advised of the possibility of the German Association for International Maritime Law to become a member (German Maritime Law Association). Former members made use of this, for example the lawyer and former law professor Norberteith, who was a member of the German Association for Internationales Maritime Law, German National Group of the Comité Maritime International until 2007 and who specialized in liability in connection with the transport of dangerous goods by sea . As a GDR legal scholar from Potsdam-Babelsberg, Norbert Sportwetten was able to give a lecture for the first time to the German Association for International Maritime Law on May 29, 1986 in Hamburg on liability for damage from the transport of dangerous goods at sea, which in an expanded and revised version in a series of publications by this association was published.

Working in the GDR

The company had set itself the goal of contributing to peaceful international cooperation. For example, the Maritime Law Society of the GDR supported the efforts of the International Shipping Committee Comité Maritime International (CMI) in the field of maritime law, in particular for the international standardization of the provisions of maritime and commercial law as well as shipping and port customs. As a participant, the President of the GDR Maritime Law Society published reports on the CMI conferences. The society promoted the exchange of information among scientists and practitioners through the formation of interest groups and ad hoc working groups. The legal side of the exploration and use of the mineral and living resources of the sea as well as the seabed, as described on the III. UN maritime law conferences was also one of the areas of interest. Together with the Rostock University, the Society for International Law in the GDR and the GDR section of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy , the Society for Maritime Law organized the occasion of Hugo Grotius' 400th birthday in Rostock on March 15 and 16, 1983 a scientific conference at which legal and social philosophers as well as international law experts and the Rostock theologian Fritzsche (* 1929 to † 2014) made fundamental statements about the importance of Grotius as the "father of international law" and "founder of international peace" in presentations and discussions. The society often published new findings on national and international maritime law in its own publications, the authors of which were members of the Society for Maritime Law of the GDR. Reports on the general meetings appeared in the journal Seewirtschaft , the specialist body for shipbuilding, shipping, deep-sea fishing, marine technology / Chamber of Technology , Association of Vehicle Construction and Transport, which appeared until 1990.

Publications (selection)

  • The freedom of the seas today. New trends in the development of the law of the sea in connection with the 3rd United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea . Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR. Society for international law in the GDR. Current contributions in political science and law, (Issue 122); Potsdam-Babelsberg: Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR, State and Law Information Center, 1975
  • Contributions to the law of the sea. A memorial for Jörgen Haalck 1924–1976 . Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR, Rostock 1978.
  • Law of the Sea and International Economic Cooperation . Materials from the international scientific conference "Law of the Sea and International Cooperation" from 24. – 25. October 1978 in Rostock. Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR, Rostock 1979.
  • Scientific and technical revolution, ship safety and maritime environmental protection in international maritime law . Materials of international scientific. Conference of the Law of the Sea and International Cooperation. Organized by the Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the German Democratic Republic and the Wilhelm Pieck University Rostock, Section Socialist Business Administration from October 24th to 25th 1978 in Rostock (2nd part of the materials), contributions to national and international law of the sea (Issue 3) . Rostock, 1979
  • Special legal problems of the Nuvoy Charter, Incoterms 1980 . Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR, Rostock 1981.
  • The III. UN Conference on the Law of the Sea - Status and prospects, results and consequences . Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR, Rostock 1982.
  • Hugo Grotius 1583-1645 . Elchlepp / Reintanz / Schoepke (editors: Friedrich Elchlepp , Adolf Hauer, Gerold Kantner, Ralf Richter) Society for Maritime Law of the GDR, Rostock 1983.
  • Legal issues of maritime environmental protection (Editor: Hans-Jürgen Box). Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR, Rostock 1984.
  • Sea transport: market regulation, documentation, risks . Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR, Rostock 1985.
  • Fishing law . Co-author: Gunter Görner. Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR, Rostock 1986.
  • Scientific and technical progress and maritime law . Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR, Rostock 1987.
  • Shipping finance . Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR, Rostock 1988.
  • Maritime insurance: Lisbon rules 1987 (German version). Contributions to national and international maritime law (issue 15). Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR, Rostock 1989.
  • Right of Evidence in the Sea Trial . Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR, Rostock 1990.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Handbook of Social Organizations in the GDR , ed. Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR Potsdam-Babelsberg, Berlin 1985, keyword: Society for Maritime Law of the GDR, p. 81 f.
  2. ↑ In the founding year 1972, the individual members received a from President Prof. Dr. Haalck and Secretary Dr. Frenzel signed a letter about your admission in which it said among other things: "We would like to inform you that the board has confirmed you as a member of the Society for Maritime Law. We are pleased that we can count on your participation and wish you a successful cooperation. .. We allow ourselves to draw your attention once again to the payment of the fee. The annual fee is 20, - M. "- Private archive Schudi 45
  3. ^ Statutes of the "Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR" and resolution of the Council of Ministers on the establishment of the "Society for the Law of the Sea of ​​the GDR" in the Federal Archives, Berlin-Lichterfelde location, archive signature: DM 1/8152
  4. ^ New Germany newspaper of June 23, 1972, p. 4: Society for Maritime Law of the GDR founded in Rostock; see also Jörgen Haalck / Rudi Frenzel In matters of maritime law: The Society for Maritime Law of the GDR in: Marinekalender 1975, Berlin, 1974
  5. ^ Author of numerous publications; DNB portal: list
  6. ↑ z. B. in his lecture Tradition and Revolution , held as part of an honorary colloquium on the occasion of Gerhard Reintanz's 70th birthday in Halle (Saale); see. Daily newspaper Neue Zeit of March 14, 1984, p. 6
  7. ^ Reintanz, Gerhard: Founding of the Society for Maritime Law of the GDR . In: German Foreign Policy, Volume 18, Issue 1 from 1973, pp. 188 ff.
  8. ↑ Our portrait: Prof. Dr. GERHARD REINTANZ in: "Union shares with (Utm)", issue 9/1989, p. 20
  9. ^ Author and editor of numerous articles for the publications of the Society for Maritime Law of the GDR; Listed under the German National Library
  10. ↑ Zeitschrift Seewirtschaft (Berlin), Issue 9/1975, p. 532 under the heading Maritime Law
  11. ↑ Dissertation topic: On some selected legal issues of atomic energy and radioactivity in maritime shipping. DNB 810565374
  12. ^ Entry by "Günter Hepper" in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium, (accessed on January 15, 2015); CV with portrait photo
  13. ↑ Görner, Gunter: Völkerrecht in the context of its time , Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza / Thuringia, 2014, p. 248; ISBN 978-3-86777-742-1
  14. ^ Entry by "Max Oesau" in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium , accessed on December 17, 2014
  15. ↑ From the Society for the Law of the Sea . In: Seewirtschaft , No. 3 from 1975, p. 137
  16. ^ Purpose of the German Association for International Maritime Law e. V. - Member of the Comité Maritime International - is the promotion of the development of internationally uniform maritime law. Homepage of DVIS
  17. ↑ Author of The Revision of the Conventions on Civil Liability for Damage from Oil Pollution in the Sea and on the Establishment of a Compensation Fund , Ed. Akademie für Staats- u. Law d. GDR, Institute for Foreign Law a. Comparative law; Current contributions in political science and law; Volume 340, Potsdam-Babelsberg, 1987
  18. ^ Announcement of the resignation of Prof. Dr. Norberteith in the member's announcement of May 11, 2007
  19. ↑ He gave a corresponding lecture on this subject at the first Rostock conversation on maritime law on October 12, 1993 with the topic: Current problems of liability for damage caused by marine pollution ; University of Rostock: Law Faculty and Baltic Sea Institute
  20. ^ Despite, Norbert: Liability for damage from the transport of dangerous goods by sea - does the international regulation still have a chance? , German Association for Internationales Maritime Law: Papers of the German Association for Internationales Maritime Law: Series A, reports and lectures; H. 62, Hamburg, 1987
  21. ^ Haalck, J .: XXX. CMI conference in Hamburg . In: Seewirtschaft Heft 6 from 1974 p. 326; Annual meeting of the CMI in Brussels . In: Seewirtschaft Heft 4 from 1976, p. 263
  22. ^ Message from ADN , published in the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland on March 19, 1983, p. 13
  23. ^ Fritzsche, Helmut Theology Professor at the University of Rostock
  24. ↑ New Germany daily newspaper , April 9, 1983, p. 13
  25. ↑ Neue Zeit newspaper , April 9, 1983, p. 4
  26. ^ Report on the scientific conference by Box, H.-J, / Hoffmann, G. In: Staat und Recht Issue 6 from 1983, pp. 484–487.
  27. ↑ A. Hauer reported in it z. B. on the general meeting of the Society for Maritime Law 1976, which took place in the Institute for Oceanography in Warnemünde; Seewirtschaft Heft 8 from 1976, p. 455f.
  28. ^ Professor in Rostock: 1969-1991 last president of the Society for Maritime Law of the GDR; Entry in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium , (accessed December 17, 2014).