Hans-Otto de Boor

Hans-Otto de Boor (born September 9, 1886 in Schleswig ; † February 10, 1956 in Göttingen ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

De Boor was born the son of archivist Albert de Boor and Kathinka Mommsen . After studying history and art history, he then decided to study law in Heidelberg , Berlin and Grenoble . After completing the first and second state examinations in law , he completed his habilitation in 1916/17 at the University of Greifswald with a thesis on the subject of copyright and publishing law . iur. had received a doctorate . In 1913 he married. During his studies in Heidelberg de Boor became a member of the Rupertia Association .

After completing his post-doctoral thesis on copyright and publishing law, de Boor worked in Göttingen from 1917, initially as a private lecturer . In 1921 he was appointed full professor in Frankfurt am Main . In 1934 he went to Marburg , but from 1935 onwards he was professor of German civil law, civil litigation, copyright law and comparative law at the University of Leipzig .

During the Third Reich he was a. a. Member of the National Socialist Legal Guardian Association , the National Socialist Old Masters Association , the Academy for German Law and co-editor of the important copyright journal UFITA . Since 1948 he was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and from 1949 a member of the German Academy of Sciences . In 1950 he left Leipzig - officially for health reasons - and accepted a position at the University of Göttingen.

Act

For more than four decades, de Boor dealt with a reform of German copyright law. In the last few years he was a member of an expert commission of the Federal Ministry of Justice . Another important field of work was comparative law, whereby he mainly devoted himself to research into Anglo-Saxon law. He also did important work on the reform of German civil procedural law .

Works

• Copyright and publishing law , Habil. 1917.
• The decision according to the location of the files. A contribution to the doctrine of written form in the new civil process , 1924.
• The Deutsche Rentenbank and private law. A study of the boundaries between civil and public law , 1924.
• The Collision of Claims , 1928.
• On the nature of copyright. Critical comments on the draft law on the copyright in works of literature, art and photography , 1933.
• The method of English law and the German legal reform. Lecture given in the Frankfurt Working Group for Legal Reform , 1934.
• To reform the civil process. The sense of state and corporate jurisdiction; Inaugural lecture given at the Leipzig Faculty of Law , 1938.
• The easing of the civil process. A contribution to process reform , 1939.
• Litigation, including foreclosure. A floor plan , 1940.
• Foreclosure, bankruptcy, settlement , 1940.
• On the doctrine of party change and the concept of a party , 1941.
• Court protection and legal system. A contribution to the struggle against action law thinking , 1941.
• Civil law , 1954.
• Civil Procedure Law , 1961.

literature

• Condolence letter from M. Volmer for the German Academy of Sciences to the rector of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , in: Wissenschaftliche Annalen. 1956, p. 355.
• Georg Erler, Werner Weber , Eugen Ulmer , Karl Michaelis: Hans-Otto de Boor in memory. Speeches and speeches at the commemoration of the law and political science faculty of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen on June 29, 1956 , Göttingen 1957.
• Isabella Löhr: Hans Otto de Boor (1886–1956) . In: Simon Apel, Louis Pahlow , Matthias Wießner (eds.): Biographisches Handbuch des Intellectual Property , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, pp. 71–75.
• Georg Roeber: Hans-Otto de Boor . In: Archive for Copyright, Film, Radio and Theater Law (UFITA) . tape 21 , 1956, pp. 257 . [Obituary].
• Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 .

Web links

• Hans-Otto de Boor in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Biography and picture
• Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig: Hans Otto de Boor