Hans Grossmann-Doerth

Hans Großmann-Doerth (born September 9, 1894 in Hamburg ; † March 5, 1944 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German lawyer and an important representative of ordoliberalism (" Freiburg School ").

Life

Hans Großmann-Doerth was born as the son of Louis Großmann, the head of the Hamburg Seewarte. After studying at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and serving in the First World War , he finished his legal studies at the newly founded University of Hamburg and received his doctorate there in 1923 with Moritz Liepmann with a thesis on criminal law. After his legal exams, he first worked as a local judge in Hamburg. In 1929 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg with Hans Wüstendörfer with a study on "The right to buy overseas". In 1930 he was appointed professor at the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague and in 1933 he moved to the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg, where he took over a chair for commercial law, business law, labor law and civil law. Called up for military service in 1939, Großmann-Doerth was seriously wounded as a lieutenant colonel and regimental commander in February 1944 on the Eastern Front and died in a hospital in Königsberg.

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Großmann-Doerth is, together with Walter Eucken and Franz Böhm, a founder of the Freiburg School of Ordoliberalism . His writings are characterized by a comprehensive consideration of legal practice and an emphasis on the personal responsibility of business subjects. His habilitation thesis "The Law of Overseas Purchase" became a standard work through the recording and evaluation of trade customs and unwritten law, in which the "law in action" was presented in contrast to the "law in the books". In his inaugural lecture in Hamburg entitled “Today's Business Jurist”, research into legal facts and the need for comparative law are emphasized. He developed the program of his work in Freiburg in his inaugural lecture held on May 11, 1933, “The self-created law of the economy and state law”. Together with Walter Eucken and Franz Böhm , Großmann-Doerth published the pragmatic text “Order of the Economy” in 1937.

literature

• Franz Böhm:  Großmann-Doerth, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 155 ( digitized version ).
• Uwe Blaurock , Nils Goldschmidt, Alexander Hollerbach (eds.): The self-created law of the economy - In memory of Hans Großmann-Doerth. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2005 (contributions to the theory of order and policy, vol. 171), ISBN 3-16-148653-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Großmann-Doerth in the catalog of the German National Library