Hans Hattenhauer

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Hans Hattenhauer (1965)

Hans Joachim Hattenhauer (born September 8, 1931 in Groß Mellen , Saatzig district , Pomerania province ; † March 20, 2015 in Speyer ) was a German legal historian . Hattenhauer taught from 1965 to 1996 as a professor for German (and European) legal history, civil law and commercial history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . As one of the first legal historians, he opened up German legal history to the European perspective. Through his work and initiatives, he has made a significant contribution to Kiel's reputation in the field of legal history.

Live and act

Hans Hattenhauer was born on September 8, 1931 in a small village in Pomerania. He was the sixth of eight children of the Baptist preacher Alfred Hattenhauer and his wife. He came from a humble background. Hattenhauer grew up in a biblical and religious environment. In 1937 the family moved to Korbach . The Baptist church there had called the father as a preacher. At the same time, the children had the opportunity to attend a “high school”. From 1942 he attended high school. His school days were interrupted due to the war. In 1952 he passed the Abitur at the old state school in Korbach . From the summer semester of 1952 he studied law at the University of Marburg . Hattenhauer was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation . In December 1955 he passed the first state examination. He continued his studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and started working on his dissertation. From February 1958 to November 1959 he was a research assistant. In July 1958 he received his doctorate in Marburg with a thesis supervised by Hermann Krawinkel on the importance of God's and rural peace for legislation in Germany. In May 1960, he passed the second state examination at the State Legal Examination Office of Hesse. From August 1960 to the end of March 1965 he was Hermann Krawinkel's research assistant in Marburg. He completed his habilitation in June 1964 with a thesis on the right to dispose of land in the Middle Ages. The work was published in 1969. From January 1965 worked as a lecturer at the University of Marburg. There he had a teaching position for German legal history in the winter semester 1964/65.

Hattenhauer taught from 1965 to 1996 as a professor for German legal history, civil law and commercial history at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In September 1971, he turned down an offer at the University of Munich . From 1971 to 1972 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law. In 1973/74 he was rector of Kiel University. From July 1976 until his retirement at the end of September 1996 he was director of the legal seminar. In 1978 he is a representative in the cultural senate of the city of Kiel. In the 1980s, in collaboration with the Université Paris V and the Institut Catholique de Paris, he set up the Paris program of the Kiel Faculty of Law. This enabled Kiel students to spend a semester in Paris. Hattenhauer took on visiting lectureships in the USA and Russia. His chair was expanded in 1993 to include the field of “German and European Legal History”. Hattenhauer supervised a total of 107 dissertations and three habilitations. Even after his retirement until the beginning of 2007, he supervised several dissertations. Jürgen Brand , Jörn Eckert and Rainer Polley were among his academic students . After his retirement he was one of the co-initiators of the Legal History Days in the Baltic Sea region. Since 2000 these have been held in various university cities in the individual Baltic Sea states.

Hattenhauer combined legal history with current political issues. The focus was on family law, civil servant law, justice and legal training. In marriage law, he often made conservative contributions. Dissertation on peace in God and in the country and habilitation on the discovery of the power of disposal were still devoted to mediaeval topics. In 1967, together with his assistant Arno Buschmann, he published the textbook on the history of modern private law . It was a collection of sources covering the beginnings of the medieval university system up to the Napoleonic Code and the Civil Code . Editions that have become fundamental come from Hattenhauer. In 1970 he presented a modern edition of the General Land Law for the Prussian States from 1794 and thus closed a research gap. In 1996 the third edition appeared. Hattenhauer published an edition on the codification writings of Thibaut and Savigny . With the intellectual historical foundations of current German law , he presented the first German legal history of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1992 he published his account of European legal history. It was the first European legal history. The work ranges from Roman law to the European treaties and institutions. The work became a standard work and was published in its fourth edition in 2004. The next European legal history to be written in German did not appear until ten to fifteen years after Hattenhauer's work. In 1978 he founded the legal history series with the memorial for Wilhelm Ebel , which now includes almost 500 titles. He was co-editor of the series until his death. In 1980 he published a history of the German civil service. For the first time since the work written by Albert Lotz in 1909, a comprehensive history of the civil service in Germany was available. Hattenhauer called his work a "history of ideas of the German civil service". The presentation is divided into three parts with the prehistory up to 1800, the 19th century and the more recent development from 1918 to the early years of the Federal Republic. In many cases he also dealt with the National Socialist dictatorship, including the biography of the Kiel legal historian Eugen Wohlhaupter . In the 1987 documentary on Wohlhaupter, he rejected the attempt “by some contemporaries to justify their world and worldview at the expense of their fathers”. The knowledge of the Hitler era cannot be "tracked down by prematurely introducing modern judgments and later findings". Hattenhauer also published numerous articles on the law of the GDR. He was also interested in symbols and signs. In 1984 he published the representation of German national symbols .

Hattenhauer was an avowed Baptist . Up until old age he took on spiritual functions in his free church communities. With his long-time friend Peter Dienel he visited Baptist congregations in the GDR. Hattenhauer was one of the few scientists who made professional contacts in the GDR and Eastern Europe during the Cold War era . From 1981 he held open conferences on topics related to the history of canon law in Mecklenburg. In this way, Hattenhauer wanted to maintain connections with eastern Germany. He was a long-time member of the SPD . In 1965 he married. The marriage resulted in two children, including the legal historian Christian Hattenhauer . After the death of his wife in 2005, Hattenhauer moved to live with his daughter in Speyer. His last essay, which he completed a few days before his death, dealt with Speyer.

Hattenhauer was awarded numerous scientific honors for his research. In 1973 he became a Star Commander of the Order of Saint Olav for his collaboration with Scandinavian colleagues . In 1975, at the age of 44, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon . Hattenhauer was praised several times for his writing style and the preparation of complex issues using understandable language. In 1995 he received the German Language Prize of the Henning Kaufmann Foundation for maintaining the purity of the German language . He was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor (Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur) in 2003. He was given the extraordinary honor of being a necrologist in both the German and canonical departments of the Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte magazine . In the last two decades this was only the case with Adalbert Erler .

Fonts (selection)

A list of publications appeared in: Jürgen Brand: In memoriam. A fighter before the Lord. Hans Hattenhauer 1931–2015. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 133 (2016), pp. 815–843, here: pp. 833–843.

  • General land law for the Prussian states from 1794. With an introduction by Hans Hattenhauer and a bibliography by Günther Bernert . Metzner, Frankfurt am Main 1970; 3rd edition: Luchterhand, Neuwied 1996, ISBN 3-472-02596-4 .
  • Thibaut and Savigny. Your programmatic writings. Vahlen, Munich 1973; 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 3-8006-2783-3 .
  • History of the civil service (= manual of the public service. Vol. 1). Heymann, Cologne 1980; 2nd edition 1993, ISBN 3-452-22583-6 .
  • German national symbols. History and meaning. Olzog, Munich 1980; 4th edition 2006, ISBN 3-7892-8183-2 .
  • The acceptance of the Normans into the West Frankish Empire. Saint Clair-sur-Epte AD 911. Presented at the meeting on January 19, 1990. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-525-86245-8 .
  • European legal history. Müller, Heidelberg 1992; 4th edition 2004, ISBN 3-8114-8404-4 .

literature

  • Inge Auerbach (arrangement): Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis, 2: 1911–1971 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse in conjunction with the Philipps University of Marburg. Vol. 15). Elwert, Marburg 1979, ISBN 3-7708-0662-X , p. 104.
  • Jürgen Brand: In memoriam. A fighter before the Lord. Hans Hattenhauer 1931–2015. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 133 (2016), pp. 815–843.
  • Arno Buschmann: Hans Hattenhauer on his 70th birthday. In: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 37/2001, p. 2686 f.
  • Jörn Eckert (ed.): The practical use of legal history. Hans Hattenhauer on September 8, 2001. Müller, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-8114-5132-4 .
  • Gerhard Köbler : German legal historians: Thousands of German-speaking legal historians from the past and present (= work on law and linguistics. Vol. 67). Works on law and linguistics publishing house, Giessen 2006, ISBN 3-88430-078-4 , p. 84 f.
  • Rudolf Meyer-Pritzl : In memoriam Prof. Dr. iur. Hans Hattenhauer. In: Christiana Albertina. Research and reports from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 80 (2015), pp. 118–119.
  • Rainer Polley Hans Hattenhauer (September 8, 1931– March 20, 2015). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Canonical Department 102 (2016), pp. 548–554.
  • Jan Schröder : Hans Hattenhauer †. In: JuristenZeitung 11/2015, pp. 570–571.

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Hans Hattenhauer: The discovery of the power of disposal. Studies on the history of land disposal in German law in the Middle Ages. Hamburg 1969.
  2. ^ Rainer Polley: Hans Hattenhauer (September 8, 1931– March 20, 2015). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Canonical Department 102 (2016), pp. 548–554, here: p. 551.
  3. ^ Rainer Polley: Hans Hattenhauer (September 8, 1931– March 20, 2015). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Canonical Department 102 (2016), pp. 548–554, here: p. 549.
  4. ^ Rainer Polley: Hans Hattenhauer (September 8, 1931– March 20, 2015). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Canonical Department 102 (2016), pp. 548–554, here: p. 552.
  5. ↑ Jan Schröder: Hans Hattenhauer †. In: JuristenZeitung 11/2015, pp. 570–571, ​​here: p. 570.
  6. ↑ Jürgen Brand: In memoriam. A fighter before the Lord. Hans Hattenhauer 1931–2015. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 133 (2016), pp. 815–843, here: p. 821.
  7. ↑ See the review by Bernd Wunder in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 11 (1984), pp. 102-104.
  8. ^ Hans Hattenhauer (ed.): Law in the Nazi state. The Eugen Wohlhaupter case. Heidelberg 1987, SV
  9. ^ Rudolf Meyer-Pritzl: In memoriam Prof. Dr. iur. Hans Hattenhauer. In: Christiana Albertina. Research and reports from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 80 (2015), pp. 118–119, here: p. 118.
  10. ↑ Jürgen Brand: In memoriam. A fighter before the Lord. Hans Hattenhauer 1931–2015. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 133 (2016), pp. 815–843, here: pp. 830f.
  11. ↑ Jürgen Brand: In memoriam. A fighter before the Lord. Hans Hattenhauer 1931–2015. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 133 (2016), pp. 815–843, here: p. 816.
  12. ↑ Hans Hattenhauer: Speyer - a piece of heaven on earth? In: Pfälzer Heimat 2015, pp. 69–78.
  13. ^ Rainer Polley: Hans Hattenhauer (September 8, 1931– March 20, 2015). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Canonical Department 102 (2016), pp. 548–554, here: pp. 551 f.
  14. ^ Rainer Polley: Hans Hattenhauer (September 8, 1931– March 20, 2015). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Canonical Department 102 (2016), pp. 548–554, here: pp. 548 f.
personal data
SURNAME Hattenhauer, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hattenhauer, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Mellen
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 2015
Place of death Speyer