Hans Jürgen Sonnenberger

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hans Jürgen Sonnenberger (born December 14, 1933 in Dessau ) is a German legal scholar . From 1986 to 2002 he was full professor for civil law , commercial law , comparative law and international private law , as well as foreign law and Franco-German comparative law at the LMU Munich .

Life

Sonnenberger was born in Dessau in 1933. From 1952 he studied theology and philosophy in Halle and Erfurt, and since 1955 philosophy and German at the University of Munich. From 1956 he studied law in Munich and graduated in 1960 with the first state examination. He got a job as a research assistant at Murad Ferid in Munich and received his doctorate a year later with the work The Significance of the Basic Law for German International Private Law. The second state examination in law followed in 1964. From 1967 onwards, he undertook research stays in Pavia, Aix-en-Provence, Liège and Leiden as a DFG scholarship holder.

In 1969, Sonnenberger completed his habilitation with Murad Ferid with a paper on traffic manners in the contract of obligations - a comparative legal contribution to the doctrine of legal sources . He received his first professorship at the University of Augsburg , where he taught until 1986. In 1986 he accepted a call to Munich as the successor of Murad Ferid to the chair for civil law, commercial law, comparative law and international private law, as well as foreign law, German-French comparative law , where he worked until his retirement on April 1, 2002. Sonnenberger was visiting professor at the universities of Aix-en-Provence (1984, 1988, 1999), Bordeaux (1994), Paris (1993), Ferrara and Verona.

Publications

  • The significance of the Basic Law for German international private law. 1962 (dissertation), OCLC 30149488 .
  • Common customs in the contract of obligations (habilitation thesis; = Münchener Universitätsschriften. 12). Beck, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-406-02902-7 .
  • Introduction to French Law. 1972, ISBN 3-534-05503-9 .
  • French commercial and economic law (= series Law of the international economy. 12). 1975, ISBN 3-8005-6176-X .
  • French civil law. (founded by Murad Ferid ) Volume 2: Law of Obligations. The individual obligations, property law. 2nd edition 1986, ISBN 3-8005-6751-2 , Volume 1/1, 2nd edition 1994, ISBN 3-8005-6750-4 .
  • with Christian Autexier: Introduction to French law. 3rd edition, Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8005-1238-6 .
  • Munich Commentary on the Civil Code 11. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-45878-5 .
  • Proposals and reports on the reform of European and German international company law (= materials on foreign and international private law. 47). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-149307-2 .

Honors and memberships

  • 1978 member of the German Council for International Private Law
  • 1993 Commandeur dans l' Order des Palmes Académiques
  • 1995 Chairman of the second commission (law of obligations, property law, international procedural law) of the German Council for International Private Law
  • 1998 Chairman of the Bavarian-French University Center
  • 2000 Member of the German-French University Council
  • 2002 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • Dr. hc University of Panthéon-Assas Paris II
  • Member of the Accademia dei giusprivatisti Europei Pavia
  • Corresponding member of the Association Henri Capitant
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Montgelas Society

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Sonnenberger, Hans Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau