Hans Planitz

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Hans Planitz (born May 4, 1882 in Kaditz near Dresden ; † January 16, 1954 in Vienna ) was a German legal scholar and legal historian .

Career

Hans Planitz, who grew up as the son of a pastor near Dresden and Leipzig , studied law and history at the Universities of Tübingen and Leipzig from 1901 to 1904 . In 1906 he was promoted to Dr. jur. doctorate, in 1909 he completed his habilitation there. He was then a private lecturer , from 1912 regular associate professor for copyright and patent law in Leipzig. 1913 he became a full professor of German and Swiss civil law to Basel, but went in 1914 as a professor of German, Civil and Commercial Law to the established in the same year, University of Frankfurt am Main and in 1920 finally to the previously re-founded in Cologne University , where he participated again in the establishment of a law faculty. In the years 1921–22, 1931–32 and 1936–39 he was elected their dean , from 1929–30 he was rector of the University of Cologne. In this function, he and the then Mayor of Cologne, Konrad Adenauer , laid the foundation stone for a new main building at the university on October 26, 1929. Planitz turned down several appointments from other universities (Bonn 1922, Heidelberg 1923, Vienna 1934), before he went to the University of Vienna as a professor of German, civil and commercial law in 1941 .

After the collapse of National Socialist rule , Planitz belonged to the group of "Reichsdeutsche" in Austria who, according to the Civil Service Transition Act, could not actually continue to be employed in the civil service. Nevertheless, the Vienna faculty successfully campaigned for him to remain at the university. As a justification, reference was made to his Nazi opposition.

In 1952 the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne awarded him an honorary doctorate . He could no longer follow his appointment as honorary professor for German legal history back to Cologne University (November 1953).

Planitz, who initially dealt with the history of liability and enforcement law in his academic work, later devoted himself mainly to the (legal-historical) development of German urbanism. The legal and economic life of medieval Cologne formed a focus of his work. He made a name for himself with careful source editions as well as with his textbooks and illustrations, which often appeared in multiple editions.

Functions and memberships

Works (selection)

  • The enforcement of assets in German medieval law, Volume I: The garnishment . Engelmann, Leipzig 1912.
  • Basics of the German arrest process. A contribution to German process history . Meiner, Leipzig 1922.
  • Basic features of German private law . Springer, Berlin 1925 (3rd, revised edition 1949).
  • Germanic legal history . Weidmann, Berlin 1936 (3rd, complete edition. Vahlen, Berlin 1944; after 1945 udT: Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte. 2nd edition, edited by Karl August Eckhardt, Böhlau, Cologne 1961; 3rd, supplemented edition. 1971) .
  • The German real estate lien . Böhlau, Weimar 1936.
  • Edited together with Thea Buyken: The Cologne shrine books of the 13th and 14th centuries (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History, Volume 46). Böhlau, Weimar 1937.
  • Source book of German, Austrian and Swiss legal history including German private law . Böhlau, Graz 1948.
  • Edited together with Thea Buyken: Bibliography on German legal history . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1952.
  • The German city in the Middle Ages from Roman times to the guild battles . Böhlau, Cologne 1954 (5th edition 1980).

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Becker: Hans Planitz (1882-1954). Researching the history of German private and enforcement law and the legal history of the German city . In: Steffen Augsberg; Andreas Funke (ed.): Cologne lawyers in the 20th century. Contributions to a lecture series at the University of Cologne, summer semester 2010 and winter semester 2010/2011 (= contributions to the legal history of the 20th century; 74). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2013, pp. 75–99.
  • Hermann Conrad : Hans Planitz † . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department, Volume 71, 1954, pp. XIII – XXVI ( digitized version ).
  • Paul Hauck: Presentation and criticism of the theories about the development of the German urban system. From Wilhelm Arnold to Hans Planitz . Diss., University of Jena 1954.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pfefferle, Roman; Pfefferle, Hans: mildly denazified. The professorships at the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years . V & R unipress, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0275-5 , p. 208 .
personal data
SURNAME Planitz, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaditz near Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1954
Place of death Vienna