Hans Würdinger

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Hans Würdinger (born May 18, 1903 in Munich ; † July 17, 1989 there ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

After 1922, Würdinger studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , passed the first state law examination in 1926 and received his doctorate in 1927/28 under Wilhelm Kisch . In 1932 he completed his habilitation there with Konrad Beyerle and Rudolf Müller-Erzbach . In 1933 he received the license to teach in Munich and the professorship for civil law and commercial law. In the winter semester of 1933/34 he moved to the Georg-August University in Göttingen as the successor to Paul Oertmann and in 1935 to Wroclaw, succeeding Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy . Allegedly through Hermann Göring's mediation , he went to the University of Vienna for the winter semester of 1938 and to Hamburg in 1944 . There he held a professorship for commercial, corporate and maritime law. In 1969 he retired and then moved to Munich.

Würdinger was not a member of the NSDAP , but the SS . He was a member of the Academy for German Law and had sympathy for National Socialism . In the summer of 1935 he gave a lecture at the Kitzeberg camp of the “ Kiel School ”, and in 1936 he gave a lecture at the conference on Jews in law organized by Carl Schmitt .

Würdinger's main research interests were civil law , commercial law and business law , comparative law and legal history .

Publications

  • Private law entitlement as a legal term , 1928 (dissertation).
  • History of the agency in England , 1933 (habilitation thesis).
  • Theory of the simple community of interests , 1934; Reprint 1970.
  • Judaism in Commercial Law , 1936 (lecture).
  • Societies. Part 1: Law of partnerships , 1937.
  • The limited partnership , 1939.
  • Societies. Part 2: Law of corporations , 1943.
  • Company law , 1959; Stock corporation law and the law of affiliated companies , 4th ed. 1981.
  • (together with Dieter Brüggemann , Robert Fischer , Paul Ratz, Wolfgang Schilling): Commercial Code , founded by Hermann Staub , 3rd edition 1971 ff.
  • Stock corporation and corporate law , 1959, 2nd edition 1966, 3rd edition 1973.
  • German Company Law , 1975.

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personal data
SURNAME Würdinger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1989
Place of death Munich