Heinrich Erman

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Karl Heinrich Erman (born January 15, 1857 in Berlin , † May 7, 1940 in Munster ) was a German legal scholar with a research focus on Roman law .

Origin and family

Erman was born in 1857 as the son of the physicist and professor at the University of Berlin Georg Adolf Erman (1806–1877) in Berlin. His brothers were the librarian Wilhelm Erman (1850-1932) and the Egyptologist Adolf Erman (1854-1937). His son was the lawyer and founder of the BGB commentary of the same name, Walter Erman (1904–1982). He was married to the granddaughter of Alexander Herzens .

Erman could look back on an ancestral line of academics, his great-grandfather was the historian and Protestant theologian Jean Pierre Erman (1735-1814), his grandfathers the Berlin physicist Berlin Paul Erman (1764-1851) and the Königsberg astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846) ). Like all his brothers he was a member of the Leipzig fraternity Germania .

Life

Heinrich Erman received his doctorate after studying at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin with Heinrich Dernburg with a dissertation on Roman legal history entitled "On the history of Roman receipts and solution files" . Without a habilitation, he was appointed professor of Roman law at the Swiss Université de Lausanne in 1883 . There he held lectures on Roman law from the winter semester 1883/84, initially in French, and from the winter semester 1886/87 at the otherwise French-speaking university, lecturing in German for the first time. He is a co-founder of the Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne .

After the BGB had been passed in Germany in 1896 (which came into force on January 1, 1900), Erman held lectures on the new German civil law in Lausanne from 1897. When Erman left Lausanne in 1902 after 19 years, a German-language chair for German law was set up at his request at the University of Lausanne , which continues to this day. In the summer semester of 1902 Erman was appointed to the newly founded law faculty at the University of Münster , where he was rector from 1908 to 1909 and vice-rector from 1909 to 1910. Until his retirement in 1925, he mainly dealt with the land reform of the Weimar constitution and wrote several papers on it. Since 1920 Erman belonged to the inner board of the Bund Deutscher Bodenreformer . From 1924 he was deputy chairman. After his retirement, Erman took over the lectures for German and Roman law at the University of Lausanne in 1928 and returned to Münster in 1933, where he died in May 1940.

Erman was an honorary member of the Academic and Legal Association of Münster.

Works

  • On the history of the Roman receipts and solution files. (Dissertation, with a foreword by his doctoral supervisor Heinrich Dernburg ) Berlin, Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht 1883
  • Roman law, 1884 to 1894. Leipzig, Hinrich 1895
  • Servus vicarius - l'esclave de l'esclave romain. (Reprint of the edition) Lausanne, 1896
  • The Pompeian wax tablets. Weimar, Böhlau 1899
  • Heritable building rights and small apartment construction. Munster i. W., Obertüschen 1907
  • To deal with the actions in the post-classical law books. 1907
  • From Münster to Westphalian University! Munster i. W., Obertüschen 1909
  • Pignus hypothecave. Paris, Rousseau 1912
  • The new land law (Article 155 of the Imperial Constitution) - treatises from d. Settlement seminar d. University of Munster. (Journal, edited by Heinrich Erman)
  • The basics for a warrior home law. Berlin, Land Reform, 1916, 3. – 5. Thousand
  • People's settlement. Berlin, Gebr. Mann, 1925
  • The great commitment to the German land reform (on Adolf Damaschke's 60th birthday). Frankfurt / Oder, Trowitzsch & Son, 1926
  • The great confession book of the German land reform. Frankfurt / Oder, Trowitzsch & Son 1926
  • Experienced and strived for. 1927
  • The land reform in the imperial constitution. Berlin, Reimar Hobbing , 1930
  • The German aid association in Lausanne and its founder Hermann Wiener. Lausanne, Frankfurter, 1931

literature

  • Sebastian Felz: In the spirit of truth? Between science and politics. The Münster jurists from the Weimar Republic to the early Federal Republic. In: Hans-Ulrich Thamer , Daniel Droste, Sabine Happ (eds.): The University of Münster in National Socialism. Continuities and breaks between 1920 and 1960 (= publications of the Münster University Archives. Vol. 5). Aschendorff, Münster 2012, Vol. 1, pp. 347-412.
  • Sebastian Felz: Rival regulatory rationalities. The discussion of the housing issue in the “Verein für Socialpolitik” and the “Bund deutscher Bodenreformer” around 1900. In: Peter Collin (Ed.): Meeting rooms of legal and economic regulatory rationalities (= studies on European legal history. Publications of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal history Frankfurt am Main. Vol. 286). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2014, pp. 139–164.
  • Max Kaser : In Memoriam Heinrich Erman. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Romance Department, Vol. 61 (1941), pp. 497-503.
  • Bodo Pieroth (ed.): Heinrich and Walter Erman. Documentation of the memorial event on September 19, 2004 at the Faculty of Law in Münster. Lit, Münster 2005.
  • Gratiae Fructus. Festschrift in honor of the University of Lausanne. 100 years of teaching German law at the University of Lausanne. 110 years of the Germania Lausanne Corporation. Edited by Old gentlemen's association of the Germania Lausanne corporation . Donau-Druck, Regensburg 1997 (contains, inter alia, relevant articles by former holders of the Lausanne chair for German law, Karl Heinz Neumayer , Ulrich Immenga and Fritz Sturm ).
  • Harald Lönnecker : "The topic was and remained without parallel appearance in German historical research". The Burschenschaftliche Historische Kommission (BHK) and the Gesellschaft für Burschenschaftliche Geschichtsforschung e. V. (GfbG) (1898 / 1909-2009). A history of people, institutions and science (presentations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, vol. 18), Heidelberg 2009, p. 104.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [Hirschfeld, Adolf / Franke, August]: History of the Leipzig Burschenschaft Germania 1859-1879. Ceremony for the twentieth foundation festival on July 25, 26, 27 and 28, 1879 , undated undated (Leipzig 1879), p. 73, no. 282
  2. ^ Knaake, Emil / Thiele, Wolfgang / Tornius, Valerian / Leonhardt, Hans (arr.): History of the Leipziger Burschenschaft Germania 1818-1928 , Leipzig undated (1928), p. 216
  3. ↑ Lönnecker, Harald: "... give the German student body and our legal life some impetus" - between association and connection, self-help organization and student association. Legal associations at German universities around 1870–1918 (Rostocker Rechtsgeschichtliche Reihe, vol. 13), Aachen 2013, pp. 17, 91.
predecessor Office successor
Georg Erler Rector of the University of Münster
1908–1909 		Karl Busz
personal data
SURNAME Erman, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erman, Karl Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1940
Place of death Muenster