Heinrich Lange (lawyer)

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Heinrich Lange (born March 25, 1900 in Leipzig , † September 10, 1977 in Starnberg ) was a German civil lawyer.

education

The son of a bank attorney attended the high school in Leipzig. From 1910 he was a student at the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium , where he passed the Abitur in 1919 after serving in the war. He then studied law at the Universities of Leipzig and Munich . In 1922 he passed his first state examination in law. On May 28, 1925 took place doctorate at the University of Leipzig . After successfully passing the second state examination on February 15, 1926, he joined the judicial service in Saxony . At the same time he was assistant to Heinrich Siber , with whom he completed his habilitation on December 19, 1929. In 1929, Lange became a district judge. In the following year he completed his habilitation. Lange rejected liberalism and Weimar democracy. 1931/32 he was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten .

time of the nationalsocialism

Lange was also a die-hard anti-Semite. In 1935, for example, in a magazine article, he stated that the Jews had destroyed the humanistic university by 1933:

“For one, the world of pure science offered a refuge that made him forget his ties to the host people ...... Judaism invaded the faculties, expanded, swelled, a golem, first servant, then Comrade, finally ruler ... One [the German] served selflessly, a professional, the other [the "Jew"] out of calculation: These ["the Jews"] "swarmed around the master, understood how to tell him The German student stayed in the background, he did the same, but was more shameful and closed up an admiration in his heart that the other wore on his tongue. "

- Heinrich Lange

Lange became a member of the NSDAP as early as November 1932 . With the beginning of the Nazi regime, his career accelerated. In August 1933 he became a consultant in the Saxon Ministry of Education. As such, he was instrumental in the dismissal of numerous professors who the new rulers no longer wanted to have at the universities. Erwin Jacobi , for example , who was only able to return to the University of Leipzig in 1946, was one of those dismissed . Lange became a professor in 1934 at the University of Breslau , which was to be transformed into a National Socialist shock troop university . From 1939 he was a professor at the University of Munich.

Lange was one of the founding members of the National Socialist Academy for German Law in 1933 . There he was chairman of the inheritance law committee, which also included his student Horst Bartholomeyczik . Through the academy, he propagated the plan for a new “ People's Code ” as a codification of National Socialist civil law. In the autumn of 1939, however, Lange left the academy after disagreements with the President of the Academy, Hans Frank .

Along with Carl Schmitt and others, Lange was involved in the National Socialist discussion about the self-designation of the National Socialist state as the National Socialist German constitutional state . Lange also belonged to the Kiel School of Nazi law and gave lectures in the Kitzeberg camp .

Life after 1945

With the end of the Nazi regime, Lange had to leave the university because of his National Socialist past. In the arbitration chamber proceedings , he was classified as a follower in 1948 , and in 1949 as "exonerated". As early as 1951, Lange was appointed professor at the University of Saarbrücken and two years later at the University of Würzburg . He stayed there until his retirement in 1967.

Publications (selection)

  • The causal element in the facts of the classical property tradition . Weicher, Leipzig 1930.
  • Liberalism, National Socialism and Civil Law. A lecture . Mohr, Tübingen 1933.
  • From the rule of law to the rule of law . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Mohr, Tübingen 1934 (lecture on November 19, 1934 to the Breslau district group of the Association of National Socialist German Lawyers).
  • From the old to the new law of obligations . Hanseatic Publishing House, Hamburg 1934.
  • The law of the will. Memorandum of the Inheritance Law Committee of the Academy for German Law . Mohr, Tübingen 1937 (= work reports of the Academy for German Law , No. 4).
  • Land, goods and money . In five volumes. Mohr, Tübingen 1937–1944.
  • The prohibition of professional practice in the Middle Ages. A contribution to the history of corporate criminal law . Böhlau, Weimar 1940 (also: Jena, legal and economic dissertation 1939).
  • Acquisition, securing and settlement of the inheritance. 4. Memorandum of the Inheritance Law Committee of the Academy for German Law. Mohr, Tübingen 1940 (= work reports of the Academy for German Law , No. 15).
  • The Development of the Science of Civil Law since 1933. A Recent History of Private Law . Mohr, Tübingen 1941.
  • BGB. General part. A study book . Beck, Munich / Berlin 1952, 17th edition 1980.
  • Textbook of Inheritance Law , Beck, Munich / Berlin 1962, 5th edition 2001.

Journal articles (selection)

  • The decline of the idea of ​​personality at the German university . In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung , 40th year, 1935, issue 7, columns 406–411.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Stolleis : The history of public law in Germany . Volume 3: Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies in the Republic and Dictatorship 1914–1945 . Beck, Munich 1999, p. 262.
  2. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Who was in German law . 20111129th version 32885.
  3. ↑ Michael Grüttner: Biographical Lexicon for the National Socialist Science Policy , Heidelberg 2004, p. 107.
  4. ↑ The decline of the personality thought at the German university . In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung , 40th year, 1935, issue 7, columns 406–411.
  5. ↑ a b Filippo Ranieri . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History , 2001, p. 853 ff.
  6. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 356.
  7. ^ Yearbook of the Academy for German Law , 1st year, 1933/34. Edited by Hans Frank. Schweitzer Verlag, Munich / Berlin / Leipzig, p. 255.
  8. ↑ Martin Maletzky: The right of inheritance of the tax authorities. Herbert Utz, Munich 2001, p. 227 (= Munich Legal Articles , Volume 21).
  9. ↑ Michael Grüttner: Biographical Lexicon for the National Socialist Science Policy , Heidelberg 2004, p. 107.
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, Carl Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1977
Place of death Starnberg