Heinrich Siber

Heinrich Siber (born April 10, 1870 in Ihleburg , † June 23, 1951 in Leipzig ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

The son of the government building officer Carl Siber and Mathilde Bethmann moved at a young age with his parents to Stralsund , where he attended the Sundisches Gymnasium . He then completed a law degree at the University of Zurich , the University of Munich , the University of Königsberg , the University of Berlin and the University of Leipzig . In Leipzig he passed his first state examination in 1892, became a trainee lawyer and obtained his doctorate in law in 1893 . In 1896 he became an assessor . In 1899 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in Leipzig. In 1901 he became an associate professor at the University of Erlangen and in 1903 a full professor.

In 1911 he returned to the Leipzig Faculty of Law as a professor of Roman law and German civil law. Due to the National Socialist occupation policy at universities, he was retired in 1935. After the Second World War, Siber offered his services to the Leipzig University again and officially taught here with the reopening of the Leipzig University on February 5, 1946 in his old office until the end of his life. Siber was in Leipzig 1915/16, 1921/22, 1929/30 and 1933–1935 Dean of the Faculty of Law and 1926/27 Rector of the Alma Mater . He was also a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and, since 1940, a corresponding member of the Prussian (later: German) Academy of Sciences in Berlin . In 1904 he married Marie Piper, the daughter of a Stralsund medical council.

Act

Siber was primarily a jurisprudential dogmatist. He shaped the dogmatics of civil law in monographs, essays and brief textbooks. His originality, his ability to see new things and to see connections made him forego any method template. But his mastery also disdained to achieve the result he wanted to achieve in the easy way of good faith jurisprudence. So he came to a just solution with the law itself, which he had mastered with virtuosity.

He also dealt with research into Roman constitutional law , but remained very dependent on Theodor Mommsen's preliminary work .

Works (selection)

• Compensation and set-off. 1899
• The legal lien of the landlord, lessor and restaurateur. 1900
• The legal obligation in the contractual relationship according to German law. 1903
• Passive legitimation in the rei vindicatio as a contribution to the teaching of active legitimation. Leipzig 1907
• The book law business according to Reich land registry law. 1909
• The question of the disposition to foreign law. In commemoration for R. Sohm., Munich 1915
• Litigation of the asset manager according to the German Civil Code. In a commemorative publication from the Leipzig Faculty of Law for A. Wach, Munich 1917
• Floor plan for lectures on German civil law. Five parts, Leipzig 1919–1921
• Basic features of Roman law for the lecture (Roman private law). 1928
• Interpretation and contestation of dispositions due to death. in: The RG practice in German legal life. Vol. 3,1929, p. 350 ff
• Floor plans for lectures on German civil law: inheritance law. 1928
• Outline of German civil law: law of obligations. 1931
• On the development of the Roman constitution of principles. Leipzig 1933
• Analogy, official law and retroactive effect in the criminal law of the Roman Free State. 1936
• Liability for estate debts according to current and future law. Berlin 1937
• The leadership of Augustus. Leipzig 1940
• Right to property and claims to return under the law of obligations from the standpoint of the legal system. Report to the committees for land and driving law of the ADR. In: Unerings Jb., Vol. 89 (1941), pp. 1-118;
• Roman constitutional law in historical development. 1952

literature

• Frank Behne: Heinrich Siber and the Roman constitutional law by Theodor Mommsen. A contribution to the history of Mommsen's reception in the 20th century. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 1999, ISBN 3-487-10910-7 . (Contributions to Classical Studies, Vol. 12.)
• Hermann A. Ludwig Degner: Who is it? Our contemporaries - contemporaries dictionary. Degner, Leipzig 1906, p. 959.
• Werner Schubert: Academy for German Law, 1933–1945. Walter de Gruyter, 1986, ISBN 311010671X .
• Obituary Heinrich Siber. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Böhlau, Vienna 1951.
• Martin Avenarius :  Siber, Heinrich Bethmann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 303-305 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Siber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinrich Siber in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Overview of Heinrich Siber's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1899 to summer semester 1914)

Remarks

1. ↑ Cf. Jochen Bleicken : The constitution of the Roman Republic . 3rd edition, Schöningh, Paderborn 1982, ISBN 3-506-99173-6 , p. 269: "a 'sliced' Mommsen".