Heinz Hübner (legal scholar)

Heinz Hübner (born November 7, 1914 in Wohlau , Province of Silesia , † February 28, 2006 in Hürth ) was a German legal scholar. He was the first elected German rector of Saarland University .

Life

Hübner studied law at the University of Breslau and, after military service and military service, at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen . In 1948 he was with the work The Praefectus Aegypti of Diocletian until the end of Roman rule doctorate . He completed his habilitation in 1954 on the subject of Loss of Rights in Furniture Law .

Heinz Hübner taught civil law and Roman law at Saarland University in Saarbrücken from 1955 to 1960.

From 1956 to 1958, Hübner was the first elected German rector of Saarland University after the founding rector Jean Barriol (1948–1950) from Nancy in France and the German scholar Joseph-François Angelloz (1950–1956) from Savoy .

During Hübner's tenure, the transition from the French to the German university system took place and the university was then restructured. He was also involved in linking the university with the federal structures of the Federal Republic and managed to transfer it to a state university. To this end, Huebner developed a new university law, which was the first German university to have student participation.

In 1960, Hübner moved to Cologne University as a full professor of civil law , commercial law and Roman law . On his initiative, the Institute for the Modern History of Private Law was founded in 1961, and he became its director. From 1963 to 1965 he was co-director of the Institute for Roman Law. Together with Klaus Stern , Hans Brack and Dietrich Oehler , he was also one of the founding directors of the Institute for Broadcasting Law.

In 1963/64, Hübner was Dean of the Faculty of Law. In a difficult time in terms of university politics, he held the post of rector of the University of Cologne between 1968 and 1970. He retired in 1983. In his rectorate he tried not to let the dialogue with the rebelling students tear off. The “68ers” in Cologne were certainly less conflictual than elsewhere. However, the planned cooperation with the self-administration and the students of the student village Efferen , next to which he lived, did not materialize.

Heinz Hübner's main research area was the dogmatics of private law, which he interpreted in particular from its historical development from Roman law to modern times.

He died on February 28, 2006 at the age of 91 in Cologne. He was buried in the cemetery where he lived in Efferen in the city of Hürth , where he had lived for four decades.

Awards

• 1978 appointment to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences
• 1997 University Medal from the University of Cologne

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Hübner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait of Hübner on the homepage of the University of Cologne (accessed on January 21, 2008)
• Obituary for Heinz Hübner (idw from March 7, 2006)
• Heinz Hübner on Saarland biographies
• Klaus Luig, Heinz Hübner - The scientific work; Christoph Becker, Heinz Hübner pater familias - memories of a student; Hartmut Schiedermair, Heinz Hübner - A life for the university (pdf) in: Association for the Promotion of Law (publisher), Faculty Review Summer Semester 2007, there pages 49–56, 57–62 and 63–73. (accessed on January 21, 2008; 495 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roman law in Cologne on uni-koeln.de; accessed on December 29, 2014
2. ↑ Professor Dr. Heinz Huebner
3. ↑ Christoph Becker : Obituary for Heinz Hübner , in: Association for the Promotion of Law (Ed.), Faculty Review Summer Semester 2006, p. 101 f., ZDB -ID 2214979-X