Helmut Dau

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Helmut Dau (born September 30, 1926 in Düneberg ; † November 6, 2010 in Bad Bevensen ) was a German lawyer , legal librarian and bibliographer .

Life

Helmut Dau was born as the son of industrial clerk and department head Otto Dau (1895–1977) and his wife Alma Dau (1899–1965) in Düneberg. He was the latter of two children and the nephew of Herbert Dau . After the family moved to Leverkusen and served as an air force helper and soldier in World War II , he graduated from the Carl-Duisberg-Gymnasium in Leverkusen in October 1946 . Since he did not immediately succeed in getting a place at university, an apprenticeship as a bookseller followed, which he completed in 1948 with the assistant examination. The first years of work in Cologne and Düsseldorf bookstores followed. In 1950 he began his law studies at the University of Cologne , which he in 1954 with the state examination and in 1959 with the promotion of Dr. jur. completed. In 1958 he married Ilse Lehmann. With her he had three children (Burkard, Anke and Volkmar).

In the years 1955-64 he worked as a bookseller and lawyer for the publishing houses Dr. Otto Schmidt , Carl Heymann and CF Müller . Often he was also responsible for the publisher's preparation of legal commemorative publications . So the idea was obvious to him to publish a previously unavailable bibliography of juridical commemorative publications and articles. The first volume appeared in 1962.

He began in 1964 as a legal specialist at the State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage , Berlin Office, and moved with the family to Berlin , where he lived until 1985. In 1969 he was appointed library councilor, in 1971 he was promoted to library senior councilor and in 1973 to library director. Under his leadership, the special collection area law of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage was expanded in a targeted manner. - He was one of the founders of the Association for Legal Library and Documentation ( AjBD ). 1974–1976 he was chairman and then deputy chairman for two years. - In 1978 he took over the management of the scientific service (library and documentation) of the Federal Administrative Court in Berlin. He also devoted himself with great interest to the development of juris , the legal information system for the Federal Republic of Germany. At the end of 1988 he retired.

After the death of his first wife in 1982, he married Christel Gottschalk in 1986, with whom he moved to Hitzacker an der Elbe in 1989 . In the following years he devoted himself to writing several other books he most part in the self-published publications. The book The Jeetzel tells is an exception . In 2008 his second wife died. He moved to a retirement home in Bad Bevensen , where he died on November 6, 2010 at the age of 84. Dau is buried in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin.

Fonts

  • Copyright reform and the Basic Law. The compatibility of the "restrictions on the right of exploitation" and the "statutory rights of use" according to the draft of a copyright law of March 15, 1954 with the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany of May 23, 1949. Diss. Jur. Cologne 1959.
  • Bibliography of juridical commemorative publications and articles. Germany, Switzerland, Austria. [From 1977 also English title] Bibliography of legal Festschriften. Titles and contents. Germany, Switzerland, Austria. Volume 0: 1864/1944 ff. - [1945/61] CF Müller, Karlsruhe; [1962/66. 1967/74] Runge in Komm., Bielefeld; [1864/1944. 1975 / 79-1994 / 56] Berlin-Verlag Spitz, Berlin; [1997/99] Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag (BWV), Berlin 1962 ff, ISSN  0931-7686 .
  • [Together with Alfred Kritzer] Specialist literature for business and economists. Study and practice. Mayr, Würzburg 1962.
  • Catalog of holdings on Anglo-American law. Edited in the legal department. Editor-in-chief: Helmut Dau, Joachim Schwietzke. State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-88053-003-3 .
  • Directory of legal journals and series (VRZS) in selected libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany including Berlin (West). Union list of legal serials in selected libraries of the Federal Republic of Germany including Berlin (West). At the same time, addendum to the "Journal of Legal Max Planck Institutes (ZVJM)". Edited by the State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin. Edited in the legal department. Editors: Helmut Dau, Eleonore Müller-Zahrt, Raimund-Ekkehard Walter. Saur, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-598-07079-9 .
  • Small fonts from 2002-2007. Self-published.
  • Friedrich - A fairy tale (not only for children) / The lost hare - or: The lost son. A fairy tale - not just for children. In: Hundreds of years ago. Stories and poems for children big and small. Edited by Rita G. Fischer. Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-8301-0989-1 , pp. 32–34, 35–38. (Authors' workshop. 98.)
  • The Jeetzel tells. RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-8301-9883-3 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Only after the publication of volumes 1-3 of the bibliography did Dau meet the publisher Arno Spitz, who made it possible for him to publish further volumes in Berlin-Verlag Spitz.
  2. ↑ The head office of this library was still in Marburg at that time.
  3. ^ Raimund-Ekkehard Walter (Daus successor): The special collection area law at the State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage: Structure and Development. In: In the service of law and legal literature. Festschrift for Helmut Dau. Pp. 335-346. - From 1969 to 1977, Dau was a part-time editor of the communications of the State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage.
  4. ^ Ralph Lansky: Handbook of Legal Libraries. German Library Institute, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-87068-437-2 , pp. 273 and 302.
  5. ↑ Henriette Althoff (Dau's successor): Dr. Retired Helmut Dau. In: Law, Library, Documentation 19 (1989), ISSN  0935-2538 , pp. 102-103.
  6. ↑ So far (2011) eleven volumes of this bibliography have been published, namely volumes 0-10. In some cases, the volume was subsequently counted by Berlin-Verlag. Reprints of volumes 1-3 were published by Berlin-Verlag in 1982. Volumes 8 and 9 are also available on CD-ROM, ZDB -ID 2552118-4 . Reporting period and year of publication of the individual volumes: [0:] 1864/1944 (1984); [1:] 1945/61 (1962); [2:] 1962/66 (1967); [3:] 1967/74 (1977); [4:] 1975/79 (1981); 5: 1980/84 (1987); 6: 1985/87 (1989); 7: 1988/90 (1992); 8: 1991/93 (1995); 9: 1994/96 (1998); 10: 1997/99 (2006). The first ten volumes (0-9) are by Helmut Dau from 1962–1998. In Volume 0 pp. 11–19 there are introductory considerations by Dau: Die juristische Festschrift. Reflections and critical comments on an old and modern form of literature from a library perspective. - Volume 10, published in 2006, was edited by Dietrich Pannier and Anja Aulich and also contains a Festschriftregister 1864–1999, ISBN 3-8305-0229-X .
  7. ↑ This is the 1st edition. Most recently, a fourth edition in three volumes was published by KG Saur Verlag (now: De Gruyter Saur) in 2000 , ISBN 978-3-598-11427-4 . So that shows are discontinued.
  8. ↑ For children transmitted by Helmut Dau. With drawings by Julia Sindermann. The “ Jeetzel ” (called “Jeetze” in the headwaters in Saxony-Anhalt) is a river that flows into the Elbe near Hitzacker (Lower Saxony).
  9. ↑ Biographisches P. 9-14, Bibliographie P. 347-356. Contents.
personal data
SURNAME Dau, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Düneberg (today Geesthacht )
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2010
Place of death Bad Bevensen