Herbert Meyer (lawyer)

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Herbert Oskar Meyer (born February 10, 1875 in Breslau ; † March 6, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German legal scholar and legal historian .

Life

Herbert Meyer was born as the son of the physicist Oskar Emil Meyer and Antonie Stosch, his younger brothers were the historian Arnold Oskar Meyer (1877–1944) and the geologist Oskar Erich Meyer (1883–1939). His father taught as a professor at the University of Wroclaw .

Herbert Meyer studied Germanic philology at the universities in Strasbourg and Breslau between 1893 and 1899 . In Breslau from 1895 he concentrated on law, where he received his doctorate on March 12, 1900, shortly after the trainee exam. After his habilitation on February 7, 1903, he was a private lecturer in German law in Breslau, then moved from 1904 to 1906 as an associate professor at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

On October 1, 1906 Meyer returned to Breslau as a full professor. From 1918 he taught at the Georg August University in Göttingen , where he was rector from 1929–1930. In 1937 he followed an appointment to Berlin. In 1921 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1930 he was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1933 he was one of the founding members of the National Socialist Academy for German Law by Hans Franks . In 1934 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Meyer had been married to Toni Schauenburg since 1904; the marriage remained childless.

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Even before his habilitation on the history of lien , Meyer , who specializes in legal history , had submitted an important work on Germanic law relating to the prosecution of vehicles in 1902 . With his results, which he expanded again and again, he also influenced the legal dogmatics of the applicable law.

In the second phase of his work, Meyer went back to his dissertation topic and worked increasingly on family law . He was particularly concerned with mother law and the relationship between Friedelehe and Muntehe .

The value of Meyer's work from the last decade of his life is considered to be impaired by his turn to National Socialism , which is attributed to his “longing for a 'true people's community'” ( Gerhard Grill ).

Works

  • Law and nationality . Weimar: Böhlau, 1933.
  • The hand painting as a court symbol of the free sex among the Germanic peoples: Investigations into ancestral graves, ancestral farms, nobility, etc. Certificate (research on German law); Vol. 1, Issue 1 of the publications of the Academy for German Law, Group 5: Legal History. Weimar: Böhlau, 1934.
  • The Mühlhausen Imperial Law Book from the beginning of the 13th century: Germany's oldest legal book based on ancient medieval manuscripts, published, introduced and translated . second edition. Weimar: Böhlaus successor, 1934.
  • Race and law among the Teutons and Indo-Europeans (research on German law); Vol. 2, Issue 3 of the publications of the Academy for German Law, Group 5: Legal History. Weimar: Böhlau, 1937.
  • Marriage and conception of marriage by the Teutons . Weimar: Böhlau, 1940.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Gerhard Grill:  Meyer, Herbert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 307 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 167.
  3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Herbert Meyer. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 7, 2015 .
  4. ^ Yearbook of the Academy for German Law, 1st year 1933/34. Edited by Hans Frank. (Munich, Berlin, Leipzig: Schweitzer Verlag), p. 255
  5. ^ Members of the SAW: Herbert Meyer. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 16, 2016 .
  6. ↑ See Hans Hattenhauer: The importance of the peace and land peace for legislation in Germany . Marburg, 1958/60, p. IX.

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Herbert Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1941
Place of death Berlin