Hermann Dilcher

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Hermann Dilcher (born November 24, 1927 in Frankfurt-Höchst ; † December 8, 1996 in Bochum ) was a German legal scholar , legal historian and university professor.

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Dilcher attended the Hoechst Gymnasium from 1938 to 1946 (with an interruption due to military service from autumn 1944) as the son of a war disabled postal worker. From the winter semester of 1948/49 he studied law at the University of Frankfurt am Main . Before that, he had attended lectures on philosophy, history and classical philology as a guest auditor for a few semesters. Dilcher finished his law studies in June 1952 with the first state examination in law. He then worked as a research assistant at the Frankfurt Institute for Roman Law and Reception History, headed by Helmut Coing . In Frankfurt, Dilcher received his doctorate under Gerhard Schiedermair in November 1953. iur. He then completed his legal clerkship in Hessen and also worked as a research assistant at the above-mentioned institute. In 1957 he passed his second state examination. In February 1960 Dilcher completed his habilitation in Frankfurt and received the venia legendi for the subjects Roman law, civil law and civil procedure law.

He then worked as a lecturer at the University of Frankfurt am Main before, in 1962, after substituting a chair at the Universities of Saarbrücken and Münster, he accepted a call from the University of Kiel to a full chair in civil law. In the winter semester of 1965/66 he left Kiel again to take up a full professorship at the chair for modern legal history and civil law at the University of Bochum . There he taught and researched until his retirement in 1993. Dirk Olzen and Werner Schubert completed their habilitation at Dilcher . According to his own statements, he also supervised 32 doctorates.

Together with Paul Mikat and Sven Erik Wunner , he established the subject of legal history at the newly founded University of Bochum. Dilcher's research focus was initially primarily on the history of classical Roman law at the time of its creation and in the Middle Ages; later he shifted to the rule of the Normans and Hohenstaufen in southern Italy in the 12th and 13th centuries. He always put this in relation to the contemporary events of European unification . Due to his habilitation thesis (see below), he was considered one of the few real experts on medieval legal sources.

Works (selection)

  • The entry into effect according to § 894 ZPO issued declaration of intent . University Press, Frankfurt am Main 1953 (dissertation).
  • The Theory of Dysfunction in Glossators, Commentators, and Canonists . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1960 (habilitation thesis).
  • The Sicilian legislation of Emperor Frederick II: Sources of the Melfi Constitutions and their short stories . Böhlau, Cologne 1975.
  • Property law in programmed form . 5th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3-11-012467-5 .

literature

  • Josef König: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Hermann Dilcher: academic commemoration on December 8, 1997 . University Press, Bochum 1998.
  • Obituary by Werner Schubert in: ZRG 1999, pp. 653–659.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schubert, ZRG 1999, p. 654.
  2. ↑ Schubert, ZRG 1999, p. 656.
personal data
SURNAME Dilcher, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, legal historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt-Höchst
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1996
Place of death Bochum