Hermann Hahlo

Hermann Hahlo , later Herman Robert "Bobby" Hahlo , (born August 3, 1905 in New York , † September 22, 1985 presumably in Exeter ) was a German and Anglo-Saxon lawyer.

Life

After his birth, the family returned to Germany in 1907. In Berlin he attended high school from 1911 to 1923. Then studied law until 1927. In 1927 he passed the first and in 1930 the second state examination. In April 1930 he received his doctorate from the University of Halle. In 1931 he was admitted to the bar in Potsdam and took over a prosperous law firm. He married that same year. His license was withdrawn in June 1933 because he was of Jewish origin. In August 1933 he emigrated with his wife Hanna to London and in 1934 to South Africa. 1935-36 he studied again Jura at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg . After taking the exam, he worked as a lawyer again. In 1939 he became an assistant at the Witwatersrand University and in 1946 a professor. At the same time he became dean there and remained so until 1968. In 1968 he moved to McGill University in Montreal as head of the Institute of Comparative and Foreign Law. He was visiting professor in Edinburgh , Toronto , Siena and Christchurch . In 1983 he moved to the UK to live with his two children.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lesley Dingle, Daniel Bates: Professor Sir Bob Hepple , on the University of Cambridge webpage, accessed November 18, 2010.

literature

Ellison Kahn: "In Memoriam: Herman Robert Hahlo", South African Law Journal, Volume 102 (1985), pp. 573ff.

source

Federal Bar Association (Ed.): "Lawyer without Law - Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Germany after 1933", Berlin 2007, p. 183.