Hermann Krause (legal historian)

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Hermann Krause as a student. Photograph from 1921

Hermann Krause (born September 27, 1902 in Schwerin , † July 31, 1991 in Heidelberg ) was a German legal historian and legal scholar .

The son of a Mecklenburg ministerial councilor studied history and law in Heidelberg and Rostock . In Heidelberg, Krause joined the Leonensia student union in the summer semester of 1921 . His academic teachers were Karl Hampe , Hermann Oncken , Gerhard Anschütz , Friedrich Endemann and Hans Fehr . In 1927 Krause received his doctorate in Rostock with the work suggested by Hans Spangenberg and supervised by Hans Erich Feine on a topic on the constitutional history of Mecklenburg in the second half of the 16th century. The dissertation became the basic work for the Mecklenburg estate constitution. At the Handelshochschule Berlin he was assistant to Paul Gieseke . There he completed his habilitation in the subjects of private law in 1931 , especially civil and commercial law , civil procedural law and legal history . In 1934 he became an adjunct professor in Berlin . In 1935 he became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . In 1936 he succeeded Heinrich Mitteis as professor of German legal history, civil law and commercial and economic law in Heidelberg. In 1942 he became a member of the local academy and, after a break of several years, again in 1975.

From 1948 to 1950 he was a judge at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court . In 1950 he returned to the Mannheim Business School as a professor of commercial and business law. Since 1952 he was also an honorary professor in Heidelberg. In 1955 he was appointed full professor as successor to Mitteis at the University of Munich for German legal history, German private law and German civil law. In 1957 he became dean of the Munich faculty. In 1958 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Krause was appointed to the central management of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) in 1959 . In 1965 Krause became a member of the historical commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1970 he retired. As an academic teacher, he supervised 57 doctorates and two legal history habilitations. After the death of President Herbert Grundmann , Krause was Managing President of MGH from April 1970 to November 1971. The legal form of the MGH, as a corporation under public law , goes back to Hermann Krause. His medieval study of imperial law and reception gained great importance in jurisprudence .

On his 70th birthday he was honored with a festschrift. For his 85th birthday, a Germanistic volume (104/1987) was dedicated to him by the magazine of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Since 1976 he lived in Heidelberg. The University of Mannheim awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1983 .

Fonts

  • Imperial law and reception (= treatises of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. 1952.1). Winter, Heidelberg 1952.
  • The historical development of arbitration in Germany. Heymann, Berlin 1930.
  • System of the state constitution of Mecklenburg in the second half of the 16th century (= Rostocker Abhandlungen. Volume 2). Hinstorff, Rostock 1927.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Björn Bertram:  Hermann Krause. Life and work of a German legal scholar in the upheavals of the 20th century. Kiel 2018, pp. 34–37.
  2. ^ Hermann Krause: System of the state constitution of Mecklenburg in the second half of the 16th century. Rostock 1927.
  3. ↑ Peter Landau: Hermann Krause September 27, 1902 - July 31, 1991. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Yearbook 1991, Munich 1992, pp. 239–244, here: p. 239.
  4. ↑ Peter Landau: Hermann Krause September 27, 1902 - July 31, 1991. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Yearbook 1991, Munich 1992, pp. 239–244, here: p. 240.
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian and legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1991
Place of death Heidelberg