Hermann Nehlsen
Hermann Nehlsen (born August 15, 1936 in Papenburg ) is a German lawyer and legal historian .
Life
Nehlsen studied law in Hamburg , Innsbruck and Freiburg im Breisgau . After passing the first state examination in law, he was awarded a Dr. jur. doctoral thesis on the question of the class origin of the patriciate and the emergence of large citizen fortunes, illustrated using the example of the Friborg patrician family Snewlin .
The habilitation took place in Göttingen in the summer of 1971 with an examination of Germanic and Roman law in the Germanic legal records, worked out using the example of the legal and social position of slaves in the Germanic tribes in late antiquity and in the early Middle Ages. After a brief activity as a private lecturer , he took over the chair for German legal history, German private law and civil law at the law faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1973 .
One of the work of Nehlsen is the investigation of the topicality and effectiveness of the Leges Barbarorum on the basis of late antique and early medieval documents. Until his retirement on September 30, 2004, he was a member of the board of directors of the Leopold Wenger Institute for Legal History, whereby his activities within the institute focused on the Department of German and Bavarian Legal History. An anthology "Investigations on Bavarian Legal History" is in print.
His research interests in the field of legal history include the history of late antique and early medieval sources of law, the influence of the Old and New Testaments on legal development in the early Middle Ages, the emergence of public criminal law, late antique and medieval class history, legal development under National Socialism, questions of inheritance law in the aftermath of private princely law .
In the area of civil law, Nehlsen works as an expert in inheritance proceedings.
From 1990 to 2009 Nehlsen was Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of the Kester Haeusler Foundation , Fürstenfeldbruck, which promotes science, research and culture . Legal projects were funded by this foundation, including a. an extensive library of GDR law was donated to the Leopold-Wenger Institute for Legal History - established by the Kester-Haeusler Foundation under the leadership of Nehlsen .
As a board member, Nehlsen continued to oversee the Emanuel and Henrik Moór Foundation, which was committed to the memory of the composer Emanuel Moór (1863–1931) and his brother, the painter Henrik Moór (1876–1940). At the same time, Nehlsen acts as a board member of the Anita Moór Foundation established by the daughter Henrik Moórs. From 1995 to 2001 Nehlsen was director of the Weimar German Schiller Foundation from 1859.
Because of his services to this foundation, Nehlsen was made an honorary senator in 2000.
Hermann Nehlsen was married to the Freiburg legal historian Karin Nehlsen-von Stryk .
Honors
In 2002 Nehlsen was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . In 2010 Nehlsen was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class.
On his 70th birthday, Nehlsen was given the commemorative publication “From the Leges Barbarorum to the ius barbarum of National Socialism” published by his students - Hans-Georg Hermann , Thomas Gutmann , Joachim Rückert , Mathias Schmoeckel , Harald Siems .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Nehlsen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hermann Nehlsen on the website of the University of Munich
- Publications by Hermann Nehlsen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Legal historian Nehlsen awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class , accessed on August 18, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nehlsen, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and legal historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Papenburg |