Hermann Weitnauer

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Hermann Weitnauer (born July 18, 1910 in Munich ; † September 9, 1999 ) was a German lawyer and university professor who dealt in particular with the Condominium Act .

Life

Weitenauer studied after the Abitur Law and graduated in 1932 with the first and 1935 with the second state exam from. 1934 took place its graduation to the doctor of law at William Laforet at the University of Würzburg with a thesis on the subject of state intervention in contracts . In 1935/36 he worked in the judicial service of Bavaria, in 1937 he worked in the law of obligations department in the Reich Ministry of Justice . Together with Werner Vogels and Ernst Ludwig Rexroth , he published the explanations of contractual aid and war settlement procedures for the ordinances of November 30, 1940 . From 1941 he did military service on the Eastern Front and was taken prisoner by the Soviets .

Returning in 1950, he took up a position in the Federal Ministry of Justice , in the course of which he was appointed Ministerialrat . In 1951, together with Carl Wirths, he published a first legal commentary on the Condominium Act (WEG) of March 15, 1951 with the title Law on Condominium and Permanent Housing Law of March 15, 1951 , the 9th edition of which appeared in 2005 and is now from Lothar Briesemeister is edited. From 1965 until his retirement in 1978, Weitnauer was a full professor of law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Weitnauer's other publications include Liability from Violations of Official Duties (1956), The London Debt Agreement and Its Execution (1956), Nuclear Liability Law in National and International Perspectives (1964), Mining and Public Transport Companies. Your relationship to each other according to d. AGB u. de lege ferenda. Legal opinion (1971), The protection of the weaker in civil law (1975), The performance in the Festschrift for Ernst von Caemmerer (1978)

On his 70th birthday in 1980, the commemorative publication Private Autonomy, Property and Responsibility was published by Horst Ehmann . In 1985 the Institute for Foreign and International Private and Commercial Law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg published the commemorative publication Unity in Diversity: Professor Dr. Hermann Weitnauer on his 75th birthday . In 1990 another Festschrift for him and Johannes Bärmann was finally published with the title Festschrift for Johannes Bärmann and Hermann Weitnauer , which was edited by Wolf-Rüdiger Bub .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Claudius Ficker et al. (Ed.): Festschrift for Ernst von Caemmerer on his 70th birthday. Mohr, Tübingen 1978, pp. 255-297 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Weitnauer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1999