Hubert Dutch

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Hubert Niederländer (born February 10, 1921 in Ormesheim (Saar); † November 14, 1991 ) was a German lawyer. He was professor of civil law and from 1971 to 1979 rector of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

biography

Dutch came from a working class family. During the war (1939/40) and after the Second World War in 1946/47 he studied law and economics in Munich and Heidelberg. He received his doctorate in 1948. After his habilitation in 1951, he was initially a private lecturer at the University of Heidelberg until he was appointed associate professor at the University of Graz . In 1956 he received a chair for civil and Roman law in Heidelberg. He was director of the Institute for Historical Law and the Institute for Comparative and International Private and Business Law.

Rectorate

The student movement led to particularly bitter conflicts in Heidelberg in the 1960s and 1970s. The Dutch responded hard to massive disruptions in teaching. At times, the university's lectures came to a standstill.

The Dutch were involved in the conservative Association of Freedom of Science and were seen as the spokesman for the conservative professors in Heidelberg. After the disputes escalated and the left-liberal “reform rector ” Rolf Rendtorff resigned, he was elected rector by the university's great senate on December 19, 1972. The election took place under police protection in Heidelberg City Hall after the previous session was blown up by students. The Dutch described it as his priority task "to counter terrorism with determination and to make the line between right and wrong visible again" . In accordance with this maxim, he introduced a new hard course and ensured that students who took part in strikes, lecture breaks and institute occupations were prosecuted and expelled from the courts . Towards the end of his term in office in 1978, for example, he advocated tough crackdowns and maintained criminal charges for a series of strikes at the Mathematical Institute when almost all professors in the Mathematics Faculty wanted to withdraw their own charges. The hard line initially exacerbated the disputes, in 1973 the rectorate was filled, but over the years the assertiveness of the students, who were also divided by political trenches between the various political factions, was worn down.

Fonts

  • The development of the furtum and its etymological derivations, 1948 (dissertation)
  • Liability for enrichment in classical Roman law, Weimar 1953

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munzinger's archive
  2. ^ Heidelberger Geschichtsverein, chronological table of Heidelberg history from 1965
  3. ↑ Klaus-Peter Schroeder , A University for and by Jurists: the Heidelberg Law Faculty in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Tübingen 2010, p. 704
  4. ^ Ruprecht, Heidelberger Studentenzeitung, issue 37
personal data
SURNAME Dutchman, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and rector
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Ormesheim
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1991