Jürgen AE Meyer

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Jürgen Adolf Ernst Meyer (born October 20, 1937 in Memel ; † October 21, 1989 in Bremen ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

After Germans had fled and were expelled from Central and Eastern Europe in 1945–1950 , Meyer, his mother and grandparents were accepted as refugees in Schleswig-Holstein in the summer of 1945 . His father, a Memel merchant, had died in World War II . In the difficult post-war period in Germany , his mother made it possible for him to attend the humanistic grammar school in Rendsburg . He chose the languages Latin , Greek and Hebrew . His excellent rhetorical talent was already noticed at school. After graduating from high school in 1957, he studied law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . Since 1958 a member of the Kiel Corps Palaiomarchia-Masovia and an excellent senior and consenior , he was a committed and enthusiastic corps student all his life . Even during his studies he was concerned with the term "justice". After two semesters at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , he passed the First State Examination in 1962 at the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court . During his legal clerkship in Schleswig-Holstein, he wrote his doctoral thesis, with which he was awarded a Dr. iur. received his doctorate .

After passing the Second State Examination in Law at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in 1966 , he became a research assistant at the Institute for Labor and Social Law at the CAU. When the chair holder Alfred Söllner accepted the call to the Justus Liebig University in Gießen in 1970, Meyer and his corps brother Heiko Menke followed him. With his own eloquence , Meyer supported the reformist goals of the 1968 movement in the convention and on other occasions . In 1974 he was supported by the University of Bremen as a professor of labor law , social law and legal history called. Here he continued his work in university politics. With great dedication, he promoted the experiment of one-stage legal training . From 1982 to 1984 he was vice rector of the university. As such, he was instrumental in drafting the cooperation agreement with the University of Pune in India. At the same time he was a lawyer in Bremen.

“Jürgen Meyer's commitment to the“ troubled and burdened ”on the one hand and to education and knowledge transfer on the other hand was by no means limited to the academic field. He participated in numerous seminars of the Bremen Chamber of Employees for employees, the unemployed and the disabled, and that wasn't enough; Beyond the seminars, he made himself available to the participants with advice and action - in the form of legal representation before labor and social courts. Where - and because - he recognized injustice, he got involved and motivated those affected to assert their individual and collective interests. "

- R. Wahsner, DA legs

Suffering from time and soul, he fell ill with alcohol . He died of bleeding esophageal varices the day after his 52nd birthday . He left behind his second wife Gisela, whom he married a year before his death, and a stepson. He is buried in the Riensberg cemetery . The grave speech held his Rendsburg school friend and fellow student, the labor lawyer Jörn-Heiko Körnich.

Works

  • Commercial agency law . Forkel, Stuttgart / Wiesbaden 1978, ISBN 3-7719-6136-X .
  • Social Court Protocols . Luchterhand, Neuwied 1981, ISBN 3-472-08020-5 (= Democracy and the Rule of Law , Volume 49).

literature

  • Roderich Wahsner, Dieter A. legs: Jürgen AE Meyer - an after-call . Democracy and Law 1/1990

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Dr. iur. Heiko Menke: Jürgen Meyer . Corpszeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 86 (1990), p. 2721
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 114/96
  3. ↑ Dissertation: "The origin and development of the privilege of freedom from arrest and molestation and the privilege of freedom of speech of the English parliament up to the year 1688".
  4. ↑ Menke was later a labor judge in Bremerhaven
  5. ↑ Central archive of the University of Bremen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zentralarchiv.uni-bremen.de  
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Jürgen AE
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Jürgen Adolf Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Memel
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1989
Place of death Bremen