Joachim Gernhuber

Joachim Gernhuber (born July 18, 1923 in Książ , Poland ; † July 17, 2018 in Bonn ) was a German legal scholar and professor of civil law , German legal history, commercial law and private law at the University of Tübingen .

Life

Joachim Gernhuber, born in Książ (German: Xions ) as the son of a pastor, studied law at the University of Jena . He had to interrupt his studies because he was drafted into the armed forces . After being seriously injured in the war, he was able to continue his studies during wartime and in 1944 he passed the first state examination in law at the University of Jena. In 1947 he was in Jena with the investigation "The interlocutory judgment in German civil procedure" to Dr. iur. PhD. In 1948, Gernhuber completed his legal training at the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court with the second state examination. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Bonn , where he completed his habilitation in 1951 with the study "The peace movement in Germany up to the Mainz Reichslandfrieden of 1235" .

In 1955 Gernhuber accepted a professorship at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1959 he moved to the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , where he held the chair for civil law, German legal history, commercial law and private law until his retirement in 1988. In Tübingen he lived in the villa built in 1929 by the architect Ernst Breitling on the corner of Waldhäuser Strasse and Im Schönblick. He was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Gernhuber is the father of the civil law professor Barbara Grunewald, who was born in 1951 .

Fonts

• The peace movement in Germany up to the Mainzer Reichslandfrieden of 1235 (= Bonn jurisprudential treatises. H. 44, ZDB -ID 502603-9 ). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1952.
• Civil Law. A systematic guide in 50 overviews . Mohr, Tübingen 1976, ISBN 3-16-637851-0 .
• The fulfillment and its surrogates as well as the extinction of the obligations for other reasons (= manual of the law of obligations in individual representations. Vol. 3). Mohr, Tübingen 1983, ISBN 3-16-644649-4 (2nd, revised edition, ibid 1994, ISBN 3-16-145976-8 ).
• The debt relationship. Justification and change, obligations and structures, third party effect (= manual of the law of obligations in individual representations. Vol. 8). Mohr, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-16-645497-7 .
• Family Law Textbook. Beck, Munich et al. 1964 (from the 4th, completely revised edition ibid 1994, ISBN 3-406-34755-X , with Dagmar Coester-Waltjen ; from the 5th, completely revised edition ibid 2006, as: Familienrecht. ISBN 3 -406-52594-6 ; 6th, completely revised edition, ibid 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59513-4 ).

literature

• Harm Peter Westermann : Joachim Gernhuber . In Stefan Grundmann , Karl Riesenhuber (Ed.): German-speaking civil law teachers of the 20th century in reports from their students. A story of ideas in individual representations. Vol. 1, de Gruyter Recht, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89949-456-3 , pp. 355-372.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Gernhuber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Joachim Gernhuber in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joachim Gernhuber's obituary , FAZ from July 19, 2018.
2. ↑ http://www.tagblatt.de/Home/nachrichten/tuebingen_artikel,-Unter-der-Tapete-ein-Fresco-von-Ernst-Maria-Fischer-_arid,304751.html .