Joachim Rückert

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Joachim Rückert (born August 16, 1945 in Pöttmes ) is a German legal scholar . He taught and researched as a professor of private law , legal history and legal philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Rückert grew up in Munich and Hanover and studied law, history and philosophy in Berlin , Tübingen and Munich as well as administrative sciences at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . Since his studies he has been a member of the Catholic student associations KAV Suevia Berlin and AV Guestfalia Tübingen .

After completing his doctorate and habilitation in Munich, Rückert received a Heisenberg scholarship and, from 1984, was a full professor of civil law and legal history at the University of Hanover . From 1993 to 1998 he held an endowed chair ( Volkswagen ) for contemporary legal history and civil law in Frankfurt am Main. From 1998 to 2010 he held the chair for modern legal history, contemporary legal history, civil law and legal philosophy. In 2014, the Estonian National University of Tartu (formerly Dorpat) awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2015 he was elected as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Rückert's academic interests are particularly in the field of legal history from the 18th to 20th centuries and its references to philosophy and economics, in particular the history and social history of basic normative terms such as "free", "social", "work", as well as in the law of obligations and in Methodology and Philosophy of Law. He is co-editor of the journal of the Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte (since 2001) and with Mathias Schmoeckel and Reinhard Zimmermann since 2003 the historical-critical commentary on the civil code .

Rückert's academic students include Lena Foljanty (Frankfurt am Main), Sibylle Hofer (Bern), Thorsten Keizer , Kenichi Moriya (Osaka), Peter Oestmann , Thomas Pierson (Gießen), Thiago Reis (São Paulo), Frank L. Schäfer and Ralf Seinecke (Frankfurt am Main). He supervised numerous third-party funded projects and more than 50 well-known printed doctorates.

Rückert is a member of the advisory board of the German Society for Research into Political Thought (DGEPD), since 1993 of the executive committee of the Graduate School for Legal History and then of the "International Max Planck Research School" (2000-2014), since 1999 of the "Working Group for Modern Social History eV" , 2000 of the "Frankfurter Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft", 2001–2016 chairman of the Frankfurt Legal Society, before 1989–1994 of the Legal Study Society in Hanover, since 2005 chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fritz Bauer Institute for Research into the History of the Holocaust / Frankfurt am Main.

Fonts (selection)

  • Farewell to injustice. On legal history after 1945 , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015.
  • Service and employment contract , in historical-critical commentary on the BGB, vol. 3, Mohr, Tübingen 2013, pp. 700–1231.
  • Selected essays. In two volumes , Keip, Stockstadt 2012.
  • Savigny studies , Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2011.
  • “Free and social” as a legal principle , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006.
  • Autonomy of the law from a legal historical perspective , Legal Study Society, Hanover 1988.
  • Idealism, jurisprudence and politics with Friedrich Carl von Savigny , Gremer, Ebelsbach 1984 (Munich, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1982).
  • August Ludwig Reyscher's life and legal theory. 1802–1880 , Schweitzer, Berlin 1974 (Munich, Univ., Jurist. Fac., Diss. 1972).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief information on Joachim Rückert. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Richard Weiskorn (Ed.): Complete directory of the CV , Bad Honnef 2015, p. 601.
  3. ↑ Joachim Rückert was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Tartu. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
  4. ^ Editor of the Savigny magazine. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
  5. ^ Editor of the historical-critical commentary on the BGB. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Directory of dissertations and habilitation. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
  7. ↑ The Management Board of the Frankfurt Jursitischen society. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
  8. ^ Scientific advisory board of the Fritz Bauer Institute. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rückert, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Poettmes