Johannes Mittelstaedt

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Johannes Mittelstaedt (born January 3, 1869 in Altona , † January 25, 1931 in Leipzig ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Johannes Mittelstaedt was the son of the Reich judge Otto Mittelstaedt . After attending school in Hamburg and Leipzig, studying law at the universities of Berlin, Lausanne and Leipzig, and becoming a Dr. jur. had received his doctorate, he entered the Saxon judicial service. He worked as a young district judge when the Leipzig bank collapsed . In 1902 he became a lawyer and practiced as a lawyer at the Leipzig Regional Court together with lawyer Curt Hillig . In 1910 he was admitted to the bar at the Reichsgericht . Here he was involved in processes, particularly in the fields of industrial property rights and copyright . In 1926, for the writers Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Gerhart Hauptmann, he achieved the first recognition of the copyright broadcasting right for authors of literary works by the Reichsgericht.

After the end of the First World War , the German government sent him as an arbitrator in the mixed Franco-German arbitration tribunal in Paris, where he was awarded the title of Privy Councilor of Justice . In 1928, as a delegate of the German Reich, he represented German interests at the Rome Conference on the revision of the Bern Convention on the Protection of Works of Literature and Art .

family

He was married to Sophie von Bomhard (1873-1946), daughter of the Senate President at the Reichsgericht Ernst von Bomhard . His son Otto Mittelstaedt (1902–1981) worked in the twenties at the University of Leipzig as an employee and doctoral student of the physicist August Karolus in his research on the development of television; In 1933 he became a member and later chairman of the board of the Bibliographisches Institut publishing house . The physicist Peter Mittelstaedt (1929–2014) was his grandson.

Publications (selection)

  • The legal nature of capital insurance in the event of death, legal dissertation, Leipzig 1891.
  • The publishing right. Comment. Leipzig 1901 (together with Dr. Curt Hillig).
  • The right of the inventor. In: Festschrift for the University of Leipzig, Leipzig 1909, p. 225.
  • Protection of the Performing Arts, Intellectual Property and Copyright Law, 1909, p. 34.
  • Droit moral in German copyright law, industrial property rights and copyright law, 1913, p. 84.
  • The Roman Conference on the Revision of the Bern Convention, Juristic Weekly 1928, p. 2057.
  • The "droit moral" according to the resolutions of the Roman Copyright Conference of 1928, Intellectual Property and Copyright Law 1930, p. 43.

literature

  • Obituaries: M. Mintz, industrial property rights and copyright, 1931, p. 173, W. Pinzger, brand protection and competition, 1931, p. 121–122, as well as publisher and editor, UFITA archive for copyright, film and theater law, 4 (1931), p. 1.
  • Hans-Peter Hillig, The Broadcasting Judgment of the Reichsgericht and its Significance for Copyright, UFITA 2016 / I, pp. 179–188

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Judgments of the Reichsgericht dated May 12, 1926 in RGZ 113, 413 = industrial property rights and copyright 1926, pp. 343-349
personal data
SURNAME Mittelstaedt, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1931
Place of death Leipzig