Julius Magnus

Stumbling stone at the house, Meerscheidtstrasse 13, in Berlin-Westend

Julius Magnus (born September 6, 1867 in Berlin ; † May 15, 1944 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a German lawyer and judicial advisor specializing in the field of industrial property rights and international law.

Life

Magnus was a lawyer in Berlin from 1898 and was one of the most famous Berlin lawyers of his time. In 1914 he was appointed to the judiciary. From 1915 he was a board member of the Berlin Lawyers' Association and from 1919 to 1922 its first chairman. In addition, he was chairman of the international committee and the foreign group of the German Lawyers' Association and a member of the board of the German Society for International Law.

He was editor of various publications:

1907 to 1914 editor of the publications of the patent office and court decisions in patent, sample and trademark matters in the German Reich and Austria
1925 to 1933 editor of the legal weekly journal Berlin
1926 editor of the tables on international law
1928 to 1932 co-editor of the Archive for Copyright, Film and Theater Law (UFITA)
1929 co-editor of the ( Schlegelberger ) comparative law dictionary for civil and commercial law .

In recognition of his work as editor, the universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main each awarded him honorary doctorates.

From 1930 on he was a lecturer for copyright and patent law at the University of Berlin until his teaching assignment was withdrawn in September 1933 as a result of the National Socialists ' professional civil servants' law. In 1938 his legal license was withdrawn.

He fled to Amsterdam from the Nazis in 1939 . However, he could not escape their access and after his internment in the Westerbork transit camp in the summer of 1943, he came to the Theresienstadt ghetto via the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he died of starvation and exhaustion in 1944.

On May 19, 2016 , a stumbling block was laid in front of his former residence, Berlin-Westend , Meerscheidtstrasse 13 .

Works (selection)

German trademark law , 1925
The legal profession in the various countries , 1928
The world's highest courts 1929

literature

Horst Göppinger : Jurists of Jewish descent in the “Third Reich”. Disenfranchisement and persecution . 2nd Edition. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-33902-6 , pp. 253, 374, 381 f.
Horst Göppinger: Magnus, Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 674 f. ( Digitized version ).
Max Hachenburg : Julius Magnus , in: NJW 1949, p. 402.
Eduard Danny Hirsch-Ballin, in: GRUR 1948, p. 169.

Web links

Commons : Julius Magnus - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Julius Magnus in the catalog of the German National Library
Short biography on Forum Rechtsanwaltsgeschichte; sighted: January 3rd, 2009
Article by Hachenburg in NJW (PDF; 421 kB) accessed on March 3, 2013

Individual evidence

↑ Max Friedlaender : The memoirs of the lawyer Max Friedlaender at the Federal Bar Association, p. 150f. The newspaper Aufbau has shortened and printed an obituary written by Friedlaender.

personal data
SURNAME	Magnus, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	May 15, 1944
Place of death	Theresienstadt concentration camp

[1] Max Friedlaender : The memoirs of the lawyer Max Friedlaender at the Federal Bar Association, p. 150f. The newspaper Aufbau has shortened and printed an obituary written by Friedlaender.