Julius von Gierke

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Julius von Gierke (born March 5, 1875 in Breslau as Julius Karl Otto Gierke , † August 2, 1960 in Göttingen ) was a German legal scholar who primarily dealt with commercial and insurance law.

Life

Julius Gierke was the son of the later ennobled legal historian Otto Gierke and his wife Lili, daughter of the publisher Karl Friedrich Loening . After attending grammar school in Breslau and the Knight's Academy in Dom Brandenburg , he studied law at the University of Heidelberg from 1894 , where he joined the Allemannia fraternity in 1894 , and from 1896 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin law . After receiving his doctorate in Berlin in 1898 , he completed his habilitation in civil law at the University of Göttingen in 1901 .

After working as a private lecturer in Göttingen, he accepted an appointment as an associate professor at the University of Königsberg (successor to Rudolf His ) in 1904 . Four years later he was given a full professorship there and was rector of the university in 1916/17. From 1919 he taught at the University of Halle (successor to Paul Rehme ) and finally moved to Göttingen in 1925 (successor to Rudolf Müller-Erzbach ).

Julius von Gierke was considered to be extremely conservative and, as the son of the eminent lawyer Otto von Gierke, was treated relatively mildly during the Nazi era despite his maternal Jewish descent . As an “old civil servant” he could not be dismissed at first, but in 1934 he lost his membership in examination boards. Gierke tried to adapt to the political situation by rejecting the Weimar Republic and advocating National Socialism. Finally, in 1938, under pressure from the Ministry, he had to apply for his early retirement. He stayed in Göttingen and was able to continue publishing.

On May 9, 1945 he was reappointed a member of the university by the postwar rector of Göttingen, Rudolf Smend , where he taught until shortly before his death.

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Julius von Gierke shaped commercial law to a decisive extent through his textbook “Commercial and Shipping Law”. Standing in the German tradition of the 19th century with regard to his understanding of the tasks and position of commercial law in the legal system, he wrote important articles for the "Journal for the entire commercial law and bankruptcy law". As early as 1907 he was a member of the editorial team of the magazine and was co-editor from 1926 until his death.

Von Gierke had already dealt with insurance law since his final thesis. In his work “Insurance Law” (1937–1947) he presented the findings of his fundamental collaboration in this area of ​​law in Germany. For more than fifty years he was one of the most respected scientists in this field.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on family genealogy : von-gierke.com: 1910 to date , accessed on April 17, 2020.
  2. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 147.
  3. ↑ a b Anikó Szabó: Expulsion, Return, Reparation: Göttingen University Lecturers in the Shadow of National Socialism. With a biographical documentation of the dismissed and persecuted university professors , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-89244-381-0 , pp. 147-149 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Gierke, Julius von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gierke, Julius Karl Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1960
Place of death Goettingen