Karl Bruchhausen

Karl Bruchhausen (born March 18, 1928 in Bruchhausen near Opladen , today Leverkusen , † September 23, 1994 in Karlsruhe ) was a German legal scholar and a judge at the Federal Court of Justice from 1968 to 1993 .

Life

Bruchhausen was drafted as an anti-aircraft helper in 1944 at the age of 16 and suffered serious injuries during World War II . He passed his Abitur in 1946 and then studied in Cologne. In addition, he received his doctorate in 1952 on “The employer's transfer law and its limits”. He completed his legal clerkship in the district of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court .

In 1955 he began his professional career as a judge in the 4th Chamber of the Düsseldorf Regional Court, which is responsible for commercial legal protection . Its chairman Werner vom Stein should prove to be an important role model for his career in the judiciary. From 1961 to 1964 he was seconded as a research assistant to the First Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice , which dealt with commercial legal protection. After the division of the Senate in 1963, he remained in the Ia Senate, to which responsibility for patent matters was transferred. He then worked for the 2nd civil senate of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, responsible for commercial legal protection, where he met again with Werner vom Stein, who was in charge of this senate.

In April 1968 he was appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice and assigned to the Xth Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, known as the Patent Senate . He was the youngest member of the court at the time. In September 1985 he took over the chairmanship of the Senate. In the same year he received a teaching position for patent law at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . In 1993 the latter appointed him honorary professor. At the same time, his term of office at the Federal Court of Justice ended in March of this year.

He then worked as the presiding judge of the 12th civil senate of the Dresden Higher Regional Court , which is also responsible for commercial legal protection , in order to help set up the jurisdiction in the new federal states. He died on September 23, 1994 as a result of a difficult operation.

literature

• Rüdiger Rogge , Ulrich Krieger: Dr. Karl Bruchhausen on his 65th birthday. In: Commercial legal protection and copyright 1993, p. 167f.
• Kurt von Falck: Prof. Dr. Karl Bruchhausen. In: Commercial legal protection and copyright 1994, p. 755.
• Rudolf Nirk : Karl Bruchhausen. In: Neue Juristische Wochenzeitung 1995, pp. 113f.