Karl Egbert Wenzel

Karl Egbert Wenzel (born August 11, 1930 in Breslau ; † August 22, 1998 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer and media lawyer .

Life

Wenzel studied law in Cologne and did his doctorate with Wolfgang Hefermehl as Dr. iur. During his studies he was active in the Corps Silesia . After completing his doctorate, he joined the law firm of Stuttgart press lawyer Martin Löffler in 1963 and became a partner there. He was made an honorary professor for his part-time teaching at the Fachhochschule Druck, today's Stuttgart Media University.

The main focus of Wenzel's academic activity was research into and support for the development of media , copyright and trademark law in a changing modern society. He was editor of the magazine AfP - magazine for media and communication law . He was also a board member of the Stuttgart Bar Association .

As a lawyer, he took the so-called Hackethal decision on the medical advertising ban before the Federal Constitutional Court . Wenzel's works on copyright law and word and picture reporting have become standard works; they will be reissued regularly even after his death.

Works

• The right of word and picture reporting , 1966, 2nd edition 1979, 3rd edition 1986
• Copyright for Practice , 1987, 2nd edition 1990, 3rd edition 1996
• Co-editor of: Löffler, Presserecht , 4th edition 1997 (together with Klaus Sedelmeier)
• Injunctive injunctions in media matters , in: Heldrich (Ed.), Media between Spruch and Information Interest - Festschrift for Robert Schweizer on his 60th birthday, 1995. Digitized here

literature

• Edgar Kull: A reliable one - obituary for Karl Egbert Wenzel . In: AfP 1998, p. 380
• Martin Bullinger : Karl Egbert Wenzel † . In: NJW 1998, p. 3699
• Karl Egbert Wenzel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1998, pp. 230 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Egbert Wenzel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Karl Egbert Wenzel  in the German Digital Library