Karl Heinz Neumayer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Karl Heinz Neumayer (born December 10, 1920 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † January 24, 2009 in Lausanne ) was a German law scholar and university professor .

family

Neumayer was the son of the North Baden District Administrator born Karl Neumayer in Freiburg, whose father and forefathers the pharmacy in Eberbach led. His mother Elsi geb. Matter came from Aargau, Switzerland .

Life

Early years and studies

Neumayer lived in Mannheim until he graduated from a humanistic grammar school in 1939 . He then studied law from 1939 to 1941 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Karls-Universität Prague and graduated in 1941 with the first legal state examination in Leitmeritz in Bohemia and the grade "good". In 1941 he was called up for military service, from which he left in 1945.

From 1945 to 1949, Neymayer completed his legal clerkship in the North Baden state service. In the meantime he wrote his dissertation, which was entitled “The interests of the child in the parents' divorce process - An investigation on a comparative legal and sociological basis” and was awarded a doctorate in 1947 at the University of Heidelberg. iuris is doing his doctorate. In 1949 he passed the second state examination in law, again with the grade "good", as the best of the candidates in his year. In 1951 he was admitted to the bar.

KWI and Society for Comparative Law

After completing his studies, Neumayer worked from 1949 to 1957, initially as a research assistant at the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (KWI) for foreign and international private law in Tübingen , and later in Hamburg , responsible for Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Ibero-American law.

In 1950 Neumayer was a founding member of the Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung e. V. in Freiburg im Breisgau , held the office of executive secretary there from 1953 and the office of general secretary of the society from 1956 to 1963. Until 1985 he was also a member of the board.

Career as a professor

In 1957 he followed a call to the Université de Lausanne , where he was initially associate professor and from 1963 full professor for German civil and commercial law at the chair for German law . From 1962 to 1965 he was dean of the law faculty and director of the Institut de droit comparé in Lausanne. He also taught at the Université du Luxembourg at the same time , where he was also Dean of the Faculty of Law. He was also visiting professor at the University of Friborg in Switzerland from 1965 to 1974 .

In 1966 he was appointed full professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , where he was professor of comparative law , international private law , foreign civil and commercial law , German civil law and commercial law. From 1966 to 1989 he was also the sole director of the Institute for Comparative Law and Foreign Civil and Commercial Law and Dean of the Law Faculty in Würzburg. Even after his appointment as full professor in Würzburg, Neumayer continued his teaching activities in Lausanne as a part-time professeur associé for German law students .

Neumayer's publications show the range of his areas of interest and research. Neumayer wrote numerous academic papers and essays on international civil, commercial and family law, as well as on the comparative law of German, foreign and constitutional material commercial law, constitutional law and legal history.

During his tenure at the University of Würzburg he was elected to a large number of university commissions, including a. he chaired the partnership relations committee at the University of Padua in Italy for more than ten years and has made a name for himself through his repeated personal commitment to strengthening the close friendly relations with the Law Faculty of the University of Caen in France .

In addition, Neumayer was visiting professor at several foreign universities and gave numerous lectures at several universities in Europe, America and Africa.

Baden Commission

In the 1950s, Neumayer developed a state and constitutional argument that confirmed the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of May 30, 1956 on the claim of the population of Baden to a referendum for the restoration of the old state of Baden under Article 29.2 of the Basic Law. This was published in the same year under the title: "The reorganization of the federal territory and the state of Baden" .

After the referendum was successfully carried out, the Federal Minister of the Interior, Gerhard Schröder , appointed him to the so-called "Baden Commission" in 1959 , which prepared a constitutional opinion on the question of the constitutional situation in the Baden area after the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of May 30, 1956 and after the referendum of 1956, could be taken into account.

The commission, which also included Herbert Krüger , Hamburg, and Hans Schneider , Heidelberg, came to the conclusion in their report submitted in December 1960 that the Federal Government was obliged to submit an overall plan for the reorganization of the federal territory in the form of a draft law to the Bundestag and to be submitted to the Federal Council . In addition, she had recommended that the Baden area remain in the state of Baden-Württemberg .

Late years in Lausanne

After his retirement in 1991, he lived in Lausanne, where he died on January 24, 2009 at the age of 88. His grave is in the Bois-de-Vaux cemetery near the University of Lausanne .

Honors

Publications

  • Neumayer, Karl H. (Ed.): International encyclopedia of comparative law / Vol. 5. Succession / Ch. 8/9. Liability for obligations of the inheritance , Tübingen 2002
  • The contrats d'adhesion dans les pays industrialisés. Librairie Droz, Geneva 1999
  • Karl Heinz Neumayer: 100 years of teaching German law at the University of Lausanne. In: Gratiae Fructus, Festschrift in honor of the University of Lausanne - 100 years of teaching German law at the University of Lausanne - 100 years of the Germania Lausanne Corporation. Pp. 19-33. Donau-Druck, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-927529-46-X .
  • Neumayer, Karl H. (co-author): Formation of Contracts - A Study of the Common Core of Legal Systems. 2 volumes, London 1968
  • On the positive function of the conflict of laws reservation clause (a contribution to the validity of mandatory legal provisions and over-positive basic norms in international private law) , Tübingen 1963
  • Herbert Krüger , Karl Heinz Neumayer, Hans Schneider : Baden-Württemberg or Baden and Württemberg. Hamburg public law auxiliary hours, Volume 4, Hamburg 1960
  • Provides legal opinion on behalf of the Federal Minister of the Interior on the question "How is the constitutional assessment of the situation that arose through the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of May 30, 1956 and through the referendum in the Baden part of the state of Baden-Württemberg?" , Hamburg 1960
  • The restructuring of the federal territory and the state of Baden. Mohr, Tübingen 1955
  • The combination of asset separation and asset sharing in matrimonial property law: A comparative law contribution to d. Problems of family law. Equality between men and women Woman in magazine f. foreign u. international private law , Berlin 1954
  • The interests of the child in the parents' divorce process , dissertation, Heidelberg 1948

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See list of publications in Festschrift for Karl H. Neumayer on his 65th birthday. Baden-Baden, Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1985, p. 557 ff.
  2. ↑ Proposals of the Expert Commission for the Baden Question, 72nd meeting of the Federal Government on July 2, 1959, Item C (Cabinet Protocols 1959, p. 246).
  3. ↑ see ibid
  4. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Neumayer, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2009
Place of death Lausanne