Karl Kroeschell

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Karl Adolf Kroeschell (born November 14, 1927 in Hebenshausen , Witzenhausen district ) is a German legal historian .

Karl Kroeschell was born on the Hebenshausen manor in North Hesse. He grew up in Kassel and Lutterberg . From 1937 he attended the high school for boys in Hannoversch Münden . In 1944 he was exempted from compulsory schooling due to the war. He made up his Abitur in 1946. From 1947 to 1951 he studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1951 he passed the first state examination in law in Celle . In 1953 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with the thesis supervised by Hans Thieme Hesse and the Kaufungerwald in the High Middle Ages . From 1953 to 1958 he was Thieme's research assistant at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1958, he completed his habilitation in the subjects of German legal history, civil law and agricultural law in Freiburg with a thesis on the structure and development of the medieval township in Westphalia.

Kroeschell taught legal history at the University of Göttingen from 1960 to 1975. Since the early sixties he has appeared with numerous publications on agricultural law and in 1963 with a textbook on agricultural law . In December 1961 he became director of the newly established Institute for Agricultural Law there and was in charge of it until 1975. From 1965 to 1994 he was a board member and from 1973 to 1976 he was first chairman of the German Society for Agricultural Law . Kroeschell rejected appointments to Kiel (1959), Marburg and Erlangen (1964), Bielefeld (1970) and Munich (1971). In 1965/66 he was dean of the law faculty in Göttingen.

From the winter semester 1975/76 he taught as the successor to Hans Thieme until his retirement in 1995 as a full professor for German legal history, civil law and commercial law at the University of Freiburg . There he was dean of the law faculty in 1978/79. In 1983 he was a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Sapporo University . Further guest invitations to Japan followed. In 1996 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Osaka City University . In 1960 he became a member of the Istituto di Diritto Agrario Internazionale e Comparato in Florence. He is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 1989), the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (since 1972) and the Constance Working Group for Medieval History (since 1990). In 1963 he became Chevalier and in 1972 Officier de l ' Ordre du Mérite agricole . In 2005 he became an honorary member of the Japanese Academy of Sciences .

Kroeschell became known in particular for his German legal history, which has been published several times since 1972 in three volumes . In 2005, after a total of more than 20 years of work, he published an overview of the legal history of Lower Saxony. He is the academic teacher of several legal historians such as Gerhard Köbler , Hermann Nehlsen , Karin Nehlsen-von Stryk and Albrecht Cordes . In 2006 he was awarded the Eike von Repgow Prize for his services to research into German legal history, the Sachsenspiegel and its origins.

Kroeschell married in 1957. The marriage resulted in three daughters. His wife died in 2003.

Fonts

  • A list of publications up to and including 1996 appeared in: Gerhard Köbler, Hermann Nehlsen (eds.): Effects of European Legal History. Festschrift for Karl Kroeschell on his 70th birthday. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42994-7 , pp. 1501-1526.
  • Studies on early and medieval German law (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 20) Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1995. ISBN 3-428-08245-1 .
  • Legal history of Germany in the 20th century (= UTB. Vol. 1681). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992, ISBN 3-8252-1681-0 .

literature

  • Peter Oestmann : Congratulations: Karl Kroeschell on his 90th birthday. In: JuristenZeitung 72/2017, pp 1099-1100.
  • Karin Nehlsen-von Stryk: Karl Kroeschell on his 80th birthday. In: JuristenZeitung 22/2007, pp. 1094-1095.
  • Entry Karl Kroeschell. In: Jürgen Petersohn (Ed.): The Constance Working Group for Medieval History. The members and their work. A bio-bibliographical documentation (= publications of the Constance Working Group for Medieval History on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary 1951–2001. Vol. 2). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7995-6906-5 , pp. 239-244 ( online ).
  • Kroeschell, Karl. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanach 1988/89, 139th year, Vienna 1989, p. 100.
  • Who is who? The German Who's Who. LI. Edition 2013/14, p. 629.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Partial print under the title: Forest Law and Landsiedelrecht in the Kassel area. In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschuchte 4 (1954), pp. 117–154.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Winkler: The development of the institute for agricultural law of the University of Göttingen. In: José Martínez (Ed.): The common agricultural policy facing new challenges. 50 years of the Institute for Agricultural Law. Baden-Baden 2012, pp. 87–94, here: p. 87.
  3. ↑ See the review by Peter Oestmann in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 56 (2006), pp. 211–213.
  4. ^ Winner of the Eike von Repgow Prize
personal data
SURNAME Kroeschell, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kroeschell, Karl Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hebenshausen