Karl Lehmann (lawyer)

Karl Lehmann (born October 11, 1858 in Tuchel ( West Prussia ), † April 5, 1918 in Bonn ) was a German legal scholar and rector of the University of Rostock .

Life

Lehmann studied law at the universities in Berlin , Leipzig and Munich . In Leipzig he became a member of the Mecklenburgia Landsmannschaft . In 1882 Lehmann received his doctorate in Munich with a dissertation on engagements and weddings based on the North Germanic legal sources . After his habilitation in 1885 on the subject of the King's Peace of the North Germanic Peoples , Lehmann worked for three years as a private lecturer at the Faculty of Law in Berlin before he was offered a full professorship at the University of Rostock in 1888. Here Lehmann researched and taught applicable commercial law and the law of stock corporations. In addition, Lehmann concentrated on legal history with a focus on Germanic legal history, Longobard feudal law and the rights of the northern Germanic people.

In 1904 Lehmann was elected rector of the University of Rostock. In 1911 he accepted the call to the University of Göttingen . Outside the university, Lehmann worked as a member of the state committee of the German Fleet Association and as a department head of the German Colonial Society . At his request, Lehmann was buried in Rostock.

He had been married to the artist and author Henni Lehmann since 1888 and spent a lot of time with her on Hiddensee . Their children together were the linguist Eva Fiesel and the archaeologist Karl Lehmann .

literature

• Ralph Weber . In: Angela Hartwig, Tilmann Schmidt (ed.): The Rectors of the University of Rostock - 1419–2000. Universitätsdruckerei Rostock-Universitätsarchiv 2000, ISBN 3-86009-173-5 ( Contributions to the history of the University of Rostock. Issue 23).

Web links

• Literature about Karl Lehmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Karl Lehmann in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Karl Lehmann in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium