Karl Michaelis

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Karl Michaelis (born December 21, 1900 in Gadderbaum - Bethel , today Bielefeld , † August 14, 2001 in Göttingen ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Michaelis studied law, economics and philosophy in Münster , Munich and Göttingen . In Göttingen he received his doctorate in 1925 and his habilitation in 1931 . He received the Venia legendi for civil law and modern legal history.

In 1934 Michaelis was appointed associate professor for law and political science at the University of Kiel . Michaelis was a member of the NSDAP and, along with Franz Wieacker , Karl Larenz , Wolfgang Siebert , Ernst Rudolf Huber , Georg Dahm and Friedrich Schaffstein, belonged to a group of younger professors known as the Kiel School , who saw themselves as a group of pioneers in the National Socialist reform of the law . In 1938 he became a full professor for civil law, procedural law and modern legal history at the University of Leipzig . There he was Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1942 to 1944 .

After the end of the war Michaelis was dismissed from his post as a professor due to his membership in Nazi organizations. From 1949 he took up a teaching position for the history of private law at the Provincial School College in Münster. In 1951 Michaelis succeeded Hermann Schultze von Lasaulx as a full professor of German legal history, civil law and civil procedural law at the University of Münster. From 1956 until his retirement in 1969 he was a full professor for civil law and modern legal history as well as church law at the University of Göttingen. As part of an investigation into the history of the faculty, the legal historian Eva Schumann placed Karl Michaelis in a phase of re-Nazification that began in 1954, during which the Göttingen legal faculty received numerous appeals to former members of the Kiel School.

In the 1960/61 academic year Michaelis was Dean of the Faculty of Law and, from 1970, a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • The state theory of Karl Rodbertus and its position in the social philosophy of the 19th century. Dissertation, University of Göttingen, 1926.
  • The determination process. An investigation into the subject matter and the limits of the legal force of the declaratory judgment. Habilitation thesis, University of Göttingen, 1931.
  • Contributions to the structure and further training of claims law. Weicher, Leipzig 1943.
  • The University of Münster 1945–1955. Their reconstruction in connection with the development of their constitution. Regensberg and Biermann, Münster 1988, ISBN 3-924469-26-1 .
  • Occidental marriage law in the transition from the late Middle Ages to the modern era. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990.

literature

  • Sebastian Felz: In the spirit of truth? Between science and politics. The Münster jurists from the Weimar Republic to the early Federal Republic. In: Hans-Ulrich Thamer , Daniel Droste, Sabine Happ (eds.): The University of Münster in National Socialism. Continuities and breaks between 1920 and 1960 (= publications of the Münster University Archives. Volume 5). Aschendorff, Münster 2012, Vol. 1, pp. 347-412.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , pp. 410 .
  • Hans-Martin Pawlowski , Franz Wieacker (Ed.): Festschrift for Karl Michaelis. On his 70th birthday on December 21, 1970. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1972.
  • Obituary Karl Michaelis. In: Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen for the year 2004. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, p. 351 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , pp. 410 .
  2. ^ Eva Schumann: The Göttingen Law and Political Science Faculty 1933–1955 . In this. (Ed.), Continuities and Caesuras. Jurisprudence and lawyers in the »Third Reich« and in the post-war period. Göttingen 2008. pp. 65–121.
personal data
SURNAME Michaelis, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Gadderbaum - Bethel
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 2001
Place of death Goettingen