Karl Rauch (legal scholar)

Karl Rauch (born March 27, 1880 in Graz , † February 26, 1953 in Bad Godesberg ) was an Austrian legal scholar , legal historian and university professor .

life and work

Rauch attended the Lichtenfelsgymnasium in Graz. After graduating, he first studied music at the University of Leipzig , but soon moved to the University of Graz , where he also switched to history and law . In 1903 he received his doctorate in law in Graz. From 1904 he deepened his legal history studies at the University of Berlin under Heinrich Brunner and Karl Zeumer . From 1905 Rauch worked on the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . From 1906 he held an extraordinary professorship at the University of Breslau . In Breslau , Rauch completed his habilitation under the supervision of Herbert Meyer in April 1907 and received the Venia legendi for legal history.

As a result, he became an associate professor at the University of Königsberg in August 1908 , before moving back to the University of Breslau in 1911. In April 1912, Rauch finally took up his first full professorship at the University of Jena as the successor to Hans Fehr . In Jena he also increasingly took on governmental tasks and in 1914 was initially deputy mayor, then in 1916 president of the Thuringian food office and in 1918 state commissioner . In 1920 he finally gave up his professorship entirely in order to devote himself to administrative activities as a ministerial director in the Thuringian Ministry of Economic Affairs, but remained an honorary professor at the Jena University. As Ministerialdirektor he went to court in 1926/27 against the editors of the right-wing extremist magazine Der Nationalozialist , in which he was described as a racial Jew Rauch . In addition, Rauch took over the Böhlau Verlag in 1925 and the Dietsch and Brückner printing works in 1927. As a ministerial director, he was involved in the construction of the large Saale dam.

In 1932 Rauch switched back to research and teaching and became a full professor at the University of Kiel . Shortly after the seizure of power , in April 1933, Rauch was given a leave of absence with immediate effect. He himself attributed this to his legal dispute with the National Socialists in the 1920s. However, since the law to restore the civil service did not apply to him, he was initially "deported" to the University of Bonn and replaced in Kiel by the more loyal Karl August Eckhardt . He stayed in Bonn until 1942 when he accepted a position from his alma mater in Graz. There he became Vice Rector in 1944 and, after the end of the war, as one of the few unencumbered professors, Rector of the university. In 1948 he retired and after his retirement he worked as an adjunct honorary professor at the University of Bonn until his death in 1953. There he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. appointed hc .

Rauch's area of ​​research was legal history, especially German. Overall, he took a more left-wing liberal approach in contrast to the prevailing doctrine in National Socialist Germany. In addition, he was also active in the field of commercial and business law, especially in legal history. The information scientist Wolf Rauch is his grandson.

Fonts (selection)

• Treatise on the Reichstag in the 16th century: an officious account from the Kurmainz chancellery . Böhlau, Weimar 1905.
• Track following and beginning in their interrelationships: A contribution to the history of the German driving process . Böhlau, Weimar 1908 (habilitation thesis).
• The municipal associations as carriers of the food supply with special consideration of the organization in the Thuringian states . Böhlau, Weimar 1917.
• Capital increase from company funds: A comparative legal study . Böhlau, Weimar 1940.
• Form change in the new German business law . K. Rauch Verlag, Graz 1943.

Web links

• Rauch in the Kiel list of scholars

literature

• Franz Beyerle : Karl Rauch † , in ZRG 1953, p. XXXVff.
• Wolfgang Kunkel : Karl Rauch † , in ZRG 1953, p. 522ff.
• Mathias Schmoeckel : The lawyers of the University of Bonn in the Third Reich , Böhlau 2004, p. 552ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Professor Dr. Karl Rauch at uni-kiel.de, accessed on November 18, 2018.