Karl Siegfried Bader

Karl Siegfried Bader (born August 27, 1905 in Waldau ; † September 13, 1998 in Zurich ) was a German lawyer and legal historian .

Life

Bader was the son of a main teacher and grew up in Geisingen near Donaueschingen in a rural area. In 1924 he passed his Abitur at the high school there. He studied in Tübingen , Vienna , Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau ; In 1928 he received his doctorate in law . He then worked for a few years in the judicial service of the state of Baden , but was dismissed in 1933 due to the political situation. Therefore Bader opened a law firm in Freiburg; He was strongly committed to Jews and others persecuted by the Nazi state . In 1937 he withdrew from this politically difficult job. From 1936 to 1945 Bader was director of the Fürstlich-Fürstenberg Archive in Donaueschingen. In 1942 he completed his habilitation in legal history and church law at the University of Freiburg . A year earlier he had been drafted into the military, where he worked as a clerk and defense attorney before military courts . In July 1945 he returned home from an American prisoner of war . In the same year he was appointed senior public prosecutor by the French military government . In 1946 he was promoted to general public prosecutor at the Freiburg Higher Regional Court . In this role he led the indictment against the arsonists of the Freiburg synagogue and the Erzberg murderer Heinrich Tillessen .

Disappointed at the difficulties and failures in prosecuting Nazi perpetrators, Bader resigned from his post as Attorney General in 1951. Instead, he accepted a call as professor of legal history at the University of Mainz . In 1953 he took over the chair for Swiss and German legal history at the University of Zurich . He stayed there until his retirement in 1975. His research focus was on legal history and national history, especially of the Alemannic region. In total, Bader has over 1,100 publications on criminal law , legal, constitutional and national history. He was co-founder and co-editor of the JuristenZeitung . From 1952 he was in charge of the literature section of the German department of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History .

Bader received numerous honors, including the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and the Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg in 1985 ; In 1972 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In the same year he was elected a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . He is an honorary citizen of the city of Elzach and the city of Geisingen , where he is also buried.

Fonts (selection)

• The German Southwest in its territorial state development , Koehler, Stuttgart 1950, Thorbecke, 2nd edition, Sigmaringen 1978, ISBN 978-3-7995-6028-3 .
• Studies on the legal history of the medieval village , 3 volumes, Böhlau, Weimar 1957–1973,
  • Vol. 1: The medieval village as a peace and legal area , Böhlau, 3rd edition, Cologne, Vienna 1981, ISBN 978-3-412-06981-0 ;
  • Vol. 2: Village cooperative and village community , Böhlau, 2nd edition, Cologne, Vienna, Graz 1974, ISBN 978-3-205-00014-3 ;
  • Vol. 3: Legal forms and layers of property use in the medieval village. With additions and addenda to parts 1 and 2 of the studies on the legal history of the medieval village , Böhlau, Cologne, Vienna, Graz 1973, ISBN 978-3-205-07102-0 .
• Selected writings on legal and regional history , ed. by Clausdieter Schott and Helmut Maurer, 3 volumes, Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1983–1984.
• together with Gerhard Dilcher : German legal history. Country and city, citizens and farmers in old Europe , Springer, Berlin a. a. 1999, ISBN 978-3-642-63677-6 .

Articles available online:

• Friedrich von Hundbiss , the last Obervogt of Reichenau, and his "Historical-Topographical Description of the Reichenau Island" , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 78th year, 1960, pp. 1-64 ( digitized version) .
• A bailiff of Landgraviate Heiligenberg in the age of the Thirty Years' War , in: writings of the Society for the History of Lake Constance and its surroundings .., 84. Jg, 1966, pp 19-38 ( digitized )
• Manngrab und Hofstatt , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 92nd year, 1974, pp. 131–168 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Ferdinand Elsener, WH Ruoff (ed.): Festschrift for Karl Siegfried Bader. Legal history, legal language, legal archeology, legal folklore. Schulthess, Zurich 1965.
• Walter Müller, Claudio Soliva (ed.): Two decades of legal history at the University of Zurich. Supervision of the subject at the time of Karl S. Bader's professor in Zurich (1953–1975). Schulthess, Zurich 1975, ISBN 3-7255-1664-2 .
• Clausdieter Schott : Karl Siegfried Bader 1905–1998. in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department. 119, 2002, ISSN  0323-4045 , pp. 1-14.
• Angela Borgstedt : Karl Siegfried Bader's legal work in the Nazi dictatorship. In: Schau-ins-Land. 128, 2009, ISSN  1434-2766 , pp. 171-182.
• Karl S. Bader in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Siegfried Bader in the catalog of the German National Library
• Writings by Karl Siegfried Bader in the opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Claudio Soliva: Karl Siegfried Bader. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, p. 20 , accessed on June 12, 2019 .