Klemens Pleyer

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Klemens Pleyer (born July 17, 1921 in Pilsen ; † August 21, 2000 in Cologne ) was a German legal scholar (private law).

Life

Pleyer's parents were the engineer Alois Pleyer and his wife Ella nee. Schaerf . He is a relative of Wilhelm Pleyer and Kleo Pleyer . Klemens Pleyer attended elementary school and high school in his hometown. Since 1925 he was a member of the German Gymnastics Association under Konrad Henlein . After graduating in 1940, he signed up for the Wehrmacht .

From September 1939 to February 1940 he was in the service of various SS task forces. Pleyer never stated this fact or the exact place of deployment during his lifetime. In October 1941 he was seriously wounded in the legs off Kaluga in Russia. From 1942 he started a career in the senior service of the Security Police and the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS (SD) of the SS. In the Wehrmacht he last took the rank of lieutenant .

As part of a leave of absence, he was able to study one semester of law at the University of Strasbourg in the winter semester of 1942/43 during the Second World War . After the end of the Second World War, he continued his studies at the Philipps University in Marburg . There he passed the first state examination in law in 1948. The second state examination in law followed in 1952 in Frankfurt am Main . In 1953 he was in Marburg with a thesis about the financial and personnel management of German universities to Dr. iur. PhD. Three years later he completed his habilitation with Rudolf Reinhardt in civil law, commercial law, labor law and civil procedural law.

In 1957 Pleyer was appointed to the chair of law at the TH Darmstadt . Just three years later he moved to the University of Mannheim . In 1962 he accepted a professorship for civil, commercial and labor law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 1966 he went to the Free University of Berlin . In 1969 he took over the chair for civil law in Cologne. He taught here until his retirement . In Cologne he was also managing director of the banking law department at the Institute for Banking and Banking Law until 1986.

From 1958 to 1960, Pleyer was dean of the then faculty for cultural and political science at the TH Darmstadt, 1968/69 dean of the law faculty of the Free University of Berlin and 1973/74 dean of the law faculty in Cologne.

Pleyer had been with Otti born in the 1940s . Böttner married.

Pleyer Foundations

In his will, Klemens Pleyer had decreed on August 14, 1986 that a Klemens Pleyer Foundation should be set up at various university locations where he worked after 1945. Such mostly dependent foundations now exist at the University of Marburg, the Technical University of Darmstadt (in the administration of the Association of Friends of the TH zu Darmstadt), the University of Cologne (in the administration of the Association for the Promotion of the Institute for Banking and Banking Law). The purpose of these foundations is a. the promotion of research and teaching in different areas of law.

literature

  • Isabel Schmidt: The TH Darmstadt in the post-war period (1945-1960) , dissertation, Masch., Darmstadt 2014, p. 366f.
  • Paul Hofmann: Festschrift for Klemens Pleyer on his 65th birthday , Cologne 1986.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The asset and personnel management of German universities presented using history. A contribution to the problem area university and state .
personal data
SURNAME Pleyer, Klemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Pilsen
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2000
Place of death Cologne