Konrad Hellwig

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Konrad Maximilian Hellwig (born September 27, 1856 in Zierenberg ; † September 7, 1913 in Berlin-Grunewald ) was a German legal scholar primarily in the field of civil procedural law.

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Hellwig was born in Zierenberg near Kassel in 1856 . He was orphaned early and was raised by female relatives. He attended the Friedrichsgymnasium in Kassel (at the same time the three years younger Wilhelm II attended the same school). In 1875 he began studying law at Heidelberg University , which he finished in 1878 after changing universities to Leipzig , Marburg and Strasbourg universities . In 1878 he received his doctorate from the University of Strasbourg. He then worked as a trainee lawyer (including with Otto Bähr ) and for a short time as a judge . In 1883 he received his habilitation at the University of Leipzig with the text: " The pledging and seizure of claims according to common law and the Reich civil process order taking into account the Prussian general land law and the Saxon civil code ". Bernhard Windscheid was dean in Leipzig at the time .

Then he was a private lecturer in Leipzig, from 1885 associate professor, first at the University of Rostock , and finally at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . In 1888 he was offered a chair for Roman law and civil procedural law at the University of Erlangen . In 1895/96 he becomes Vice Rector . In 1902 he moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin . There he campaigned intensively for faculty life and legal training. He called for the introduction of an intermediate examination . He was generally positive about the legal revision course . In 1904/05 and 1911/12 he was dean of the law faculty in Berlin. In the spring of 1913 he fell ill with severe influenza from which he no longer recovered and which he succumbed to in Berlin in September 1913.

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After his habilitation thesis in 1883, Hellwig's no longer published any larger works. He also did not comment on the drafts of the Civil Code in the scientific discourse. Only after completing the work on the BGB did he publish the monographs The Contracts for Performance to Third Parties (1899), Claim and Right of Action (1900), and Nature and Subjective Limitation of Legal Force (1901) within three years , which he found great within a short time Bred notoriety throughout Germany. From 1903 on, the three volumes of his textbook on German civil procedure law followed. Since the end of the textbook was not in sight, he published a shorter book on civil procedural law in 1912, the system of German civil procedural law. Even before it was completed, he died, so that the third volume of the system on foreclosure could no longer appear. He could gain little from legal philosophy and comparative law. In terms of legal history, he was oriented towards Romansh.

Fonts (selection)

  • Contracts for performance to third parties (1899)
  • Right of avoidance and right of avoidance according to the KO. (1899) -
  • Claim and right of action (1900)
  • Nature and subjective limitation of legal force (1901)
  • Textbook on German Civil Procedure Law (3 volumes) (1903–1909)
  • Right of action and possibility of action (1905)
  • Limits of retroactive effect (1907).
  • Litigation and Legal Transaction (1910).
  • Civil Law Cases (1910).
  • Renunciation of inheritance and contestation of creditors (1911).
  • Internship in civil litigation (1911).
  • System of German Civil Procedure Law (1912)
  • Civil law in: Philipp Zorn , Herbert von Berger (editor): Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Ed. By Siegfried Körte, Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell and others 3 volumes. R. Hobbing, Berlin 1914.
  • Claim and Right of Action (1924)

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SURNAME Hellwig, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellwig, Konrad Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Zierenberg
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1913
Place of death Berlin-Grunewald