Konrad Zweigert

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Konrad Zweigert (born January 22, 1911 in Posen , German Empire , † February 12, 1996 in Wedel ) was a German legal scholar. He was a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court and professor of comparative law and international private law .

biography

Origin and education

Zweigert came from a family of lawyers: his father Erich was a judge and then state secretary until 1933, and his grandfathers were attorney at law in the empire and the Saxon minister of justice. Zweigert studied law at the universities of Grenoble , Göttingen and Berlin . In 1933 he passed the first state examination and in 1937 the second state examination in law.

Scientific activity

He decided to work as a researcher at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Berlin. After completing his habilitation at the University of Tübingen in 1946, he became a full professor there in 1948, and in 1956 he was appointed to the University of Hamburg in connection with the move of the Max Planck Institute . Zweigert had been a Scientific Member since 1952 and from 1963 to 1979 Director of the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law . From 1967 to 1978 he was also Vice President of the Max Planck Society .

He is also known for his introduction to comparative law , written together with Hein Kötz , which is the standard work in the field of comparative law.

Zweigert received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Uppsala , Paris II and Southampton .

Konrad Zweigert was a member of the German-French Lawyers Association.

In some cases, Zweigert wrote about the time when the article "Taboos in Germany - about the bad communists and good morals" appeared there in January 1965.

Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court

Zweigert was a member of the SPD . Due to his election by the German Bundestag on September 7, 1951 (and a re-election on December 9, 1955) until August 31, 1956, he was a member of the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court . He worked at the constitutional court alongside his ordinariate in Tübingen. Zweigert did not have a successor in office because in 1956 the number of members of the Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court was reduced from twelve to eight.

Publications (selection)

  • Konrad Zweigert, Hein Kötz : Introduction to Comparative Law , 3rd, revised edition, Tübingen: Mohr 1996, ISBN 978-3-16-146548-2 , (former title: Zweigert, Konrad: Introduction to Comparative Law in the Field of Private Law ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Drobnig: Konrad Zweigert (1911 - 1996) , in: Stefan Grundmann , German-speaking civil law teachers of the 20th century in reports of their students, Volume 1 (2007), p. 90 [1]
  2. ↑ Ulrich Drobnig: Konrad Zweigert (1911 - 1996) , in: Stefan Grundmann , German-speaking civil law teachers of the 20th century in reports of their students, Volume 1 (2007), p. 92 [2]
  3. ↑ Ulrich Drobnig: Konrad Zweigert (1911 - 1996) , in: Stefan Grundmann , German-speaking civil law teachers of the 20th century in reports of their students, Volume 1 (2007), p. 92 [3]
  4. ↑ see "Taboos in Germany" online, ZEIT 1965
personal data
SURNAME Zweigert, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German constitutional judge
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1996
Place of death frond