Kurt Wüstenberg

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Kurt Wilhelm Wüstenberg (born December 5, 1906 in Grimmen ; † May 4, 1997 in Müllheim (Baden) ) was a German lawyer who was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice between 1952 and 1974 .

Life

Wüstenberg graduated from high school in Stralsund in 1925. He then studied law at the Philipps University in Marburg and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1931 he passed the first state examination in law. In 1934 he passed his assessor examination and in 1938 joined the Bavarian judicial service as a local judge at the district court of Würzburg . In 1941 Wüstenberg was appointed senior judge at the Bamberg Higher Regional Court . In 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served in the army until 1944, most recently as lieutenant d. R. From 1945 to 1949 he was a Yugoslav prisoner of war. After returning to Germany, he was appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice on November 3, 1952. He worked there until his retirement on December 31, 1974. During this time, Wüstenberg was an advisor to the marriage law commission of the Evangelical Church and the marriage law commission formed at the Federal Ministry of Justice . As part of this activity, he positioned himself together with Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt against the breakdown principle . He was accused of having enforced “outdated law” in his work at the Federal Court of Justice. He was also a co-commentator in the Reichsgerichträtekommentar (" The civil code with special consideration of the case law of the Reichsgericht and the Federal Supreme Court ") and was responsible for commenting on the marriage law. After his retirement, Desert Mountain doctorate at the age of 83 years in 1989 in Winfried Trusen at the University of Würzburg to Dr. jur. utr. with the dissertation Protestant marriage law in the margraviate of Baden-Durlach: Its design and development in the first one and a half centuries after the introduction of the Reformation (1556–1700) , which was given the top grade “ summa cum laude ”.

Publications

  • Protestant marriage law in the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach: Its design and development in the first one and a half centuries after the introduction of the Reformation (1556 - 1700) , Verl. Evang. Press association for Baden, Karlsruhe 1991, ISBN 978-3-87210-338-3

Individual evidence

  1. DER SPIEGEL: “Nice new house” , March 2, 1970