Leo Raape

Leo Raape (born June 14, 1878 in Rheydt ; † December 7, 1964 in Hamburg ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Raape was born in Rheydt in 1878 as the son of a railway worker. He attended schools in Osterburg (Altmark) , Viersen , Rheydt and Krefeld . In 1896 he received his university entrance qualification certificate in Krefeld. From 1896 to 1899 Raape studied law at the University of Bonn and passed the first state law examination in 1899. Then he was a trainee lawyer in Königswinter , Bonn and Cologne and in 1903 passed the second state examination in law.

Gravestone Leo Raape
Univ. Prof. Dr. Jur. , Ohlsdorf cemetery

In 1901, Raape received his doctorate from the University of Bonn with the dissertation Acquisition of Ownership Without Willing to Ownership according to the German Civil Code . There he also obtained the venia legendi in the areas of civil law and international private law in 1906 . He was initially appointed to the University of Halle and published in 1912 the text Der Verfall des Greek Pfandes, especially the Greek-Egyptian.

In 1913 he went to London to prepare for a professorship at the University of Tokyo , but eventually returned to Germany at the beginning of the war and joined the army, where he was wounded in the Battle of Masuria . In 1915 he got a position in the War Ministry.

In 1924 he was offered a chair for civil law at the University of Hamburg. He declined calls to Jena (1929) and Göttingen (1932). From October 1932 to September 1933 Raape was rector of the University of Hamburg . At the Rectors' Conference in April 1933, he proposed to protest against the dismissal of the Jewish university professors. The proposal was rejected by the majority of the rectors present as "dangerous and hopeless".

Raape, who did not join the NSDAP, retired in 1948, but continued teaching until 1963. He died in 1964 at the age of 86 in the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf , he was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square T 26 (southeast of Lippertplatz ).

Act

Raape was co-editor of the Archives for Civilist Practice . He wrote widely received work on international private law (Internationales Privatrecht (1938)). In 1958 he was awarded the Medal for Art and Science of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg by the Senate for his work .

Fonts

• Acquisition of ownership without will to own property according to the German Civil Code. Georgi, Bonn 1901 (Bonn, University, dissertation, 1901).
• The forfeiture of the Greek pledge, especially the Greek-Egyptian one. A study. Bookshop of the orphanage, Halle (Saale) 1912.
• German international private law. Application of foreign law. 2 volumes. Vahlen, Berlin 1938–1939.

literature

• Ulrich Magnus :  Raape, Johann Friedrich Leo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 58 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Gerhard Kegel : Leo Raape and IPR of the present . In: Rabel's Journal for Foreign and International Private Law . tape 30 , 1966, pp. 1-16 .
• Konrad Zweigert : Leo Raape . In: Law Faculty of the University of Hamburg (ed.): Life pictures of Hamburg law teachers . University of Hamburg, Hamburg 1969, p. 77-82 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Hort of reaction or stronghold of liberalism? The Hamburg University in the Weimar Republic. In: Karl Christian Führer, Karen Hagemann, Birthe Kundrus (Ed.): Eliten im Wandel. Social leadership groups in the 19th and 20th centuries. For Klaus Saul on his 65th birthday. Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89691-550-9 , pp. 179–197, here p. 191.
2. ↑ Celebrity Graves

Web links

• Literature by and about Leo Raape in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Leo Raape in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis