Leo Rosenberg

Leo Rosenberg (born January 7, 1879 in Fraustadt , Posen Province , † December 18, 1963 in Munich ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

After studying law , he received his doctorate in 1900 at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau with a thesis on the burden of proof . Here he established the so-called Rosenberg formula , named after him , according to which in principle everyone bears the burden of proof for the existence of the facts favorable to him. After his habilitation in 1906 in Göttingen , he was first associate professor from 1912 , from 1916 full professor and 1926/1927 rector at the Hessian Ludwig University of Gießen , before becoming full professor at the University of Leipzig in 1932 . Because of his Jewish origins, he was forced into retirement in 1934. He survived the National Socialist persecution in Stiefenhofen . His nineteen-year-old daughter died while working and two of his sisters were victims of the Holocaust .

After the war he became a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich until his retirement in 1952. He founded the large textbooks on civil procedure law (today: Rosenberg / Schwab / Gottwald, 18th edition 2018) and on enforcement law (today: Gaul / Schilken / Becker-Eberhard, 12th edition 2010).

The Bavarian Academy of Sciences appointed him a full member in 1954. The universities of Munich (1959) and Innsbruck (1963) awarded him an honorary doctorate .

literature

• Bruno Rimmelspacher :  Rosenberg, Leo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 64 ( digitized version ).
• Karl-Heinz Schwab : Leo Rosenberg . In: A portrait of lawyers. Publisher and authors in 4 decades. Festschrift for the 225th anniversary of the CH Beck publishing house . Munich: Beck, 1988 ISBN 3-406-33196-3 , pp. 650-656
• Karl-Heinz Schwab: Leo Rosenberg. The great processualist . In: Helmut Heinrichs , Harald Franzki , Klaus Schmalz , Michael Stolleis (eds.): German lawyers of Jewish origin . CH Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-36960-X , p. 667-675 .
• Ulrike Gräfe: Leo Rosenberg: Life and Work (1879-1963) . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011. 402 pp. ISBN 3-428-13271-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Leo Rosenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Leo Rosenberg in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rehberg, Markus: Success in the exam - using the example of the beginner's exercise in civil law, in: Bonner Rechtsjournal (BRJ) 2012, p. 182 (185)