Ludwig Raiser

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Ludwig Raiser (born October 27, 1904 in Stuttgart ; † June 13, 1980 in Tübingen ) was professor of civil , commercial and economic law .

Family and education

As the son of Carl Raiser , the general director of the Württemberg private fire insurance company , Raiser was born into a family of the Swabian upper middle class . After graduating from the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart, he completed a commercial internship. This was followed from the winter semester 1923/24 by studying law at the universities of Munich , Geneva and Berlin , which Raiser graduated in 1927. With the mediation of Martin Wolff , he became an assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Foreign and International Private Law at the University of Berlin in 1927 , which was headed by the famous comparator Ernst Rabel . In 1931 Raiser received his doctorate in law with his dissertation The Effects of Bills of Exchange Declarations in Private International Law . With his most important work entitled The Law of General Terms and Conditions , Raiser's habilitation took place only two years later.

His son Konrad became a theologian and was general secretary of the World Council of Churches .

Professional career until 1945

Despite his habilitation in December 1933, Raiser did not receive a lectureship because, together with other lecturers and post-doctoral candidates, he had protested against the dismissal of Jewish and other politically suspicious professors in the course of the seizure of power . For this reason, Raiser wrote his book until 1935, which had the same title as his habilitation thesis and, until the law regulating the law of general terms and conditions was passed in 1976, formed the basis for testing the effectiveness of so-called general terms and conditions, and in this respect the basis for consumer protection. Thanks to his father's contacts, he succeeded in entering the insurance industry. There he was a member of the board of directors of the Magdeburg Insurance Group, responsible for international business. In 1942, despite his opposition to the regime, he was appointed to the newly founded Reich University of Strasbourg in the de facto annexed Alsace . However, he did not hold lectures because he was called up as a soldier. During the Second World War , Raiser was taken prisoner by the English , from which he was released at the instigation of Rudolf Smend and appointed to the University of Göttingen .

Work after 1945

As a professor in Göttingen, Raiser was responsible for denazifying the teaching staff. After a visiting professorship in Berlin, he was elected rector of the university in 1948 in order to fend off attempts to poach the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . He held this office until 1950. During this time he was instrumental in founding the West German Rectors' Conference and the German Research Foundation . He headed the latter from 1951 to 1955.

Raiser then accepted the offer at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , where he taught until his retirement in 1973.

The focus of his work was corporate and commercial law . He also published the textbook for property law founded by Martin Wolff (10th edition 1957). In addition to his work in science and teaching, he also took on many non-university tasks, for example as a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Minister of Economics . 1961 to 1965 Raiser was chairman of the science council . After completing this activity, he headed the establishment of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation . This was followed by a six-month research stay at the University of California, Berkeley . Gustav Heinemann's offer to succeed Bruno Heusinger as President of the Federal Court of Justice was rejected by Raiser and, from 1968, he assumed the position of Rector of the University of Tübingen, which he held until September 30, 1969. In addition, he was involved in the Protestant church. He was a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) from 1949 to 1973 and its President from 1970 to 1973 .

From 1961 to 1970 he was chairman of the Chamber for Public Responsibility of the EKD. Raiser was one of the authors of the Tübingen Memorandum published on February 24, 1962 , which spoke out against nuclear armament in the Federal Republic and in favor of the recognition of the Oder-Neisse border . Under his chairmanship, the controversial EKD memorandum The situation of the expellees and the relationship of the German people to its eastern neighbors was published in 1965 , which intended to relate the victims of the expellees to the guilt of the German people in the war of conquest and extermination.

In 1971 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy .

Publications (selection)

  • The effects of bill of exchange declarations in private international law. de Gruyter, Berlin 1931 ( contributions to foreign and international private law. Volume 4).
  • The law of general terms and conditions. 1st edition. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1935.
  • Legal issues of co-determination. Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne 1954 ( Working Group for Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 20).
  • Textbook of civil law - 3. Property law. 10th edition. 1957
  • Real entitlements. Mohr, Tübingen 1961 ( Tübingen jurisprudential treatises. Volume 1).
  • On the Right Use of Freedom: Speeches for the award of the First Theodor Heuss Prize in 1965. Wunderlich, Tübingen 1965.

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Law Faculty of the University of Tübingen (ed.): Ludwig Raiser to the memory: Speeches, held on the occasion of d. Academ. Commemoration on November 20, 1980, for Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. phil. hc D. theol. Ludwig Raiser (died June 13, 1980). Attempto-Verlag, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-921552-20-6 ( Tübinger Universitätsreden. Volume 30).
  • Obituary in: FAZ , June 18, 1980
  • Thomas Raiser :  Raiser, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 123 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Bälz: Ludwig Raiser: A life report In: Law Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Ed.): On the 100th birthday of Professor Dr. Dr. hc Ludwig Raiser: (27.10.1904 - 13.06.1980); Symposium of the Tübingen Law Faculty on December 3, 2004. Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen 2005, ISSN  0564-4283 , p. 13
  2. ↑ a b Short biography at the DFG
  3. ↑ Stefan Grundmann , Karl Riesenhuber (Ed.): German-speaking civil law teachers of the 20th century in reports from their students: a history of ideas in individual presentations. de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89949-456-3 (Volume 1) p. 288
  4. ↑ Anna-Maria von Lösch: The naked spirit: The law faculty of the Berlin University in the upheaval of 1933. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-16-147245-4 . ( Contributions to the legal history of the 20th century. Volume 26) p. 339
  5. ↑ Ludwig Raiser 60 years. In: Die Zeit , No. 44/1964
  6. ↑ Ulrich Bälz : Ludwig Raiser: A life report In: Law Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Ed.): On the 100th birthday of Professor Dr. Dr. hc Ludwig Raiser: (27.10.1904 - 13.06.1980); Symposium of the Tübingen Law Faculty on December 3, 2004. Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen 2005, ISSN  0564-4283 , p. 18
  7. ↑ Press release on the EKD homepage
  8. ^ Raiser, Ludwig - FOR 1765 Public - DARIAH Wiki. In: wiki.de.dariah.eu. Retrieved September 14, 2016 .
  9. ^ So Martin Greschat: Protestantism in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-2000 . Leipzig 2011. pp. 80-85
  10. ↑ You don't say that as a good German . Der Spiegel, November 17, 1965
  11. ↑ In 1965 “Ostdenkschrift” appeared . ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ekd.de, September 30, 2005. Retrieved November 3, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekd.de
  12. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Raiser, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, professor of civil, commercial and economic law
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1980
Place of death Tübingen