Manfred Löwisch

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Manfred Löwisch (born March 8, 1937 in Jena ) is a German legal scholar . From 1991 to 1995 he was rector of the University of Freiburg.

biography

Löwisch studied law in Tübingen , Würzburg and Munich from 1955 to 1959 and received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1961. In 1963 and 1964 he worked as a judge in Stuttgart and then as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg , where he also completed his habilitation . Since 1969 he has been a full professor of civil law , business law , labor law and social security law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . At the same time, he was a judge at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court from 1980 to 1989 . From 1991 to 1995 he was rector of the University of Freiburg. In 1991 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto . From 2000–2006 he was deputy chairman of the university council . Since his retirement in 2005 he has worked as a lawyer and head of the research center for university labor law at the University of Freiburg. His focus is on labor law, social security law and civil law. As a legal interpreter and lawyer, Löwisch also represents the employers' side in labor law and collective bargaining issues. Until October 2011 he worked for the Stuttgart law firm Gleiss Lutz .

Löwisch is a member of the CDU and the German University Association . He is married to the former CDU member of the Bundestag Sigrun Löwisch . Both daughter Henriette Löwisch is a journalist and has been heading the German School of Journalism since 2017 , son Georg Löwisch is also a journalist and has been the sole editor-in-chief of taz since September 2015 .

Publications (selection)

  • The position of the producer traders in the law of restraint of competition. Dissertation , University of Tübingen, 1961
  • The protection of offenses against relative rights (= Hamburger Rechtsstudien. Heft 63). De Gruyter, Berlin 1970 (= habilitation thesis , University of Hamburg, 1969).
  • Employment Law. Atzler, Bad Schussenried 1970.
  • (with Hans Galperin ) Commentary on the Works Constitution Act. 2 volumes. 5th, revised edition. Publishing company law and economy, Heidelberg 1975/76.
  • General part of the BGB: Introduction and legal business theory. 6th, completely revised and expanded edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42976-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The court dismisses labor lawyers , Stuttgarter Zeitung, October 17, 2011
  2. ↑ taz.intern: Georg Löwisch is the new editor-in-chief ( Memento of July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Manuel Schubert, taz, July 9, 2015, accessed July 9, 2015

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predecessor Office successor
Christoph Rüchardt Rector of the University of Freiburg
1991–1995 		Wolfgang Hunter
personal data
SURNAME Löwisch, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, university professor and university rector
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena