Martin Löhnig

Martin Löhnig (born February 23, 1971 in Nuremberg ) is a German legal scholar and professor of civil law , German and European legal history and canon law .

Life

After studying law in Regensburg , Martin Löhnig initially worked as a tutor before becoming an assistant at the University of Regensburg, where he co-founded the REX university tutorial. In 2001 he received his doctorate from the University of Regensburg with a dissertation on legal history and doctrine of the law of error. In 2006 he completed his habilitation at the University of Regensburg with Hans-Jürgen Becker and Dieter Schwab with a thesis on conflicts of interest in fiduciary relationships, which is also historical and dogmatic. In 2006 he was appointed to a W3 professorship for civil law, legal history and canon law at the University of Konstanz as the successor to Hans-Wolfgang Strätz , which he had represented since autumn 2005. In the 2008/2009 winter semester, he accepted an offer at the University of Regensburg for the W3 chair for civil law, German and European legal history and church law. He has held visiting professorships at various European universities; since 2009 he has been visiting professor at the University of St. Gallen . In 2011 he turned down an offer for a W3 professorship at the University of Bayreuth (successor to Diethelm Klippel). From October 2009 to October 2012, Martin Löhnig was Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Law and, in this role, set up the Regensburg coaching center REGINA and the network of foreign lawyers related to the University of Regensburg (NAJUR).

activity

After Martin Löhnig had mainly worked on the history of dogma in his two scientific qualification theses , after his call to the University of Konstanz he turned more to legal history topics with general historical reference and names his research focus as the legal history of modernity from a transdisciplinary perspective. At the excellence cluster EXC16 Cultural Foundations of Integration he was involved in a research project Legal Unity Despite Legal Binding? involved. He also deals with the legal history of the post-war period; the German Research Foundation (DFG) sponsored his project denazification of National Socialist law . He is the founding editor of the magazine Rechtskultur and co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte (ZNR). Further research projects, whose conferences are supported by the DFG, deal with the history of the effects of the General German Commercial Code of 1861, the development of Central European law in the interwar period and the development of civil law in the post-bourgeois era. Martin Löhnig is also involved as a co-applicant in the DFG Graduate College 2337/1 "Metropolität in der Vormoderne". In the area of ​​applicable law, Martin Löhnig works intensively in the areas of family and inheritance law; In these fields he has published numerous textbooks, specialist books, commentaries and articles in specialist journals. He is editor of the Soergel volumes on family and inheritance law , co-editor of the journal for the entire family law (FamRZ) and editor of the case law on family and inheritance law in the legal worksheets. He is also involved in the BMJV project "Digital Heritage (DErbe)".

Honors

In 2006, Martin Löhnig was awarded the Habilitation Prize of the University of Regensburg for his habilitation thesis Treuhand - Perception of Interests and Conflicts of Interest . In 2007, Martin Löhnig and Christoph Althammer were awarded the Bavarian Prize for Good Teaching. In 2008 the University of Konstanz awarded him a free space of creativity . In 2012 he received an award from the “Germany - Land of Ideas” foundation for the REGINA coaching center he founded.

student

Martin Löhnig has so far had three habilitation students: Philipp S. Fischinger (University of Mannheim), Saskia Lettmaier (University of Kiel) and Stephan Wagner (private lecturer).

Works (selection)

• Error about the characteristics of the contract partner (dissertation), Bielefeld (Gieseking) 2001
• Treuhand - protection of interests and conflicts of interest (habilitation thesis), Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck, Ius Privatum) 2006
• The Justice as Legislature - On the Application of National Socialist Law in the Post-War Period, Regenstauf (Edition Legal Culture) 2010
• Fragmented Families - Breaks of a Social Form in Modernity, Bielefeld (transcript) 2010 (co-editor: Inge Kroppenberg )
• Legal standardization through case law? On the case law of the Reichsgericht 1879–1899, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2012
• Case training in civil law, 6th edition, Heidelberg (CF Müller) 2016 (co-author Dieter Schwab )
• Case training in civil law 2, 1st edition, Heidelberg (CF Müller) 2008
• Introduction to civil law, 20th edition, Heidelberg (CF Müller) 2016 (co-author Dieter Schwab )
• Cases on family and inheritance law, 3rd edition, Munich (CH Beck) 2015
• Cases on property law, 4th edition, Munich (CH Beck) 2015 (co-author Jens Koch )
• Factual living community, Staudinger, Commentary on the Civil Code, Berlin (DeGruyter-Sellier), edited 2015

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Löhnig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Internet presence of the chair
• Martin Löhnig on Academia.edu (with portrait)