Othmar Jauernig

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Othmar Jauernig (born May 12, 1927 in Eisenach ; † April 7, 2014 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German lawyer . From 1979 he was the editor of a well-known short commentary on the German Civil Code , which lawyers often simply refer to as Jauernig .

Life

Othmar Jauernig was born in Eisenach in 1927 as the son of the church council Reinhold Jauernig and his wife Elise. After attending elementary school in Gera from 1933, he was first there at the humanistic Rutheneum and from 1939 at the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar . Due to the war - Jauernig became an air force helper , joined the Reich Labor Service and finally the Wehrmacht - he did not complete his school career. That is why he completed a transition course in Jena in 1946 for admission to university, which he passed in April. He studied in Frankfurt jurisprudence . In 1950 he passed his legal traineeship exam. He was in Frankfurt in early 1953 Gerhard Schiedermair with the thesis "The defense of estoppel, particularly Verwirkungseinwand, in the legal and guilt successor and third parties" summa cum laude doctorate .

From 1961 (initially as an associate professor) to 1995, Jauernig held the chair for civil law and procedural law at the Law Faculty of Heidelberg University . In 1995 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Law Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden "in recognition of his outstanding academic achievements for the development of civil law and civil procedural law as well as his services to founding the Faculty of Law at the Technical University of Dresden ".

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in: Badische Zeitung (accessed on April 11, 2014); Rolf Stürner, obituary, Juristen-Zeitung 2014, 860.
  2. ^ NJW 1997, 1354
  3. ^ Honorary doctorates from TUD
personal data
SURNAME Jauernig, Othmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2014
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau