Otto Liebmann (lawyer)

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Otto Liebmann (born April 24, 1865 in Mainz , † July 15, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German publisher of the Jewish faith. In 1890 he founded the Otto Liebmann publishing house, which published the Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung (DJZ) from 1896 . The publisher also founded the series "Kurzkommentare", which was later continued by Verlag CH Beck as "Beck'sche Kurzkommentare "; the best-known short commentary is the Palandt , for which Liebmann did the preparatory work.

Life

Otto Liebmann was born on April 24, 1865 in Mainz as the son of a Jewish grain merchant family and grew up in Frankfurt am Main . He learned the professions of printer and bookseller. At the age of 24, Liebmann founded a publishing house of the same name in Berlin, whose range focused on legal publications. The publisher gained notoriety in particular through the Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung (DJZ), which was founded in 1896 and published by Liebmann himself and three important legal scholars ( Paul Laband , Hermann Staub and Melchior Stenglein ), as well as for the pocket comments, which contain the most important German laws as briefly but comprehensively as possible.

In 1897 Liebmann married Lili Fanny Herxheimer, with whom he had three children. In 1908, the law faculty of Heidelberg University awarded Liebmann an honorary doctorate.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists , the Liebmann had initially welcomed the hostility rose against Jewish people. Liebmann was therefore forced not to hand over his publishing house to his son as planned, but to sell it. With a notarized contract dated December 12, 1933, the CH Beck publishing house acquired the Liebmanns company, including the rights to all of the publisher's works, for 250,000 Reichsmarks, which was below Liebmann's originally intended purchase price of 300,000 Reichsmarks. According to some authors, this was a sale "well below value". In any case, it is clear that the sale "would have been unthinkable without the National Socialist rule". Liebmann himself expressed satisfaction with both the purchase price achieved and the sale to Heinrich Beck, as received correspondence (letter from Otto Liebmann to his long-time authorized signatory Paul Ebel) shows. Because negotiations with several other publishers had previously collapsed. In particular, the acquisition of the pocket comments, which CH Beck from then on sold under the “Beck'sche Kurzkommentare” brand, paid off.

The reference to Liebmann was removed from the works he founded, and his assets were gradually confiscated by German authorities. Liebmann died in 1942 without assets and socially isolated. At his funeral in Berlin, in addition to his two daughters, who were murdered a short time later as part of the deportation to the extermination camps , only his friend Leo Rosenberg was present. Liebmann's son Karl Wilhelm escaped the National Socialist terror after internment in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Ecuador .

Others

In 2017, the Palandt renaming initiative asked Beck-Verlag to rename the Palandt and suggested a. Liebmann as an alternative namesake. Beck-Verlag rejected the request.

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Liebmann (Jurist)  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonas Höltig: Palandt Discussion: Who was Otto Liebmann actually? In: Legal Tribune Online . December 18, 2017 ( lto.de [accessed December 20, 2017]).
  2. ^ Stefan Rebenich: CH BECK 1763–2013. The cultural studies publisher and its history . CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65400-8 , p. 365 .
  3. ↑ Uwe Wesel: 250 years legal publishing house CH Beck 1763–2013. CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65634-7 , p. 116 .
  4. ^ Stefan Rebenich: CH BECK 1763–2013. The cultural studies publisher and its history . CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65400-8 , p. 366 .
  5. ^ Stefan Rebenich: CH BECK 1763–2013. The cultural studies publisher and its history . CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65400-8 , p. 366 .
  6. ^ Stefan Rebenich: CH BECK 1763–2013. The cultural studies publisher and its history . CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65400-8 , p. 368 .
  7. ^ Stefan Rebenich: CH BECK 1763–2013. The cultural studies publisher and its history . CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65400-8 , p. 371 .
  8. ↑ Jonas Höltig : Who was Otto Liebmann actually? In: lto.de. December 18, 2017, accessed May 14, 2018.
  9. ^ Stefan Rebenich: CH BECK 1763–2013. The cultural studies publisher and its history . CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65400-8 , p. 372 .
  10. ↑ Uwe Wesel: 250 years legal publishing house CH Beck 1763–2013. CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65634-7 , p. 134 .
  11. ↑ Uwe Wesel: 250 years legal publishing house CH Beck 1763–2013. CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65634-7 , p. 132 .
  12. ^ Stefan Rebenich: CH BECK 1763–2013. The cultural studies publisher and its history . CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65400-8 , p. 376 .
  13. ^ Hanno Kühnert: The shame of the German jurists . In: The time . April 6, 1990, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 20, 2017]).
  14. ^ Stefan Rebenich: CH BECK 1763–2013. The cultural studies publisher and its history . CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65400-8 , p. 378 .
  15. ^ Stefan Rebenich: CH BECK 1763–2013. The cultural studies publisher and its history . CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65400-8 , p. 377 .
  16. ↑ Alternatives . 2018 ( palandtumbenennen.de [accessed January 5, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Palandt remains Palandt. CH Beck-Verlag will not rename BGB commentary . LTO, November 15, 2017 ( lto.de [accessed January 5, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Liebmann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1942
Place of death Berlin