Otto Mühl

This article describes the legal scholar Otto Mühl. For the artist, see Otto Muehl .

Otto Mühl (born October 10, 1911 in Görlitz ; † November 17, 2006 in Mainz ) was a German legal scholar , judge at the Federal Administrative Court and university lecturer.

life and work

From 1931 Mühl studied law at the University of Breslau , where he passed his first state examination in law in 1936. He then did his legal clerkship in Breslau, which he finished in September 1939 with the second state examination. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP and did military service from 1939 until the end of the war in 1945. From October 1946 Mühl worked as a judge at the Göttingen Regional Court . At the same time he was doing his doctorate at the University of Göttingen under the supervision of Ludwig Raiser . In May 1947, Muehl from the University of Göttingen with Scripture was moral and meritocracy Dr. iur. PhD. In 1949 he was promoted to the regional judge at the Göttingen regional court. In 1952 he moved to the Higher Regional Court of Celle as a higher regional judge , where he worked until 1961. From October 1961 to September 1966, Mühl was a judge at the Federal Administrative Court . In the winter semester of 1966/67, he switched to the full professorship for civil law, commercial, economic and procedural law at the University of Mainz . In April 1967 he also became director of the Law and Economics Department - Law Department of the University of Mainz. In 1973/74 he was also dean of the law and economics faculty in Mainz. In 1980 Mühl retired.

Mühl's academic research focus was primarily on procedural law and equally on civil, criminal and administrative procedural law.

Fonts (selection)

• Immorality and performance business . University Press, Breslau 1947 (dissertation).
• The doctrine of expert opinion and judgment: with special consideration of the connection between substantive law and procedural law . Metzner, Frankfurt am Main 1970.

Web links

• Mühl in the Mainz professor catalog