Otto Sandrock

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Otto Sandrock (born January 5, 1930 in Sontra , Rotenburg (Fulda) district , Hesse-Nassau province ; † March 15, 2017 ) was a German legal scholar who mainly taught in the fields of national and international business law at home and abroad Has.

Otto Sandrock's grave in the Münster Central Cemetery.

Life

Sandrock studied law at the Georg-August University of Göttingen , the University of Lyon and the Yale University before he did his doctorate again in Göttingen under Günther Beitzke until 1956 with a thesis on membership rights in corporations in international private law . After legal clerkship , 2nd state examination and a brief activity at the Foreign Office - including an attaché exam - he embarked on a university career and completed his habilitation in 1965 with the work “Basic Concepts of the Law against Restraints of Competition” at the University of Bonn . From 1967 to 1980 he held the chair for civil law , commercial and economic law , international private law and comparative law at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1980 he was appointed to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität ( Münster ) and was co-director of the Institute for International Business Law , which he co-founded, and remained so until his retirement in 1995. After retiring, he became a partner in the law firm Hölters & Elsing and as a lawyer at Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court .

Sandrock was married and the father of two daughters.

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The main focus of Sandrock's research was international trade and business law. The overlapping theory he developed had a great influence on European company law, which displaced the seat theory and foundation theory and which the ECJ followed and continued with, beginning with the Centros decision .

Fonts

  • Basic terms of the Act against Restraints of Competition , XV, p. 556, Munich. 1968.
  • Handbook of International Contract Design , A Guide for the Conclusion of Contracts in International Business Transactions, Vol. I: P. I - XXIII, 1 - 635, Vol. II: P. I - XIX, 636 - 1288, Heidelberg 1980,
  • Hans Jürgen Sonnenberger (Ed.): Proposals and reports on the reform of European and German international company law , 6 25 S., Tübingen 2007.
  • International Legal Limits of State Legislation , Journal for Comparative Jurisprudence Vol. 115 (2016) pp. 1–94

honors and awards

  • Ernst C. Stiefel et al. (Ed.), Iusto Iure, Festgabe for Otto Sandrock on his 65th birthday, Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 3-8005-1137-1
  • Klaus Peter Berger et al. (Ed.), Festschrift for Otto Sandrock on his 70th birthday, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8005-1242-4
  • Werner F. Ebke et al. (Ed.), German business law under the influence of US law, Frankfurt a. M. 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-8005-1523-3 ) (Symposium on the 80th birthday of Otto Sandrock)
  • In 2014, he (together with Bernhard GroBfeld) was dedicated a celebratory donation containing a tribute to his person from Werner Ebke and essays by several East Asian and one South African colleagues.
  • Koresuke Yamauchi et al. (Ed.), Milestones in Private and Commercial International Law, Tokyo 2014 ( ISBN 978-4-8057-0591-9 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mourning for Otto Sandrock - Law Faculty WWU Münster. WWU Münster , March 21, 2017, accessed on August 10, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Joachim Gruber : Obituary for Otto Sandrock . In: Journal for International Business Law . 2017, p. 144 .
personal data
SURNAME Sandrock, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Sontra , Rotenburg district , Hessen-Nassau
DATE OF DEATH 15th March 2017