Otto Schreiber (lawyer)

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Otto Schreiber (born May 11, 1882 in Berlin , † January 24, 1929 in Königsberg ) was a German law scholar and university professor .

Life

Otto Schreiber's father was the Prussian general and surveying expert Oskar Schreiber , his mother Marie was a daughter of the lawyer and professor Otto Mejer . Schreiber studied law in Göttingen and Freiburg im Breisgau , received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1907 and completed his habilitation there in 1909. He worked on German legal history , civil law and commercial law , but also taught social security law . In 1915 the University of Göttingen appointed him titular professor . In the same year Schreiber came back wounded from the war effort and worked in the war ministry. In April 1917 he became professor and first director of studies at the Prince Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences in Detmold . After the revolution in November 1918 , he was deposed there. In 1919 Schreiber was head of the Reich Secretariat of the German Democratic Party . In 1920 he went to the Faculty of Law at the University of Königsberg as a full professor of legal history , commercial law and civil law. In 1925 he founded the Institute for Aviation Law there . In 1928 he spent a longer stay in North America, together with his second wife, the writer Ilse Schreiber , geb. God Forrest. In early 1929 Otto Schreiber died in Königsberg after a brief illness. The institute he founded has its successor in the Institute for Air and Space Law at the University of Cologne .

Works

  • The history of the inheritance in the city of Strasbourg in Alsace. Winter, Heidelberg 1909.
  • Mixed contracts in the Reichsschuldrecht. In: Jhering's yearbooks. Vol. 60 (1912), pp. 106-228 ( digitized version ).
  • The will of Prince Wolfgang von Anhalt (August 25, 1565). Winter, Heidelberg 1913.
  • (Ed.) The Reichsgerichtspraxis in German legal life. Establishment of the law faculties for the 50th anniversary of the Reichsgericht (1st October 1929). 6 volumes. Keip, Berlin / Leipzig 1929.

literature

  • Alexander Beck: Obituary Otto Schreiber. In: Legal weekly . 1929, p. 897 f.
  • Carsten Doerfert: The Fürst Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences. Attempt and failure of a university in Detmold (1916–1924). Bielefeld 2016, pp. 28 ff., 70 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Air and Space Law: History (1/6). In: www.uni-koeln.de. Retrieved July 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Schreiber, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1929
Place of death Koenigsberg