Otto Wendt (legal scholar)

Otto Heinrich Gustav Wendt , von Wendt from 1903, (born March 27, 1846 in Rostock , † August 30, 1911 in Tübingen ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Otto (von) Wendt was the son of the Rostock high school teacher Heinrich Wendt (born November 16, 1808 in Rostock, † August 25, 1868 in Rostock- Warnemünde ). He had attended the school and the large city school in Rostock, passed his Abitur there on Easter 1864 and on April 15, 1864 started studying law at the University of Rostock . He continued this in the winter semester of 1865/66 at the University of Munich and in the summer semester of 1866 at the University of Leipzig . Back in his Mecklenburg homeland, he completed a year of military service in 1867. He then prepared for his doctorate, which took place in Rostock on October 24, 1869 and worked as a lawyer in Rostock from 1869. Wendt was drafted as a non-commissioned officer at the outbreak of the Franco-German War in 1870/71 and was dismissed as a lieutenant after the end of the war. He was also decorated with the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross 2nd Class .

In 1872 he passed the judge's examination in Rostock and became a councilor there in the same year. On March 31, 1873 he became a full professor of Roman law at the University of Gießen and was given the task of a higher appellate judge. On April 1, 1876, he moved to the University of Jena as a full professor of Roman law, civil procedural law and commercial law , where he was also a judge of higher appeal until the court of appeal was dissolved on September 30, 1879. In addition, he participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Salana in the winter semester of 1880 . For his services in the Thuringian climes he received the ducal Saxon-Ernestine house order and received the command of the Saxon-Weimar-Eisenachian house order from the white falcon .

Another change on April 1, 1893, took him to the University of Tübingen as professor of Roman law and civil procedural law . In Tübingen he became deputy chairman of the judicial examination commission in 1902, worked as rector of the Alma Mater in 1903/04 and from 1904 worked as chairman of the literary chamber of experts for Württemberg, Baden and Hesse. In addition, from 1908 he represented the university in the first Württemberg chamber. There was also no lack of honors in Tübingen. He received the Cross of Honor of the 1903 Württembergischen Kronordens , combined with the personal title of nobility ( ennoblement ), in the same year and in 1910, the Commander of the Friedrich Order . The legal dogmatist Wendt wrote several articles in Rudolf von Jhering's yearbooks on the dogmatics of civil law and has been the editor of the archive for civilist practice since his time in Tübingen . He died of a stomach ailment.

family

Wendt married on April 17, 1874 in Rostock with Klara Pries (* May 8, 1850 in Rostock; † October 29, 1908 in Tübingen), the daughter of the state syndic in Rostock Dr. Joachim Heinrich Priest (* 1819 in Rostock; † 1893 ibid.) And his wife Helene Eggers (* 1824 in Rostock; † 1898 ibid.). Children grew out of marriage. We know of these:

• Hedwig Wendt (born April 21, 1875 in Gießen) married. with Hans Lux (born January 31, 1874 in Ostrowo / Posen)
• Joachim Heinrich Wendt (born September 17, 1880 in Jena; † 1885 ibid.)
• Hans Wendt (born July 27, 1876 in Jena) became captain, married. with Lotte Credner (born August 14, 1886 in Greifswald), the daughter of the professor in Greifswald and secret councilor (Georg) Rudolf Credner and Helene Ziervogel.
• Susanne von Wendt (* 1882 in Jena; † 1883 ibid.)
• Klara Helene (Leni) Wendt (* July 10, 1884 in Jena; † July 17, 1972 in Lärz) married on June 17, 1907 in Tübingen with the professor of medicine in Rostock Hans (Heinrich) Curschmann (* August 14, 1875 in Berlin; † March 1, 1950 in Rostock)
• Georg Wendt (born May 15, 1886 in Jena)

Works (selection)

• The doctrine of the conditional legal transaction. Erlangen 1872 ( digitized version ).
• The conditional right of claim. Rostock 1873.
• Right of remorse and bondage in legal transactions. 2 volumes. Erlangen 1878–1879.
• The law of the thumb or property defense and persecution. Jena 1883.
• Textbook of the Pandects. Jena 1888.
• The general right of instruction. Jena 1895.
• Failure to do so in civil law. Tubingen 1901.
• About the language of the law. Speech given on February 25th in the ballroom of the University of Tübingen. Tubingen 1904.
• The exeptio doli generalis in today's law or good faith in the law of obligations. Tübingen 1906 (individual print from the archive for civilist practice. Vol. 100, 1906).
• Possession and Will to Own. Giessen 1907.

literature

• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 1006 .
• M. Rümelin: In memory of Otto Wendt. In: Heck, Rietschel, Rümelin: Archives for civilistic practice. Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen, 1912, Vol. 108, pp. 3-39 ( online ).
• Hermann A. Ludwig Degner: Who is it? Our contemporaries. Contemporary Lexicon. Degner, Leipzig, 1908, 3rd edition, p. 485.
• O. Geib: Otto Wendt †. In: German legal journal. Otto Liebmann, Berlin, 1911, Vol. 16, Sp. 1134-1136 ( online ).
• Georg Lehnert, Hermann Haupt: Chronicle of the University of Giessen 1607 to 1907. Alfred Töpelmann, Giessen, 1907.
• Ernst Pilz: Lecturer album of the University of Jena, 1858 to 1908. Neuenhahn, Jena, 1908, p. 20.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matriculation on April 26, 1866. The register of the University of Leipzig: Part III - The years 1863 to 1876, ed. by Jens Blecher and Gerald Wiemers, Weimar 2008, p. 57.
2. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1907, p. 37.

Web links

• Works by and about Otto Wendt  in the German Digital Library
• Literature about Otto von Wendt in the state bibliography MV
• Genalogielink
• Registration in Rostock