Paul Tuesday

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Paul Tuesday (born May 17, 1885 in Berlin ; † January 27, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen ) was a German legal scholar and lawyer .

Life

Tuesday was born on May 17, 1885 as the son of a lawyer and notary in Berlin. He passed his Abitur in 1907 and then studied law and political science in Berlin, Strasbourg and Heidelberg. With a dissertation for enforcement in accordance with Roman law at Ernst Immanuel Bekker he was in 1908 at the University of Heidelberg to the Dr. iur. PhD.

In addition to his work as a lawyer in Berlin, Tuesday was active in law. On the one hand, he published numerous specialist articles on film and theater law . At the time he was referred to as “connoisseur and expert” in these areas. In the field of film law, he was one of the pioneers in German law. On the other hand, as one of three editors of the “Archive for Copyright, Film and Theater Law” (UFITA) founded in 1928, he was jointly responsible for looking after one of the most important journals in the field of intellectual property law in German-speaking countries up to and including 1932 . Tuesday called himself the "founder" of UFITA.

As a result of the National Socialists' seizure of power , Tuesday was dismissed from his position at UFITA due to his “Jewish” origins. Of the original three editors, only the Leipzig lawyer and copyright specialist Willy Hoffmann remained. Tuesday emigrated to the Netherlands , where he worked from 1935 on creating the journal Intellectual Property . Even if this was not very successful commercially, there were 5 volumes that are still of interest today due to their very international orientation and political neutrality.

After the Wehrmacht invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Tuesday fell victim to Nazi persecution. He died single and childless on January 27, 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , to which he was deported from the Westerbork camp on January 11, 1944 .

In 1953, the first volume of a four-volume encyclopedia of “World Copyright” appeared in English, which Tuesday had planned to publish together with HL Pinner , a lawyer who had also fled from Germany . The latter pushed the project forward after the war and published the work. On the title page of the book is the line “Founded by HL Pinner and the late PM Tuesday”.

Works (selection)

  • The legal nature of the pignus in causa iudicati captum. A contribution to the doctrine of foreclosure according to Roman law , Munich 1908 (dissertation).
  • Cinematographic copyright and unfair competition , in: Trademark protection and competition (MuW) 27/28 (1927/1928), 325-330.
  • The employment contract of the film actor and film director , Berlin 1929.
  • Revocation and local police prohibition of a picture strip , in: UFITA 4 (1931), 139-158.
  • Handbook of German Theater, Film, Music and Artist Law , Berlin 1932 (together with Alexander Elster ).

literature

  • Simon Apel, Matthias Wießner: Paul Tuesday (1885-1945) . In: Simon Apel, Louis Pahlow, Matthias Wießner (eds.): Biographisches Handbuch des Intellectual Property , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, pp. 75–77.
  • Manfred Rehbinder , Copyright and Media Law Literature in Emigration. On the work and fate of Paul Tuesday , in: UFITA 2008 / II, 465-478.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno Marwitz , Tuesday, Paul and Alexander Elster: Handbook of German Theater, Film, Music and Artist Law [review], in: UFITA 5 (1932), 232.
  2. ↑ Today “ Archive for Copyright and Media Law ”, s. Manfred Rehbinder, results of a survey on UFITA in 2000 , in: UFITA 2000 / I, 5.
  3. ↑ See also Horst Göppinger , jurists of Jewish descent in the "Third Reich". Disenfranchisement and persecution , 2nd edition, Munich 1990, p. 382.
  4. ^ Pinner (Ed.), World Copyright. An Encyclopedia in Four Volumes. Vol. I, A-Ci , Leyden 1953.
personal data
SURNAME Tuesday, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1945
Place of death Bergen-Belsen