Peter Bassenge

Peter Bassenge (born February 9, 1934 in Kiel ) is a German legal scholar and judge . In legal circles it is especially for his work on the Civil Code - comment Palandt known.

Life

After his Abitur, which he passed in 1954 at the boarding school Schloss Plön , Bassenge studied law in Bonn and Munich . He passed the first state examination in law in 1958 before the Cologne Judicial Examination Office. He spent his legal traineeship in Schleswig-Holstein again . He passed the second state examination in Hamburg in 1962 . In the meantime he received his doctorate in Bonn in 1962 with a dissertation on criminal law supervised by Hans Welzel on the subject of "The general concept of danger under criminal law and its application in Part 2 of the Criminal Code and in the ancillary criminal law".

In 1963 he began his legal career as a court assessor in Lübeck. In 1969 he became a district judge there. In 1974 he was appointed presiding judge at the Lübeck Regional Court. At first he was chairman of a criminal chamber there. Ten years later, he took over the chairmanship of the Civil Law Board of Appeal . Until his retirement in 1999, he was also responsible for voluntary jurisdiction . He was already entrusted with this area of ​​law from 1970 to 1974 as a member of the commission formed by the Federal Ministry of Justice for the reform of the voluntary jurisdiction. The intensive occupation with this area of ​​law finally led to his first publication of a commentary on the FGG in 1973 .

Theodor Keidel got to know him while working on his FGG commentary . He finally proposed him as the successor to Max Degenhart, who died in 1974, for comment in the Palandt. This is how Bassenge came into the circle of Palandt commentators and, since the 35th edition published in 1976, has mainly commented on the paragraphs of property law . With the 75th edition, he stopped working as a commentator in 2016.

In 1983, Bassenge, as chairman of the jury chamber at the Lübeck Regional Court, led the proceedings against Marianne Bachmeier , who had shot her daughter Anna's murderer in the trial against him.

The surname Bassenge is of Huguenot origin and is pronounced in French with the appropriate nasal sound.

Publications (selection)

• Palandt - Civil Code . CH Beck, 69th edition, 2010. ISBN 978-3-406-59488-5
• Law on the Procedure in Family Matters and in Matters of Voluntary Jurisdiction, Rechtspflegergesetz - Commentary. Müller, Heidelberg, 2009, 12th, completely revised. and exp. Edition ISBN 978-3-8114-3607-7
• Neighbor law in Schleswig-Holstein - comment. Kohlhammer, 12th, revised. and exp. Edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-555-01443-2

literature

• Uwe Diederichsen : Peter Bassenge on his 70th birthday. In: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 2004, p. 433.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Bassenge in the catalog of the German National Library