Peter Oestmann

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Peter Oestmann (born April 9, 1967 in Stolzenau ) is a German legal historian and university lecturer. He teaches private law and legal history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University .

life and work

Peter Oestmann studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1987 to 1992 . During this time he worked from 1988 to 1994 as an employee at the chair for German legal history and civil law there. From 1995 to 1997 he completed his legal clerkship in Lübeck . In 1996 he received his doctorate in Göttingen (awarded the Friedrich-Spee-Förderpreis 1997), in 2002 the habilitation in Frankfurt am Main with Joachim Rückert . From 1994 to 1995 and again from 1997 to 2002 he was a member of the Graduate College on European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main.

In 2003 Oestmann was appointed professor for legal history and private law at the University of Bern . Since 2004 he has been Professor of Civil Law and German Legal History at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and one of the directors of the Institute for Legal History. He turned down calls to the Universities of Kiel (2007) and Frankfurt am Main (2011). Oestmann is one of the main applicants in the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modernity and Modernity” at the University of Münster and since 2012 a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 2014 he was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

Peter Oestmann is co-editor of the Savigny Foundation's journal for legal history , the journal for historical research and the series of sources and research on the highest jurisdiction in the Old Kingdom . In his Göttingen dissertation, he worked on 255 Reich Chamber Court trials from 1509 to 1788 with references to the witchcraft rule. In his work he comes to the conclusion that the "RKG has made considerable merit in curbing the German witch trials".

Fonts (selection)

  • Witch trials at the Reich Chamber of Commerce (= sources and research on the highest jurisdiction in the Old Reich. Vol. 31). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1997, ISBN 3-412-01597-0 .
  • Diversity of law in court. Application of law and particular law in the Old Kingdom (= jurisprudence. Materials and studies. Vol. 18). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-465-03215-1 .
  • From the files of the Reich Chamber of Commerce. Legal problems in the old empire. Kovac, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-8300-1436-8 .
  • A civil case at the Reich Chamber of Commerce. Edition of a court file from the 18th century (= sources and research on the highest jurisdiction in the Old Kingdom. Vol. 55). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20246-0 .
  • Between strict form and cheapness. Research on the premodern civil process (= sources and research on the highest jurisdiction in the Old Kingdom. Vol. 56). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20324-5 .
  • Spiritual and secular dishes in the Old Kingdom. Jurisdiction disputes and court cases (= sources and research on the highest jurisdiction in the Old Kingdom. Vol. 61). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-412-20865-3 .
  • with Wilfried Reininghaus : The files of the Reich Chamber Court. Key to premodern history (= publications of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives. Vol. 44). State Archives North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-932892-31-8 .
  • Paths to Legal History: Jurisdiction and Procedure. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-8252-4295-4 .

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Remarks

  1. See the review by Jürgen Weitzel in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Germanistische Department 116, 1999, pp. 611–614.
  2. ^ Peter Oestmann: witch trials at the Reich Chamber of Commerce. Cologne et al. 1997, p. 515.