Peter Rummel (lawyer)

Peter Rummel (born October 2, 1940 in Duisburg ) is an Austrian legal scholar , professor emeritus at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and author of several standard legal works. He lives in Vienna .

Life

After attending school in Meckenheim (Rhineland) and Rheinbach and graduating from high school , Peter Rummel began studying law and economics at the University of Bonn in 1959 . In 1964, he put in Cologne the First State Exam from, was in Bonn assistant to Franz Bydlinski and received his doctorate there in 1967 from the law (title of 1968 published thesis : "compensation for accumulated emissions: for loss allocation in tort and intervention Liability").

After completing his doctorate, he followed Franz Bydlinski as a research assistant at the University of Vienna , where he received his habilitation in 1970 (title of the habilitation thesis published in 1972: "Contract interpretation according to the traffic custom"). On October 1, 1970 he was appointed full professor for civil law at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz . On the occasion of his appointment as professor, he was granted Austrian citizenship.

Peter Rummel's main areas of work are contract law, compensation and enrichment law, environmental law, expropriation law, public procurement law and banking law. In 1983 the first edition of the “Commentary on the General Civil Code” appeared in two volumes under Rummel's editorship, which has since influenced Austrian legal practice like no other work. In the private law area there is hardly a decision by the Supreme Court in which this work is not cited. Since 1989 Peter Rummel has been editor of the “Juristische Blätter” (JBl), one of the largest Austrian legal journals.

From 1978 to 1980 Peter Rummel was dean of the law faculty of Johannes Kepler University, from 1989/90 he was visiting professor at the Institute for Environmental and Technology Law at the University of Trier, from 2000 to 2006 he was a member of the extended board of the civil law teachers' association (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).

In numerous well-known cases, Rummel acted as an expert or referee. From 2005 to 2006 he was chairman of the court of arbitration that decided on the restitution of the five Klimt paintings ( Adele Bloch-Bauer I , Adele Bloch-Bauer II , Apfelbaum , Buchenwald / Birkenwald and houses in Unterach am Attersee ) from Maria Altmann .

In the documentary Die Affäre Klimt (OT: Stealing Klimt , Great Britain, 2006, 88 min., Book: Martin Smith, director: Jane Chablani, production: Films of Record), Rummel can be seen at the announcement of the award.

Peter Rummel retired on October 1st, 2009 . On the occasion of his retirement, the Peter Rummel Study Fund was founded to promote talented students in the field of civil law at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

His son is the cellist Martin Rummel .

Essential writings

• Compensation claims in the case of total immissions: for the attribution of damage in the case of tort and interference liability . Bonn 1968.
• Contract interpretation according to the custom . Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-214-06909-8 .
• with Josef Schlager: Compensation for expropriation, especially for commercial properties . Signum-Verlag, 1981.
• as editor: Commentary on the General Civil Code . Manz-Verlag, Vienna 1983.
• with Ferdinand Kerschner: Cases and solutions to civil law for beginners . Manz-Verlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-214-14797-8 .
• For a federal expropriation law . Trauner-Verlag, 1984.
• with Otto Gurtner and Wolfgang Sagl: Compensation for expropriation in agriculture and forestry . Vienna 1984.
• The private legal capacity of universities . Vienna 1987.
• On the status and development of product liability in Austria. Vienna 1987.
• with Ferdinand Kerschner: Environmental Liability in Private Law: Considerations on Legal Dogmatics and Legal Policy . Vienna 1991.
• with Karl Korinek and Dietmar Pauger: Manual of expropriation law . Springer-Verlag, Vienna 1994, ISBN 0-387-82509-6 .
• For a new federal expropriation law . Vienna 1995.
• with Ludwig Scharinger : There is strength and security in the network . Linz 1996.
• The civil law consequences of European public procurement law . Vienna 2003.

Awards

• Silver medal of the state of Upper Austria
• Science Medal of the City of Linz
• Medium-sized business award from the "Rudolf Trauner Foundation"
• Honorary member of the main association of sworn and court-certified experts
• 1991 Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria
• 2010 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class

Individual evidence

1. ^ Legal papers. Springer Verlag, Vienna / New-York, ISSN  0022-6912 . (Founded in 1878)
2. ↑ Klimt is to be returned. (No longer available online.) In: Salzburger Nachrichten. January 17, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 24, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ Table of contents by arte
4. ↑ Peter Rummel Study Fund founded. (No longer available online.) Johannes Kepler University Linz, October 1, 2009, archived from the original on March 8, 2014 ; Retrieved December 24, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Website of the Peter Rummel Study Fund
• List of publications by Peter Rummel in the research documentation of the Johannes Kepler University