Philipp Möhring

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Philipp Möhring (born September 4, 1900 in Berlin ; † November 16, 1975 in Baden-Baden ) was a lawyer, author and attorney at the Federal Court of Justice .

Life

Möhring was the son of a publisher. He took part in the First World War as a volunteer (most recently Fahnenjunker). After graduating from the Humanistic Gymnasium in Berlin-Friedenau, he began studying law at the University of Berlin in the winter semester of 1918. There he belonged to the Berlin fraternity of Franconia . Other places of study were Jena and Freiburg. After the state examination he was in October 1921, the thesis The physical examination in criminal proceedings and for using the results to Dr. jur. PhD at the University of Jena. He was admitted to the Berlin bar in 1925 after having passed both exams with the grade “very good”. In the same year he married.

The doctor of law, honorary doctorate in economics, worked as a law teacher at the business school in Berlin and the universities in Hamburg , Cologne, Bonn , Heidelberg and Salzburg , and as honorary professor in Cologne, Heidelberg and Salzburg . After 1933 he found a colleague who had been forced out of the judicial profession because of his Jewish wife, a job as an employee in his law firm, which he had founded after he had left the law firm of his Jewish senior partners (including Bruno Marwitz ). During the Nazi era, he acted as a lawyer for the Stagma and represented Germany in the international umbrella organization of collecting societies, Cisac .

During the Second World War he was first drafted as a non-commissioned officer with the railway pioneers, but then assigned to the Ministry of Aviation. He was then appointed trustee of a company belonging to the Rothschild property, but was dismissed after a while. Shortly before the war, he was appointed as Judge Advocate for Bamberg added. In 1948 he was admitted to the British Zone Supreme Court attorney . At Commerzbank he was initially legal advisor and from 1952 to 1958 chairman of the supervisory board of the disengaged Commerz- und Creditbank AG. From 1961 to 1963 he was acting director of the Institute for Banking Law at the University of Cologne . Since October 2, 1950 he worked as a lawyer at the Federal Court of Justice ; the firm was and is being continued by Rudolf Nirk and Ekkehart Schott .

Philipp Möhring is the father of the journalist Rubina Möhring .

Publications

Möhring is considered a very versatile lawyer. The commentary on copyright by Marwitz-Möhring (1929), the patent law commentary Klauer-Möhring published in 1937 (in the first and second edition together with the then President of the Reich Patent Office Georg Klauer , last in 1971 in the third edition), and the comment based on Käte Nicolini should be emphasized on the Copyright Act (1970, third edition 2015, edited by Hartwig Ahlberg and Horst-Peter Götting), a commentary on the Banking Act continued by Rudolf Nirk (1964; 9th edition 1992) and in particular the reference work on the case law of the Federal Court of Justice Lindenmaier-Möhring , which he founded together with Fritz Lindenmaier (today changed as LMK). The list of publications lists 70 journal articles, 32 articles in compilations and commemorative publications , 20 published lectures and 29 short essays.

Awards

Philipp Möhring was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with a Star in 1970 .

literature

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Sources and individual references

  • Festschrift for the 75th birthday
  1. ^ Paul Weinrowsky: History of the Berlin fraternity Franconia . Berlin 1928.
  2. ↑ For the cooperation see Möhring in the foreword in: Möhring / Niccolini, UrhG , 1970; for Marwitz s. the obituary in Copyright 5 (1940), 354 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Möhring, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1975
Place of death Baden-Baden