Philipp Thormann

Philipp Thormann (born August 3, 1874 in Bern , † March 26, 1960 ibid) was a Swiss legal scholar .

Life

The son of an engineer studied law at the universities of Neuchâtel , Bern , Munich and Berlin and passed the state examination as Bernese advocate in 1897 . In 1898 he received his doctorate in Bern. After working as a clerk at the Chamber Bernese High Court Thormann was 1903 Extraordinary and 1907 to full professor of criminal law , criminal procedure called and encyclopedia of law at the University of Bern. He also worked from 1907 to 1937 as a substitute for the Bernese Higher Court. In the academic years 1918/19 and 1933/34 Thormann was Rector of the University of Bern . In 1944 he retired.

From 1910, Philipp Thormann was married to Anna von Büren, daughter of the administrator Franz von Büren. The architect, frontist and civic community president Georges Thormann was their son.

Fonts (selection)

• Judgment and procedural order with special consideration of Bernese civil procedural law. Stämpfli, Bern 1899 (dissertation).
• with Alfred von Overbeck : The Swiss Criminal Code. 3 volumes. Schulthess, Zurich 1940–1943 ( commentary ).

literature

• Journal of the Bern Lawyers' Association. Vol. 96 (1960), pp. 169-172.
• Thormann, Philipp. In: The lecturers of the Bern University of Applied Sciences 1528–1984. University of Bern, Bern 1984, No. 3.1.043 ( online ).

Web links

• Hans Braun: Thormann, Philipp. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .