Reinhold Johow

Reinhold Heinrich Sigismund Johow (born May 30, 1823 in Berlin ; † January 12, 1904 there ) was a German lawyer who played a key role in the creation of important laws .

Career

Reinhold Johow was the son of Carl Johann Sigismund Johow and Christiane Leopoldine Louise Johow, née Bolte. He grew up in Berlin, where he studied theology and philosophy for two semesters at the local university from 1842 and studied law from 1843. Johow entered the Prussian civil service as an auscultator in 1845 . In March 1847 he went to the Berlin Chamber of Commerce as a trainee lawyer . On June 3, 1849 he was appointed assessor at the Berlin Court of Appeal. On June 15, 1850, he married Amalie Pauline Hallervorden. In June 1850 he took over the office of district judge in Kyritz , after which he moved to Sigmaringen as conductor of a court deputation in 1852 , until he became public prosecutor at the district court of Hechingen on March 9, 1857 . In 1857 he adopted his son Oscar Heinrich Baum, who was now called Hans Heinrich Oscar Johow . From July 9, 1860, Reinhold Johow worked as a judge of appeal in Posen , from 1868 at the Berlin Superior Court, and in 1869 he was appointed senior tribunal advisor. On July 2, 1874, parliament selected him as a member of the First BGB Commission, which consisted of 11 members . From September 1888 he was its chairman after Heinrich Eduard von Pape died. It was Reinhold Johow who, in his draft of property law in 1880, was the first to explain why the division into property law and the law of obligations should be of fundamental importance in terms of the legal system beyond the original pragmatic purpose . Johow ensured that essential parts of the previous Prussian laws such as the land register principles , public belief in the land register or mortgage law were incorporated into the BGB after a few changes in the first draft (1888) and second draft (1895).

In 1888 he worked out the land register regulations for the German Reich and was instrumental in drafting a law on enforcement in 1889 . In 1889 he left the judicial service at his own request.

Works

Of the numerous legal publications , the Preußisch-Hohenzollernsche Handbüchlein für Jedermann (1858), Die Wechsel-Judicats-Klage based on Prussian procedural law (1865), On the doctrine of the pledgee's rights to the fruits of the pledged item (1871) are mentioned. , the yearbook for final decisions of the Prussian appellate courts (ed., Vol. 1–8; 1872–1879) or the land register regulations for the German Empire (1888), which are still one of the most important today because of their fundamental and at the same time extremely detailed explanations Sources on the history of land register law in the 19th century can be viewed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Schubert : Materials on the history of the development of the BGB , 1978, p. 74.
2. ↑ Kerstin Theis / Jürgen Wilhelm: France on the Rhine: the traces of the "French era" in West Germany , 2009, p. 273.
3. ^ Matthias Lehmann: Financial Instruments , 2009, p. 199.
4. ↑ Ulrike Köbler, Werden, Wandel und Wesen des German private law vocabulary , 2010, p. 429