Richard Weyl (lawyer)

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Richard Weyl , pseudonym: Richard Wilhelm , (born July 9, 1864 in Königsberg ; † May 28, 1940 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Youth and education

Richard Weyl was a son of Ulrich Weyl (born September 17, 1833 in Rastenburg ; † May 5, 1883 in Königsberg) and his wife Johanna, née Tischler (born November 1, 1840 in Königsberg; † July 3, 1904). The maternal grandfather was the Königsberg merchant Friedrich Wilhelm Tischler (1784–1846), who was married to Johanna, nee Striewski, (* 1802) in his second marriage.

Richard Weyl's father Ulrich served as a lieutenant in the artillery, which transferred him to Danzig, where the family moved their residence. Like his two older sisters, he attended the private school of the three Römer sisters until the spring of 1872. In May 1872 the father was sent back to Königsberg. From the autumn of the same year, Weyl attended the sixth grade of the Kneiphöfischen Gymnasium , which he left at Easter 1882 with the Abitur.

Weyl's father received such a small salary that the family hosted three sons of a landlord as boarders for several years. Nevertheless, Weyl received a bourgeois education typical for his time. He was often able to visit the theater and concerts and received piano lessons. Because he was nearsighted, he was not drafted into military service.

A sponsored scholarship from a distant relative enabled Weyl to study law at the University of Königsberg. He also financed this by giving tutoring. During his studies he mostly listened to Felix Dahn . This probably inspired him for questions of legal history. He also attended lectures by Philipp Zorn .

In July 1885, Weyl won an annual student competition. He wrote about "The rights of the Franconian kings according to Gregory of Tours' Franconian church history". At the end of October 1885 he passed his first legal exam and then initially completed a legal clerkship at the Bartenstein District Court for nine months , which he continued in Königsberg. At the end of June he passed the assessor examination at the Ministry of Justice in Berlin. He then worked as a court assessor in Königsberg.

At the beginning of August 1890, Weyl took leave of absence to work on his habilitation. For reasons of cost, he decided on the University of Leipzig. There he only had to pay relatively low fees. In addition, he did not have to submit an expensive, printed version of his work. He took the oral examination in November 1885 before he had submitted his dissertation, which the doctoral regulations allowed. As part of his dissertation, he revised his award-winning work. When she obtained her doctorate in law, she was entitled “The Franconian royalty of the 6th century”.

Weyl moved back to Königsberg for the habilitation, which took place at the beginning of June 1891. For this he submitted a legal history paper on the relationship between state and church in the Carolingian era. In his first lecture he gave a lecture on the patent law of the German Reich, which had only existed for a few months. De facto, his work as a court assessor did not begin until the beginning of 1892. He got a position at the “Chamber of Commerce”, which offered little work. Therefore, he mainly taught as a private lecturer at the university.

Working as a university professor

At the end of September 1898, Weyl received a call from the University of Kiel as associate professor for German private law, German legal history, civil law and commercial law. In the beginning he dealt in particular with private law and civil law. As a private lecturer, he had already given several lectures in Königsberg and Elbing. This resulted in the very extensive “Textbook of Reich Insurance Law” completed in 1894. In 1898 and 1900 he wrote two volumes of the "Lectures on the Civil Code for Practitioners". In 1905 the “system of the concepts of fault in the civil code for the German Reich” was added. Weyl was thus one of the first to comment on the civil code .

First World War

During the First World War Weyl volunteered in civil war aid. He was also involved in the city administration and represented a lawyer who had to do military service. Based on this practical experience, he wrote several essays in which he dealt with issues related to current war events. This included the war will law, continued salary payments, death declarations of soldiers missing in the war and expropriations under martial law.

Volunteering

Weyl has been a member of the gymnastics movement since his time in Königsberg . In Kiel he joined the "Men's Gymnastics Club of 1844". From 1911 he officiated as regional representative of the "Ostholsteinischen Turngau". Due to internal conflicts, he gave up the office in 1915. Also in 1911 he took over the management of the state courses in which gymnastics teachers and sports directors at Kiel University were trained. From 1922 until his release as a university professor in 1929, he took over the chairmanship of the Academic Committee for Physical Activity.

During the war Weyl had a seat on the Central Committee for Gymnastics, Sports and Games. Due to his commitment in the field of sport and his honorary posts, he wrote on youth law and youth care after the end of the war. He dealt in particular with legal issues in the field of club sports. So in 1927 the summarizing presentation "The German Youth Law" was created.

Significance for the University of Kiel

Weyl made lasting contributions to the history of Kiel University. So he systematically compiled portraits of university lecturers there. He also looked at a directory of the university's professors and lecturers. The beginnings were created in 1887 by Friedrich Volbehr . Weyl completed this from the beginnings of the university to the present. Editions of this went to print in 1916 and 1934. He also laid the foundations for a fourth edition. Rudolf Bülck (1880–1954) and Hans-Joachim Newiger completed it.

The collection of portraits created by Weyl was lost to bombs during World War II ; Most of the materials stored in the Kiel University Archives were also destroyed. The fourth edition of the list of lecturers, called “Volbehr / Weyl”, is now partially the only source for the personal history of the university.

Works

Weyl's most important scientific work was "The Franconian State Church Law at the Time of the Merovingians". He wrote the legal history study based on his award-winning writing and doctoral thesis in 1888. The book was reprinted through 1970.

In addition to scientific writings, Weyl also created literary works. He started doing this during his time in Königsberg and continued this work in Kiel in the 1920s. He wrote several, mostly humorous short stories that appeared in magazines. Under a pseudonym he created the small theater plays "Alexander the Great on the Rade" and "Director in Need".

In old age Weyl captured “Colorful pictures from my life”. He wrote this text for his family. The work never went to print and is today an important source for the history of the milieus, especially in Königsberg, but also in Kiel.

Honors

In 1898 Weyl received the Order of the Crown, 4th class.
In 1913 he was awarded the Red Eagle Order, 4th class.
In 1918 he received the Cross of Merit for War Aid.

family

Weyl married the teacher Bertha Wagner on December 29, 1902 in Berlin (* December 20, 1877 in Berlin; † October 29, 1955 in Uetersen ). Her father Julius Wagner (born May 18, 1842 in Berlin; † August 16, 1904 there) was an infantry general, chief of the engineer and pioneer corps and inspector general of the fortresses. He was married to Johanna, née Heppner (born August 25, 1840 in Danzig , † May 17, 1920 in Kiel).

The Weyl couple had two daughters and the sons Johannes Weyl and Richard Weyl .

literature

Hartwig Molzow: Weyl, Richard . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, pp. 484–487.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Hartwig Molzow: Weyl, Richard . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 484.
↑ Hartwig Molzow: Weyl, Richard . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, pp. 484–485.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hartwig Molzow: Weyl, Richard . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 485.
↑ Hartwig Molzow: Weyl, Richard . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, pp. 485-486.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hartwig Molzow: Weyl, Richard . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 486.

personal data
SURNAME	Weyl, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Weyl, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Richard (full name); Wilhelm, Richard (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 9, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH	May 28, 1940
Place of death	Kiel

[S484-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Hartwig Molzow: Weyl, Richard . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 484.

[2] Hartwig Molzow: Weyl, Richard . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, pp. 484–485.

[S485-3] Hartwig Molzow: Weyl, Richard . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 485.

[4] Hartwig Molzow: Weyl, Richard . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, pp. 485-486.

[S486-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hartwig Molzow: Weyl, Richard . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 13. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2011, p. 486.