Robert Neuner

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Robert Richard Neuner (born April 8, 1898 in Munich ; died September 14, 1945 in Washington, DC ) was a German lawyer .

The son of a dentist studied law at the University of Munich , where he in 1922 his doctorate in 1925 on "Private Law and Procedural Law" of German civil law , civil procedure law and Roman law habilitation was. From 1927 he taught Roman and German law as an associate professor at the German University in Prague . 1929/30 he taught for one academic year at Harvard University . In 1934 he was appointed full professor of civil procedural law in Prague .

After the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 , Neuner emigrated to the United States via Switzerland and France . There he took over a professorship for international private law at Yale University . He advised the American Federal Communications Commission and was involved in the preparation of the Nuremberg Trials .

Fonts

  • Contributions to the civil process. J. Bensheimer, Mannheim 1925.
  • Private law and procedural law. J. Bensheimer Verl., Mannheim 1925.
  • International jurisdiction. J. Bensheimer, Mannheim 1929.
  • Introductory remarks on the restatement of the law of contracts. , [Berlin] 1931.
  • The meaning of the international private law norm. A Critique of Qualification Theory. RM Rohrer, Brunn 1932.
  • Outline of the Czechoslovak civil procedure law. Calve, Prague 1935.

literature

  • Rudolph M. Wlaschek: Biographia Judaica Bohemia , Research Center East Central Europe Dortmund, Dortmund 1995ff.
  • Stephen Taylor (ed.): Who's Who in Central and East Europe . Central European Times Times Publ. Co., Zurich 1935.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the literature, Neuner is sometimes viewed as a Jew. Cf., with the wrong year of birth, Rudolf M. Wlaschek: The University and the Jews. The example of Prague in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Peter Wörster (ed.): Universities in Eastern Central Europe. Between church, state and nation - social-historical and political developments . Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, p. 231. As a non-Jew and actually an apolitical voluntary emigrant: Johann Wolfgangügel: Czechs and Germans, 1918–1938 . Vol. 1. Nymphenburger, Munich 1967, p. 305.
personal data
SURNAME Neuner, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neuner, Robert Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1945
Place of death Washington, DC