Robert Scheyhing

Hans Robert Ulrich Scheyhing (born March 19, 1927 in Ulm ; † December 6, 1989 in Tübingen ) was a German legal scholar and professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

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Scheyhing attended elementary school and, from 1937, the humanistic grammar school in Ulm. As a 17-year-old he was drafted for the Second World War and became a prisoner of war. In 1946 he passed his military diploma and first started studying law at the Philosophical-Theological University in Dillingen . In the winter semester of 1947/48 he moved to the University of Tübingen . There he passed his first state examination in law in 1950, followed by the second in 1953. As early as 1952 he was from the University of Tübingen with the publication “The Development of German Judicial Constitutional Law from May 8, 1945 to October 1, 1950” , which was supervised by Eduard Kern , as a Dr. iur. been awarded a doctorate. In 1954 Scheyhing became assistant to the legal seminar in Tübingen and qualified as a professor in 1958 under the supervision of Hans Erich Feine . This gave him the Venia legendi for the subjects of German legal history and civil law.

After a professorship at the University of Göttingen , he accepted the professorship for German legal history and civil law at Kiel University in 1960 . In 1965 he moved back to the University of Tübingen. There he held a full chair for German legal history, civil law and commercial law until his death. He was also a co-opted member of the economics faculty. He was also a long-time member of Öschingen's municipal council . In 1989 Robert Scheyhing died after a long illness.

Scheyhing devoted himself in his work to medieval and modern legal history, especially the history of the constitution. He also conducted research on agricultural law and private law dogmatics. His main work is probably the article written together with Knut Wolfgang Nörr on successions in the manual of the law of obligations.

Fonts (selection)

• The development of German judicial constitutional law from May 8, 1945 to October 1, 1950 . Universitätsverlag, Tübingen 1950 (dissertation).
• Oaths, Authority and Ban Lending: An Inquiry into Ban Lending in the High and Late Middle Ages . Böhlau, Cologne 1960 (habilitation thesis).
• Court rules . Heymanns, Cologne 1967.
• German constitutional history of modern times . Heymanns, Cologne 1968.
• Pluralism and general clauses, viewed against the background of social change . Mohr, Tuebingen 1976.
• with Knut Wolfgang Nörr: Successions: assignment, transfer of contract, transfer of debt, accession of debt . Mohr, Tübingen 1983, ISBN 978-3-16-644639-4 .
• with Hermann Lange : Cases on property law . 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 978-3-406-33487-0 ( reprinted after his death).

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Kerner u. a. (Ed.): In memory of Professor Dr. iur. Robert Scheyhing (1927 - 1989) , Eberhard-Karls-Univ., Tübingen 1992 (Tübingen University Speeches , NF Volume 2) (with bibliography).
• Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 363 .
• Obituary: Robert Scheyhing † , JZ 1990, p. 482f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Scheyhing in the catalog of the German National Library