Rolf Dannenbring

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Rolf Dannenbring (born December 9, 1924 in Bremen ; † January 26, 1998 in Pretoria , South Africa ) was a German legal scholar , legal historian and university professor.

Life

Dannenbring attended high school in Bremen before he was drafted into military service in October 1942 and was subsequently wounded twice in the Russian campaign . Immediately after the end of the war he returned to Bremen and passed his Abitur in April 1946. In the same year he started studying law at the University of Würzburg , soon switched to the University of Freiburg and finally passed his first state examination in 1950 at the University of Kiel . He then worked at the Kiel Faculty of Law as a faculty assistant and completed his legal clerkship at the same time, which he completed in 1954 with the second state examination. In August 1953, Dannenbring received his doctorate under the supervision of Arthur Philipp Nikisch with a thesis on American commercial arbitration. From 1955 he worked as a lawyer in Bremen.

In 1959 Dannenbring emigrated to South Africa with his family. There he first worked as a teacher in a German school and as a librarian. In Pretoria, he studied law again and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Laws. In 1962 he was admitted as a barrister and worked at the University of South Africa first as a lecturer, later as a senior lecturer and from 1970 finally as a full professor of Roman law . In 1985 he retired early.

Dannenbring was best known as a translator of Max Kaser's textbook on Roman law into English. Dannenbring himself published articles on Roman law in English and Afrikaans. He also acted as a link between the two legal systems, giving lectures on South African law in Germany and Europe and giving lectures on German constitutional law and German legal training in South Africa.

Dannenbring was married, the father of two daughters and the brother of the diplomat Fredo Dannenbring . His grandson is the organist, conductor and musicologist Marius Beckmann .

Works (selection)

  • American commercial arbitration in the American Arbitration Association taking into account the arbitration law of the United States of America . Universitätsverlag, Kiel 1953 (dissertation).
  • The Classification of law books in the University of South Africa Library . University of South Africa Publishing House, Pretoria 1965.
  • Roman Private Law . 4th edition. Publishing house of the University of South Africa, Pretoria 1984 (translation of the textbook written by Max Kaser in German).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Wacke in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Romance Department. Volume 113, Issue 1, 1999, p. 665.
personal data
SURNAME Then bring it, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, legal historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1998
Place of death Pretoria , South Africa