Rolf Dietz

Rolf Erwin Waldemar Dietz (born October 14, 1902 in Würzburg , † March 29, 1971 in Munich ) was a German law scholar and university professor.

Life

Dietz comes from a long-established Würzburg bourgeois family. His father died as a royal Bavarian officer in the First World War ; he himself was a member of the Reichswehr towards the end of the war. In 1921 he passed his Abitur. Dietz then began to study mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich , but in 1922 he moved to the University of Würzburg to study law . In 1925 he completed this course with the first state examination in law. In the same year he did his doctorate in Würzburg with Friedrich Oetker on a criminal law topic. In 1928 Dietz passed his second state examination. From 1929 he worked as an assistant at the newly founded Institute for Labor and Business Law at the University of Cologne , turning his attention to this area of ​​law. There he gained his first practical experience as an employee at the employers' association of the iron and steel industry. Finally, Dietz completed his habilitation under Heinrich Lehmann in Cologne in 1932 and received the venia legendi for the subjects of civil law, commercial and labor law.

This was initially followed by substitute professorships at the Universities of Würzburg and Kiel . From 1935 Dietz was an associate professor at the University of Giessen , from 1937 he held a full chair. In 1940 he accepted a position at the University of Breslau . Because Dietz had a kidney removed as a child, he did not have to do military service. However, in January 1945, after his family had already fled, he was called in to work as a Volkssturm man , but soon suffered a heart attack and was flown out of Wroclaw. In autumn 1945 Dietz accepted the call from Kiel University. However, since he had joined the NSDAP like most of his colleagues , he was released at the end of January 1946, but immediately reinstated after the denazification process was over. In 1950 Dietz moved to the University of Münster . During this time Dietz was part-time Higher Regional Judge at the Higher Regional Court in Hamm . In 1958 Dietz accepted an offer from the University of Munich to the chair of the retired Alfred Hueck , where he became director of the seminar for labor and commercial law as well as the seminar for commercial and industrial law. In 1962, the law and political science faculty of the University of Münster awarded him an honorary doctorate in economics . In 1969 Rolf Dietz retired.

Dietz was married and the father of four children. After his first wife and mother of his children died in 1952, he remarried in 1965. In 1950 Dietz was one of the founders of the civil law teachers' association , of which he was president from 1959 to 1969. His students include Günther Beitzke , Götz Hueck , Herbert Wiedemann , Reinhard Richardi , Herbert Buchner and Wolfgang Blomeyer . Dietz died on March 29, 1971 in Munich after a long illness.

Works (selection)

At the beginning of his academic career, Dietz made a special contribution to the dogmatics of civil law. His work on the claim competition , published in 1934, is considered a standard work. Later he mainly devoted himself to collective labor law . Together with Alfred Hueck and Hans Carl Nipperdey , he edited the leading commentary on the Law on the Order of National Labor . In addition, Dietz is considered to be one of the intellectual fathers of the employee's claim to employment, which is recognized today, which was contrary to the prevailing opinion of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich . After the Second World War, Dietz was the leading commentator on the Works Constitution Act of that time .

• The de lege lata and de lege ferenda workhouse . Universitätsverlag, Würzburg 1925 (dissertation).
• Competing claims in breach of contract and offense . Röhrscheid, Bonn 1934 (habilitation thesis).
• with Alfred Hueck and Hans Carl Nipperdey: Law for the Order of National Work . 4th edition. CH Beck, Munich 1943.
• Works Constitution Act: Commentary . 4th edition. CH Beck, Munich 1967.
• with Heinrich Lehmann (first name): corporate law . 3. Edition. Vahlen, Munich 1965, ISBN 978-3-8006-0021-2 .

literature

• Reinhard Richardi in: Juristen im Portrait - Verlag and Authors in 4 decades. Festschrift for the 225th anniversary of the CH Beck publishing house . CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 978-3-406-33196-1 , p. 250-259 .
• Götz Hueck and Reinhard Richardi (eds.): Memorial for Rolf Dietz . CH Beck, Munich 1973, ISBN 978-3-406-04960-6 .

Web links

• Kiel professors from 1919 to 1965: Rolf Erwin Waldemar Dietz , Kiel directory of scholars