Rolf Knieper
Rolf Knieper (born May 15, 1941 in Unna ) is a German legal scholar .
Life
Knieper studied at the University of Frankfurt a. M. , the Free University of Berlin and the Harvard Law School . In 1967 he received his doctorate in Frankfurt . In 1972 he was appointed professor at the University of Bremen . In 1974 he stayed in Italy for research purposes, in 1977 he did research at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC In 2006, Rolf Knieper retired . Knieper's main research areas were family law and international business law .
In 1978/1979 he advised the government of Chad on the formulation of the mining law and from 1981 to 1988 the government of the Central African Republic on legislation. After the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, from 1992 he advised on the commercial and private law legislation of Georgia , Uzbekistan , Albania , Turkmenistan , Mongolia , the People's Republic of China , Azerbaijan , Armenia , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan and Moldova . From 1997 he was head of the legal reform project in the transition states of Central and Eastern Europe of the German Society for Technical Cooperation .
Honors
Knieper is honorary professor at the State University of Law of Almaty (Kazakhstan) and honorary doctorate from the State University of Tbilisi and the State University of Chișinău (Moldova).
The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan awarded him the symbol medal, the highest award that the Ministry of Justice there can award. On July 10, 2006 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the then Federal Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries . He was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his contribution to international cooperation.
Works
- The Influence of the Law Against Restraints of Competition on the Surrender and Use of Trade Secrets, Augsburg 1968 (plus jur. Diss. Frankfurt a. M. 1968)
- Law and history: a contribution to the existence and change of the civil code , Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4351-6 .
- Legal reforms along the Silk Road: essays and lectures during the observational participation in a huge transformation process , Berlin: BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3-8305-1235-6 .
- Private law in the Caucasus and Central Asia: inventory and development , with Lado Chanturia and Hans-Joachim Schramm, BWV, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8305-1744-3 .
Web links
- Curia Vita on the homepage of the University of Bremen
- Literature by and about Rolf Knieper in the catalog of the German National Library
- Haug von Kuenheim : A professor as assistant , Die Zeit , issue 26, 1996.
- Rolf Knieper, Legal Cooperation: Universality and Context , www.cis-legal-reform.org ( Memento from July 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Knieper on his advice in the area of the former Soviet Union; German / English / Russian)
- Interview with R. Knieper: "A lot has happened in all five countries". (PDF; 123 kB) Federal Foreign Office, accessed on March 24, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release No. 145 of the University of Bremen from May 17, 2006 ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Professor Knieper from Bremen receives the Federal Cross of Merit, in: azur, July 25, 2006.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knieper, Rolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Unna |