Rolf Lieberwirth

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Rolf Lieberwirth (born December 1, 1920 in Halle an der Saale ; † April 5, 2019 there ) was a German legal scholar . He was Professor of Legal History and International Private Law at the University of Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1939 and labor service , Lieberwirth was drafted, promoted to officer in the course of the war, and he ended his military service, wounded as a first lieutenant, in a Halle hospital in American and later Soviet captivity .

From the summer of 1945 Lieberwirth studied law at the law faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. One of his fellow students was Friedrich Elchlepp , a former naval officer of the Wehrmacht and son of the Halle university curator . Lieberwirth passed both state law exams. He then worked as an assistant to the Halle legal historian Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher , professor of German law and legal history, the first woman to hold a legal professorship in Germany. Lieberwirth received his doctorate in 1953 with a dissertation on liens at the time of the Enlightenment . Until the third university reform in 1967 in the GDR, Lieberwirth was director of the then dissolved Institute for State and Legal History. His habilitation in 1967 resulted from his preoccupation with the life's work of Christian Thomasius , the intellectual founder of the University of Halle .

In 1969 Lieberwirth became Professor of Legal History and International Private Law in Halle. Before that, he had already taught Roman law as a professor at what was then the law faculty of the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. He is considered one of the most sought-after Thomasius connoisseurs. Since the late 1970s, he has also researched the history of the University of Wittenberg , the creation of the Sachsenspiegel and the spread of Saxon-Magdeburg law in Eastern Europe.

Lieberwirth, a member of the LDPD at the time, like the first Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt and the only non-communist head of government in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany, Professor Erhard Hubener . Lieberwirth was one of the few legal scholars in the GDR who did not allow themselves to be ideologically co-opted and who enjoyed high recognition among their students because of their membership in a block party and primarily because of their professional skills - just like the Halle international lawyer Reintanz . At the beginning of the 1970s, Lieberwirth was director of education and training at the same time as chairman of the examination committee under the section director Rudolf Hieblinger (* 1924; † 2009) and previously under the dean Willi Büchner-Uhder (* 1928; † 2003) vice dean. His person and his works also found great attention and acceptance in the Federal Republic of that time and in other European countries. From the very beginning, Lieberwirth was part of the team of authors of the legal history standard work Manual Dictionary on German Legal History , for the first edition of which he edited over 30 headwords. Lieberwirth retired in 1986.

Lieberwirth became known to a broader public in the GDR in 1986 through his Handbuch Latin im Recht , which was also published in Heidelberg in the same year under the title Latin technical expressions in law . In the early 1980s there were newspaper articles in the GDR press about his legal historical assessment of the Roland pictures and the authentic hut of a complaint and complaint court in the Volkmannrode desert .

After the law and political science section of the University of Halle had been wound up in 1991, Lieberwirth provided valuable support in the establishment of the law faculty, which was re-established in 1993, in the founding commission and in several important bodies. He also returned to the lecture hall in Halle (Saale) to give lectures on legal history and thus to bridge the difficult personnel situation in the early 1990s. In addition, Lieberwirth held lectures for two semesters at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

Lieberwirth had been a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig since 1972 and a member of its affiliated historical commission since 1973. From 1991 to 1994 he was Vice President of the Saxon Academy. He was instrumental in ensuring that in 1994 a workstation for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) was set up for the edition of the Sachsenspiegelgloss at the academy. Since then he has been a member of the central management of the MGH.

Lieberwirth died at the age of 99 and was buried on April 12, 2019 at the Gertraudenfriedhof in Halle (Saale) . In his memoirs, he devoted himself, among other things, to the work of the legal scholar in the field of criminal law and his history Arthur Wegner at the law faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg from 1934 to 1937 and from 1963 to 1965.

honors and awards

  • 1988: Eike von Repgow bronze sculpture of the state capital Magdeburg .
  • 1995: Honorary doctorate from the law faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .
  • 1998: Rights of the Repgow Prize winner of the state capital Magdeburg.
  • 2003: On May 28, 2003, the law faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg honored him on the occasion of his golden doctoral jubilee with an anniversary certificate and a laudation from his student Heiner Lück . A total of three festschrifts and an anthology with his essays were dedicated to him.
  • 2010: Federal Cross of Merit 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Christian Thomasius. His scientific life's work. A bibliography. Weimar 1955.
  • Eike von Repchow and the Sachsenspiegel. [presented at the public meeting on April 18, 1980 by Rolf Lieberwirth]. (= Meeting reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 122, Issue 4). Berlin 1982.
  • Saxon-Magdeburg law as the source of Eastern European legal systems. Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-05-000068-6 .
  • Archbishop Wichmann's privilege and Magdeburg law. (= Saxon Academy of Sciences (Leipzig). Philological-historical class: session reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-historical class. Volume 130, Issue 3). Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-05-001042-8 .
  • About the gloss to the Sachsenspiegel. (= Saxon Academy of Sciences (Leipzig). Philological-historical class: session reports of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-historical class. Volume 132, issue 6). Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-002421-6 .
  • Latin in law. compiled by Rolf Lieberwirth. 5th revised edition, Huss, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-349-01113-5 .
  • with Heiner Lück (ed.): Legal historical writings. Böhlau, Weimar / Cologne / Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-412-02496-1 .
  • History of the Law Faculty of the University of Halle-Wittenberg after 1945. Facts and memories , Cologne / Munich, 2008; ISBN 3-452-26840-3

As editor

  • Christian Thomasius: About torture: Studies on the history of torture. Translated and edited by Rolf Lieberwirth. Weimar 1960.
  • Christian Thomasius: From the vice of sorcery. About the witch trials. De Crimen Magiae. Processus Inquisitorii contra Sagas. Revised and edited by Rolf Lieberwirth. 2nd Edition. Munich 1987 (Unchanged reprint of the edition by Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1967), ISBN 3-423-02170-5 .

For Rolf Lieberwirth

  • Heiner Lück / Bernd Schildt (eds.): Law, idea, history. Contributions to the history of law and ideas for Rolf Lieberwirth on the occasion of his 80th birthday , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2000; ISBN 978-3-412-10700-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Albrecht Cordes : Interview with Prof. Dr. Rolf Lieberwirth on September 12, 2007 in Halle (December 21, 2007) , in “forum historiae iuris”; fhi - First internet journal for European legal history; ISSN  1860-5605
  2. ^ Breithaupt, Dirk: Juridical Biography GDR , 1993, p. 365; DNB 940131013
  3. ↑ Lieberwirth's beginning of studies is described in: Rolf Lieberwirth: My first encounter with the law seminar at the Halle Faculty of Law . In: Heiner Lück , Heiner Schnelling, Karl-Ernst Wehnert (eds.): 150 years of the legal seminar of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Stekovics, Halle, Saale 2005, ISBN 3-89923-106-6 , p. 59-63 .
  4. ↑ Rupieper, Hermann-Josef (ed.): “And the most important thing is unity”. June 17, 1953 in the districts of Halle and Magdeburg , Münster / Hamburg / London 2003, p. 274 f .; ISBN 3-8258-6775-7
  5. ↑ Habel, Walter (ed.): Who is? The German who's who. 2nd supplemented edition, arani-Verlags-GmbH, Berlin-Grunewald, p. 196: Keyword Lieberwirth, Rolf
  6. ↑ Entry in the official study book - date of issue August 26, 1966 - and handwritten signature with his personal abbreviation for the spring semester 1966/67; Schudi Collection 45
  7. ↑ data from Gerhard Köbler ; Lawyers p. 627
  8. ↑ Lieberwirth, Rolf. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Berlin 1992, p. 2170.
  9. ↑ New Germany newspaper , June 7, 1986, page 14: Book review on Latin in Law ("Latin Special Lexicon")
  10. ↑ Latin in Law . Compiled by Rolf Lieberwirth; State Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1986
  11. ↑ ISBN 3-8114-6485-X
  12. ↑ Dr. Dieter Pötschke ( short biography ) in daily newspaper Neue Zeit , August 5, 1983, page 3
  13. ↑ Neue Zeit , July 24, 1981, page 3
  14. ↑ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN LEGAL HISTORY: IN MEMORIAM ROLF LIEBERWIRTH; Retrieved May 8, 2019
  15. ^ History of the Law Faculty of the University of Halle-Wittenberg after 1945. Facts and memories , Cologne / Munich, 2008, pp. 18, 62 and 71 f .; ISBN 3-452-26840-3
  16. ↑ Press release of the University of Magdeburg November 1998 on the Eike von Repgow Prize
personal data
SURNAME Lieberwirth, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH 5th April 2019
Place of death Halle (Saale)