Rudolf Callmann

Rudolf Callmann (born September 29, 1892 in Cologne ; † March 12, 1976 in Queens , USA ) was a German-American lawyer and specialist in competition and trademark law .

Live and act

Callmann studied after serving as a volunteer in the First World War had been wounded, at the universities of Berlin and Bonn law. In 1919 he was at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg to Dr. jur. PhD . In 1923 he joined the firm one of his father, who is also the Cologne City Council and member of the Executive Board of the synagogue in Cologne was. Rudolf Callmann ran the firm together with his brother. In 1929 he published a paper on unfair competition . In 1934 a study of German antitrust law followed . Due to the " front fighter privilege " Callmann was able to practice in Nazi Germany until 1936, despite his Jewish origins .

Callmann emigrated to the United States in 1936 . There he received a three-year research fellowship at Harvard University . In 1939 he passed the American bar exam. After assuming American citizenship , Callmann received permission to practice law in 1943. From 1939 to 1945 he worked on the American edition of his work. It was published in three volumes in 1945 with the title "The Law of Unfair Competition and Trademarks". In 1950 this work was published again in a second, expanded edition and developed into a standard work. From 1967 a five-volume edition came out, the last part of which appeared posthumously . Callmann appeared several times as a witness before congress committees because of his expertise .

In 1949 Callmann was one of the founders of the New York law firm "Green, Callmann & Durr", which specialized in questions of competition and trademarks. He was also Councel of the law firm "Golenbock and Barell" (New York City) until 1971 .

In 1929 Callmann joined the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith (CV) and since 1930 has been deputy chairman of the CV regional association on the left bank of the Rhine. After 1933 he was a member of the Presidential Committee of the Reich Representation of German Jews .

1938/39 he got involved in the refugee organization "American Federation of Jews from Central Europe", whose president or chairman he became. From 1955 Callmann also served as Vice President on the main board of the Jewish Claims Conference and as a member of the Presidium of the Council of Jews from Germany . Callmann was one of the initiators of the German-Jewish reparation talks with Theodor Heuss and Konrad Adenauer . He was also on the board of the Leo Baeck Institute . In 1971 Callmann and other people founded a New York retirement home ( Kew Gardens Nursing Home , later renamed the Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing Care ).

Honors

Since 1959 Callmann worked as an honorary professor at the University of Cologne . He received the Great Federal Cross of Merit . The German Association for Industrial Property and Copyright has been awarding the Rudolf Callmann Medal since 1981 .

family

With his wife Maria geb. Hess he had a daughter, the art historian Ellen Callmann .

Fonts

• The unfair competition. Commentary on the law against unfair competition and on the substantive provisions of the law for the protection of product names , J. Bensheimer, Mannheim 1929.
• On the boycott question. A report , Philo-Verlag, Berlin 1930.
• German antitrust law. Commentary , Philo-Verlag, Berlin 1934.
• with Louis Domeratsky a. a .: Regulation of economic activities in foreign countries. Printed for the use of the Temporary National Economic Committee , United States Government Print. Office, Washington, DC 1941.
• The law of unfair competition and trade-marks , Callaghan, Chicago, 1945.

literature

• Rudolph Callmann, 83, dies. Lawyer Aided Jewish Refugees. In: The New York Times . March 15, 1976.
• Callmann, Rudolf. In: Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economics, public life. Management and editing: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss , with the assistance of Dieter Marc Schneider and Louise Forsyth. Authors: Jan Foitzik er al. Saur, Munich et al. 1980, ISBN 0-89664-101-5 , p. 565.
• Theodor Baums : Legal norm and judicial decision in competition law. Rudolf Callmann's contribution to German and American legal developments. GRURInt 1992, 1 ff. In: Marcus Lutter , Ernst C. Stiefel , Michael H. Hoeflich (Eds.): The Influence of German Emigrants on Legal Development in the USA and in Germany: Lectures and Lectures at the Bonn Symposium in September 1991. Tübingen 1993, p. 63 ff.
• Ernst C. Stiefel, Frank Mecklenburg: German lawyers in American exile (1933–1950). Mohr, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-16-145688-2 , p. 126 f.
• Christopher Wadlow: Rudolf Callmann and the Misappropriation Doctrine in the Common Law of Unfair Competition. In: ZGE / IPJ . 3, 2011, p. 47 ff. = Intellectual Property Quarterly 2011, 110 ff.
• Sebastian Bachmann: Rudolf Callmann. Life and work of a Jewish competition and antitrust law expert in the 20th century Münster a. a. 2015.
• Simon Apel: Rudolf Callmann (1892-1976) . In: Simon Apel, Louis Pahlow, Matthias Wießner (eds.): Biographisches Handbuch des Intellectual Property , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-16-154999-1 , pp. 57-61.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the brief introduction in the Guide to the American Federation of Jewish from Central Europe, Inc. Collection 1933–1951 on the Yeshiva University website . "The AFJCE was an umbrella association of various Jewish organizations in the USA, which looked after the newly arrived Jewish refugees from Central and Eastern Europe and referred them to the various Jewish communities and associations in the USA." ( Hubertus Buchstein : Ernst Fraenkel als Klassiker?, In : Leviathan - Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft , vol. 26 (1998), pp. 458–481, here p. 475.)
2. ^ Institution website
3. ↑ Marcus Lutter , Ernst C. Stiefel , Michael H. Hoeflich (eds.): The influence of German emigrants on the legal development in the USA and in Germany. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-16-146080-4 , p. 65 ( Google books ).