Rudolf Gmür (legal scholar)

Rudolf Gmür (born July 28, 1913 in Bern ; † March 23, 2002 ibid) was a Swiss lawyer and legal historian . He taught legal history and civil law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

Life

Rudolf Gmür came from an old St. Gallen family, his ancestors were ammen of Schänis Monastery until the 18th century . He grew up as the son of the legal scholar Max Gmür in Bern; his older brother was the journalist Harry Gmür . He studied law in Bern , Zurich and Jena , as well as political science in Paris . After passing the advocate exam 1940 he took up a career as a lawyer, but also acted as chamber clerk at the Supreme Court Bern . From 1944 he was also an assistant at the University of Bern, where he received his doctorate in 1948 with a thesis on fishing law . In the same place habilitated he 1954 on tithe . He was then a private lecturer and taught a. a. in Bern, Marburg an der Lahn , Tübingen and Munich . In 1957 he was appointed to succeed Karl Michaelis at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He taught here until his retirement in 1978. His successor was Heinz Holzhauer .

From 1958 to 1980 he was a member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

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In addition to comparing the law between German and Swiss civil law, Gmür focused on legal history. From 1965 onwards, he published an outline of German legal history in several editions, which Andreas Roth has continued since 2000 . The legal- effect thinking introduced by him into the legal theoretical discourse is considered important . With this keyword Gmür discussed questions that revolve around the formal requirements and the effectiveness of legal transactions .

He was a doctoral supervisor a. a. by Andreas Roth, Gerhard Otte and Werner Schubert .

Works

• The demarcation of the fishing shelf from private fishing in the canton of Bern. 1949.
• The tithe in old Bern. 1954.
• The Swiss Civil Code compared to the German Civil Code. 1965.
• Outline of German legal history. 1st edition 1965.
• Legal effect thinking in the history of private law. 1981.

literature

• Arno Buschmann (Ed.): Festschrift for Rudolf Gmür on his 70th birthday. Bielefeld 1983.
• Gerhard Otte: In memoriam Rudolf Gmür. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History , German Department 120 (2003), pp. 958–961.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Gmür in the catalog of the German National Library
• A Swiss and German law , press release by the WWU Münster on the death of Rudolf Gmür (with photo)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Markus Kaiser: Gmür. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
2. ↑ Historical Commission for Westphalia: Former members: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Gmür. Retrieved March 1, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Andreas Wacke: The legal effect thinking . Origins, capabilities and limits . In: Stefan Chr. Saar (Hrsg.): Law as inheritance and task. Heinz Holzhauer on April 21, 2005 . Berlin 2005, p. 367-394 .