Rudolf Joerges

Rudolf Joerges

Rudolf Joerges (born June 19, 1868 in Ronsdorf ; † December 4, 1957 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Rudolf Joerges was the son of Wilhelm Joerges († 1894), school principal in Ronsdorf. He attended until 1879, the grammar school to Oberhausen and high schools in Duisburg (until 1880), Barmen (until 1883) and Ronsdorf (until 1884). He passed the Abitur in 1887 at the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium . He then studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn to study philology , philosophy and German . He later moved to the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg and the Philipps University of Marburg . There he became active in the Corps Palaio-Alsatia (1888) and in the Corps Guestphalia Marburg (1889). In 1896 he founded a private school. In 1898 he went on an educational trip to London and Paris “to perfect the French and English languages” . The Bonn University doctorate him in 1901 to Dr. phil.

He gave up the management of a higher private school in Düsseldorf at Easter 1906 in order to be able to study law in Bonn. He moved to the Friedrichs University in Halle . In 1909 he passed the legal traineeship at the Naumburg Higher Regional Court and entered the three-year preparatory service . The Friedrichs University graduated in 1910 as Dr. iur. In 1912 he completed his habilitation. In 1913 he gave up the judicial service to work as a private lecturer at Friedrichs University. He also acted from 1915 to 1918 as head of the city's Reich Information Center and as chairman of the trade and merchant court. Appointed professor in 1918 , he became a non-civil servant associate professor with a teaching position for legal methodology the following year .

In the Weimar Republic he was professor for legal philosophy, legal methodology, Roman, civil and labor law from 1928. He had also founded an institute for labor law, of which he had been director since 1929. From 1918 until his leave of absence he was also chairman of the state arbitration committee and from 1922 to 1933 chairman of the arbitration tribunal of the Reich.

Rudolf Joerges grave, Gertraudenfriedhof, Halle (Saale).

During the time of National Socialism , Joerges was given leave of absence on May 19, 1933 under the law for the restoration of the civil service , and in September 1933, according to Section 6, he was sent into temporary retirement . Only in September 1945 was he able to return to the University of Halle and rebuild his institute. In 1948, at the age of 80, he became dean of the law faculty. In 1950 he retired .

Honors

• Cross of Merit for War Aid (Prussia)
• Honorary Senator of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

See also

• List of researchers from the University of Halle who were expelled by the Nazi regime

literature

• Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 294 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Joerges in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Rudolf Joerges in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Personal chronicle of the Corps Palaio-Alsatia, No. 33.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 28/26; 98/122.
3. ^ Philosophical dissertation: Descartes' doctrine of sensations .
4. ↑ Legal Dissertation: The Legal Nature of the Donation Business in Collecting Assets for a Temporary Purpose .
5. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The conjugal cohabitation in its terms, in its structures and in its property relations .