Rudolf Nirk

Rudolf Nirk (born October 11, 1922 in Ravensburg ; † August 25, 2010 in Heidelberg ) was a German lawyer, author and attorney at the Federal Court of Justice .

Life

Rudolf Nirk took part in the Second World War as a submarine commander and began studying in Tübingen in 1946 . After working at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law , Rudolf Nirk was admitted to the bar in 1953 and before the Federal Court of Justice in 1963 . Rudolf Nirk was a member of the board and for five years Vice-President of the Bar Association at the Federal Court of Justice, member of the board and vice-president of the German Lawyers' Association (DAV), chairman and honorary chairman of the association of lawyers admitted to the Federal Court of Justice and chairman of the GVG / ZPO legislative committee of the DAV. He was co-editor of the Neue Juristische Wochenschrift .

In addition to his work in commercial and business law , he also published in the field of sports law : his own rules of skiing created in 1964 formed a basis for the rules of conduct for skiers of the International Ski Federation (FIS) adopted in 1967 .

Nirk was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, was honorary professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and was awarded the German Bar Association's Badge of Honor.

literature

• Karl Bruchhausen / Hefermehl / Hommelhoff / Messer (eds.): Festschrift for Rudolf Nirk on his 70th birthday on October 11, 1992 , Beck, Munich, Berlin 1992.
• Norbert Gross : Rudolf Nirk . In: New legal weekly . tape 63 , no. 38 , 2010, p. 2780 . [Obituary]
• Rainer Hamm : Rudolf Nirk on his 80th birthday . In: New legal weekly . tape 55 , no. 8 , 2002, p. 572-574 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Nirk , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 8, 2010, No. 208, p. 21; Norbert Gross : Obituary Prof. Dr. Rudolf Nirk (1922–2010) , in: Federal Court of Justice , September 3, 2010.
2. ↑ Die Anwälte ( Memento of the original dated November 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at rabgh-nirk-schott.de, accessed on November 4, 2014. 
3. ↑ NJW 1964, 1829ff.
4. ^ Attorney at the BGH Prof. Dr. Rudolf Nirk was awarded the German Bar of Honor ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: German Lawyers Association (DAV) eV , October 14, 2002.