Rudolf Wiethölter

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Rudolf Wiethölter (born July 17, 1929 in Solingen ) is a German lawyer and professor emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Wiethölter began studying law at the University of Cologne in 1949 , which he completed in 1952 with the first state examination in law. He then studied for a year at the College of Europe in Bruges . In 1955 he was at Gerhard cone in Cologne with a thesis on unilateral conflict rules as the basis of private international law to Dr. iur. PhD. After the second state examination in 1956, Wiethölter worked as a lawyer. 1958/59 he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Berkeley , where he worked for his habilitation projectResearched interests and organs of the stock corporation in American and German law . 1960 Wiethölter completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne.

In 1963 he accepted a position at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. There he held the chair for civil law, commercial law, business law and international private law until his retirement in 1997. In 1970/71 Wiethölter was the university's prorector .

Wiethölter's jurisprudential reform literature, jurisprudence , written together with Rudolf Bernhardt and Erhard Denninger , was “a celebrated classic of the 1968 generation”.

In 1989 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bremen .

Fonts (selection)

  • Unilateral conflict of laws as the basis of private international law . De Gruyter, Berlin 1956.
  • The justification of the correct behavior . CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1960
  • Interests and organs of the stock corporation in American and German law 1961 . CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1961
  • Jurisprudence . Funk College Law. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M./ Hamburg 1968.
  • Law-making of a company law, in: Christian Joerges and Gunther Teubner (eds.), Legal constitution law. Law manufacturing between private law dogmatics and social theory, Baden-Baden 2003, pp. 13–21. English version: Just-ifications of a Law of Society, in: Oren Perez and Gunther Teubner (Eds.), Paradoxes and Inconsistencies in the Law, Oxford 2005, pp. 65-77.
  • For reasoning in law. Consequences of Decision as Legal Reasons ?, in: Gunther Teubner (Ed.), Consequences of Decision as Legal Reasons. Consequential reasoning in a comparative law perspective, Baden-Baden 1995, pp. 89–120.
  • On the formation of rules in the dogmatics of civil law, in: Maximilian Herberger, Ulfrid Neumann and Helmut Rüßmann (eds.), Generalization and Individualization in Legal Thought (Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy, Supplement 45), Stuttgart 1992, pp. 222–240.
  • Soldiers are soldiers are soldiers - The soldier's judgment and no beginning ?, in: Kritische Justiz 1991, p. 61 ff.
  • Proceduralization of the Category of Law, in: Christian Joerges and David M. Trubek (Eds.), Critical Legal Thought. An American-German Debate, Baden-Baden 1989, pp. 501-510.
  • Is our right to be tried ?, in: Axel Honneth, Thomas McCarthy, Claus Offe and Albrecht Wellmer (eds.), Intermediate considerations. In the process of enlightenment. Jürgen Habermas about his 60th birthday, Frankfurt am Main 1989, pp. 794–812.
  • On the training law of (judicial) legal training. Questions from a reading law-making teacher, in: Critical quarterly journal for legislation and legal science 1988, pp. 1–28.
  • Social science models in business law, Kritische Justiz 18 (1985), pp. 126-139. English version: Social Science Models in Economic Law, in: Terence Daintith / Gunther Teubner (Eds.), Contract and Organization. Legal Analysis in the Light of Economic and Social Theory, Berlin / New York 1986, pp. 52-67.
  • From special general private law to general special private law ?, Anales de la Cátedra Francisco Suarez 22 (Granada 1982/83), pp. 125–166.
  • Theses on economic constitutional law, in: Peter Römer (ed.), The fight for the constitution. On the political significance of the interpretation of the constitution, Cologne 1977, p. 158 ff.
  • Private law as a social theory? Comments on the logic of regulatory legal doctrine, in: Fritz Baur / Josef Esser / Friedrich Kübler and Ernst Steindorff (eds.), Functional change in private law institutions. Festschrift for Ludwig Raiser on his 70th birthday, Tübingen 1974, pp. 645–695.
  • Gli intersti dello stato di diritto borghese, in: Pietro Barcellona (ed.), L'uso alternativo del diritto. Volume 1: Scienza giuridica e analisi marxista, Roma-Bari 1973, pp. 35-45.
  • Diritto dell'economia: analisi di una 'formula magica', in: Pietro Barcellona (ed.), L'uso alternativo del diritto. Volume 1: Scienza giuridica e analisi marxista, Roma-Bari 1973, pp. 207-225.
  • La demistificazione del diritto dell'economia come premessa per un 'analisi critica e per una prassi emancipatoria, in: Pietro Barcellona (ed.), L'uso alternativo del diritto. Volume 2: Ortodossia giuridica e practica politica, Roma-Bari 1973, pp. 95-100.
  • On the political function of the law in the established and exercised commercial enterprise, Kritische Justiz 3 (1970), pp. 121-139.
  • The GmbH in a modern company law and the draft bill of a GmbH law, in: Problems of the GmbH reform, Cologne 1970, p. 11 ff.
  • The position of commercial law in the social constitutional state, in: Helmut Coing / Heinrich Kronstein / Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker (eds.), Economic order and legal order. Festschrift for Franz Böhm's 70th birthday on February 16, 1965, Karlsruhe 1965, pp. 41–62.

literature

  • Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Gunther Teubner: New theories of law . Ed .: Sonja Buckel, Ralph Christensen, Andreas Fischer-Lescano. 2., rework. Edition. Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-2744-9 , pp. 75-91 .
  • Jürgen Habermas: The philosopher as a true teacher of law: Rudolf Wiethölter . In: Critical Justice . tape 22 , no. 2 , 1989, ISSN  0023-4834 , pp. 138-146 , JSTOR : 23998212 ( nomos.de [PDF]).
  • Political legal theory revisited: Rudolf Wiethölter for the 100th semester . In: Christian Joerges, Peer Zumbansen (Ed.): ZERP discussion paper . No. 1/2013 . ZERP, Bremen March 1, 2013 ( uni-bremen.de [PDF] Festschrift).
  • Christian Joerges: Rudolf Wiethölter on his 90th: Political interference was a must . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 17, 2018, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net ).
  • Alexandra Kemmerer: Progressive, substantial, original . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 17, 2019, p. N3 ( faz.net - Humanities department).
  • Dan Wielsch (Ed.): Breaches of the law. Reflections of Rudolf Wiethölter's legal criticism . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8487-6430-3 (hardback edition of No. 4/2019 of the Critical Justice on the 90th birthday).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietmar Willoweit : The law degree - education with practical relevance? - Against the provincialism of German legal training. In: Winfried Böhm , Martin Lindauer (ed.): “Not much knowledge saturates the soul”. Knowledge, recognition, education, training today. (= 3rd symposium of the University of Würzburg. ) Ernst Klett, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-12-984580-1 , pp. 229–243, here: pp. 234 and 242 f.
  2. ^ Hanno Kühnen: Wiethölter to buy again. Critique of Law , Die Zeit 18/1986, April 25, 1986 (accessed April 12, 2010).
personal data
SURNAME Wiethölter, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen