Schönfelder (collection of laws)

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The loose-leaf collection called "brick".

The Schoenfelder (actually German law ) is the publisher CH Beck published collection of laws that some of the most important legal texts of German law contains. Essentially, these are civil and criminal laws (e.g. BGB and StGB). The Schönfelder thus contains the central laws of ordinary jurisdiction. The current supplementary delivery of the Schönfelder is the 178th (as of April 2020).

history

The collection with the typical red cover was founded by Heinrich Schönfelder in 1931 and is widespread in Germany. Heinrich Schönfelder was still responsible for the 13th edition from 1943. The CH Beck publishing house has continued the collection of laws since the 14th edition of 1947 . The first editions of "Schönfelder" appeared as bound books; From the 4th edition in 1935, the "Schönfelder" appeared as a loose-leaf collection , as the number of changes in the law made frequent updates necessary, which appeared in the form of subsequent deliveries. Since spring 2007 the Schönfelder has been published again as a hardback edition.

From the 7th edition of 1936, the laws with the serial numbers 1 to 19 were reserved for the laws of the Nazi dictatorship. No. 1 was reserved for the party program of the NSDAP, No. 5 to the Enabling Act and No. 12 a to the Blood Protection Act. The German Civil Code (BGB) was only given number 20, under which it can still be found today. After the war, the Nazi regulations were removed. The ordinal numbers 1 to 19 now received the enacted laws to rectify Nazi injustice. From 1947, for example, the right of the Allied Control Council u. a. on new legislation, repeal of Nazi laws and restructuring of the judiciary. The Basic Law (GG) is listed as number 1 to this day, but this has been moved to a supplementary volume since the 115th supplementary delivery in September 2002. Now the Schönfelder begins with the BGB under number 20.

content

The Schönfelder is a pure collection of texts, so it does not contain any content-related comments on the individual regulations, but only formal comments on changes in the law and a few systematic references. It is therefore not a legal comment . In addition to the BGB, the “Schönfelder” contains the Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO), the Commercial Code (HGB), the Criminal Code (StGB) and around 100 other laws.

The collection comprises around 4,000 pages and is divided into the following sections: Civil law with ancillary provisions; Commercial and company law; Securities law; Insurance law; Industrial property rights and copyright; Employment Law; Criminal law and criminal procedure law, administrative offense law; Judicial system; Law of legal professions ; Civil procedural law; Cost law; Appendix table of fees; Appendix Register symbols and subject index.

Since 2002 there has been a supplementary volume with a number of other legal texts , especially those required by lawyers . After German reunification , the "Schönfelder II" appeared with texts from civil, economic and judicial laws, which are of particular importance in relation to the former GDR .

Significance for legal training

The importance of the “Schönfelder” has been consolidated for decades in legal training by the fact that it is a daily required “tool” for prospective lawyers during their studies and legal clerkship .

A lively accessories market oriented towards this target group has therefore developed around the “Schönfelder”: register systems are offered by third-party providers that are intended to make it easier to find individual legal texts in the extensive work. Various publishers publish learning aids and collections of legal examination schemes as small loose-leaf collections of a suitable format that can be stapled in the "Schönfelder". Suitable bags and carrying devices are available for transporting the unwieldy book, which weighs almost 3 kg and is relatively sensitive due to the thin printing paper and stapling device. Matching book stands, which are usually pushed into the back of the “Schönfelder” folder, are intended to make handling easier. In addition to rigid stand constructions, special stands with a pendulum-like movable stand surface are also marketed for the "Schönfelder", which are balanced to ensure that the folder remains open at the location desired by the user.

In the student area, the “Schönfelder” has been increasingly competing for a few years from cheaper, bound legal editions from competing publishers, some of which are now also approved as aids for use in the first state examination . In the Second State Examination in Law, on the other hand, the “Schönfelder” is the only legal collection approved as an aid in most federal states for the legal matter it covers.

criticism

As with Palandt , the naming of Schönfelder is criticized because of Heinrich Schönfelder's Nazi past.

Further collections of laws

Comparable collections to other areas of law are:

In addition, almost every federal state has its own collection, in some cases even with a supplementary volume (especially the collections of the laws of the new federal states), which contain the most important state laws. Examples of this are the collections v. Hippel / Rehborn “Laws of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia ”, Dürig “Laws of the State of Baden-Württemberg ” and March “ Lower Saxony Laws”.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schönfelder | German laws. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Cornelia Vismann: Files. Media technology and law . Frankfurt am Main. 2000, pp. 285f.
  3. ↑ Martin Rath, 80 years of Schönfelder: Red standard brick, worthy of monument protection , Legal Tribune Online of March 27, 2011.
  4. ↑ Alexander Pyka: Nazi legacy lives on in German law to this day. In: world. March 5, 2013, accessed January 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Petition of the Week - Get rid of the Nazi lawyers. In: taz. October 20, 2017, accessed January 24, 2019 .