Siegfried Reicke

Siegfried Reicke (born May 19, 1897 in Nuremberg , † April 12, 1972 in Heidelberg ) was a German legal scholar , legal historian and canon lawyer . Among other things, he acted as rector of Heidelberg University and president of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Live and act

Siegfried Reicke grew up in Nuremberg as the son of the local archives director Emil Reicke and became interested in German legal history at an early age. He first studied history and German linguistics in Munich , Berlin and Erlangen before switching to law. After the first and second state exams, he received his doctorate in law at the University of Erlangen in 1924 , whereupon Reicke briefly worked as a public prosecutor, before deciding on an academic career. He completed his habilitation in 1931 with Ulrich Stutz in Berlin for German law and canon law .

At the time of National Socialism Reicke worked from 1933 to 1936 as a full professor in Königsberg , then in Marburg and from 1941 at the Berlin University , where he was director of the canon law institute. He became the "coordinator of legal historians in the war effort of the humanities ".

After the end of the Second World War , Reicke became full professor again in Marburg in 1945 and moved from there to the University of Göttingen in 1946 . Finally he was called to Heidelberg, where he was appointed full professor at the Institute for Historical Jurisprudence on November 21, 1949, where he remained until his retirement on September 30, 1965. In 1954 he received a call to Munich, which, like numerous calls before, he refused. In the year 1957/58 Reicke was rector of the University of Heidelberg, as such until 1960 President of the Baden-Württemberg Rectors' Conference. 1962 to 1964 Reicke was also President of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

From 1951 Reicke was acting head of the German legal dictionary . He also worked as a committed member of the EKD ; In 1960 he was appointed as assessor of the administrative court of the Evangelical Church in Baden . 1961 to 1966 he was co-editor of the magazine of the Savigny Foundation for legal history . Among other things, Reicke is a co-founder of the Friends' Association of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and the Heidelberg Yearbooks. He died after a serious illness on April 12, 1972 in Heidelberg.

Honors

• 1934 member of the Königsberg learned society
• 1942 member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
• 1952 member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
• 1964 Honorary doctorate from the Heidelberg Theological Faculty.

Fonts (selection)

• City parish and parish churches of the imperial city of Nuremberg in the 14th century. Nuremberg 1925 (dissertation).
• The German hospital and its law in the Middle Ages. 2 volumes. Stuttgart 1932 (= canonical treatises. Vol. 111–114); Reprinted Amsterdam 1961. Also habilitation thesis.
• Canon Law. Marburg an der Lahn 1950.

literature

• Martin Heckel : Siegfried Reicke † (obituary). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Canonical Department 84 (1967), XI – XIX.
• Gerhard Köbler : German legal historians , Gießen 2006, p. 187 f.
• Heinrich Schipperges : Siegfried Reicke (obituary). In: Heidelberger Jahrbücher 16 (1972), pp. 1–3.
• Klaus-Peter Schroeder : A university for lawyers and by lawyers. The Heidelberg Faculty of Law in the 19th and 20th centuries. Tübingen 2010, pp. 643-646.

Web links

• Literature by and about Siegfried Reicke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Estate directory in the Heidelberg University Archives
• Entry in Gerhard Köbler's biographical directory

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 486
2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Siegfried Reicke. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed June 1, 2015 .