Ulrich Spellenberg

Ulrich Spellenberg (born May 27, 1940 in Friedrichshafen ) is a German law scholar and former professor at the University of Bayreuth .

life and work

Spellenberg studied after graduating from high school in 1959, first story at the University of Marburg , but changed already in the following semester, the study of the law . He studied oriental studies as a minor . In 1964 he completed his legal studies at the University of Göttingen and subsequently did his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Celle . In 1969 he passed his state law examination . He then worked as a research assistant to Bruno Rimmelspacher at Bielefeld University . His doctorate as Dr. iur. Spellenberg graduated from the University of Göttingen in 1971 on a bankruptcy law subject under the supervision of Wolfram Henckel . In 1973 Spellenberg followed Rimmelspacher as an assistant when he moved to the University of Munich , where he completed his habilitation in 1977 with a thesis under international private law. Spellenberg acquired the venia legendi for the subjects civil law, civil procedural law, international private law and comparative law.

After acting as professor at the Universities of Bonn , Augsburg and Hanover , Spellenberg accepted a professorship from the University of Bayreuth in 1979 , where he held the full professorship for civil law, in particular international private law and comparative law, until his retirement in 2005. In addition, he has been a permanent visiting professor at the University of Bordeaux since 1979 , which awarded him an honorary doctorate in January 2006 . From 1990 to 1992 he was also dean of the Bayreuth Faculty of Law and Economics.

Spellenberg's research focuses primarily on German, French and international family and inheritance law as well as comparative and international civil and civil procedural law. For many years he was a commentator on other parts of international private law in the Munich Commentary on the Civil Code as well as the EuEheGVO and other international family law provisions in the Staudinger .

Fonts (selection)

• On the subject of the bankruptcy determination procedure (§§ 138 ff. KO). Debt and liability in bankruptcy . O. Schwartz, Göttingen 1973 (dissertation).
• Business statute and power of attorney in private international law . CH Beck, Munich 1979, ISBN 978-3-406-05440-2 (habilitation thesis).

literature

• Jörn Bernreuther , Robert Freitag , Stefan Leible , Harald Sippel and Ulrike Wanitzek (Hrsg.er): Festschrift for Ulrich Spellenberg on his 70th birthday . sellier european law publishers, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86653-148-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Spellenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Spellenberg at his former chair at the University of Bayreuth