Theodor Niemeyer

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Theodor Hugo Edwin Niemeyer (born February 5, 1857 in Boll , Württemberg; † October 23, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German international lawyer and university professor .

Life

Niemeyer grew up in Warburg . His father was the Justizrat Hans Niemeyer , his brother Adelbert Niemeyer became an architect and painter in Munich. Niemeyer attended the Marianum grammar school in Warburg and the Görres grammar school in Düsseldorf, where he passed the school leaving examination in 1875 . He then studied law and economics from 1875 to 1878 at the University of Leipzig , the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In the winter of 1875/1876 he became a member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli . In 1879 he passed the legal trainee examination at the Chamber Court . He completed his legal preparatory service at courts in Essen , Münster , Mülheim an der Ruhr and Berlin. In 1883 he became an assessor and later a district judge at the district court in Unna . In the three emperor year 1888 he did his doctorate and habilitation at the Friedrichs-Universität Halle on Roman law .

In 1893 he became an associate professor at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and in 1894 professor for Roman and civil law. In 1907/1908 he was rector of the Christian Albrechts University. His rector's speech on March 5, 1907 dealt with the topic of international law and national interest . From 1894 to 1907 he taught international law at the Kiel Naval Academy . In 1912 his chair was transformed into a professorship for international law and colonial law . In 1915 he founded Niemeyer's magazine for international law . As a co-founder of the International Law Association , he was its vice-president. In addition, Niemeyer worked as a consultant for the Imperial Navy and the Foreign Office . In 1917 he was a co-founder of the German Society for International Law .

After the First World War he advocated the establishment of a just European peace order and dealt with questions of arms control .

Theodor Niemeyer had six children. He was the father of the painter Otto Niemeyer-Holstein and the architect and painter Johannes Niemeyer .

Fonts

author

  • Depositum irregular. Max Niemeyer, Halle 1889 (dissertation, University of Halle, 1888).
  • Positive private international law. 1st part: The international private law applicable in Germany. Leipzig 1894.
  • Proposals and materials for the codification of private international law , Leipzig 1895.
  • The international private law of the civil code (= the law of the civil code in individual representations. Vol. 11). Berlin 1901.
  • Document book on naval warfare law, Berlin 1913.
  • International private law. In: Philipp Zorn , Herbert von Berger (editors): Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Ed. By Siegfried Körte , Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell and others 3 volumes. Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1914.
  • On the prehistory of international private law in the German civil code ("the Gebhard materials") , Munich 1915.
  • Belgium and its neutralization , Munich 1917.
  • International law, Berlin 1923.
  • under the pseudonym "TH Neomario": History of the City of Rome. 2 volumes. Self-published, Kiel-Kitzeberg 1931/1933.
  • ( posthumously ) memories and reflections from three generations. From the estate, ed. by Annemarie Niemeyer. Mühlau, Kiel 1963 (with list of publications).

editor

  • Niemeyer's journal for international law. Vahlen, Berlin 1915–1937.
  • Handbook of the Disarmament Problem. Edited on behalf of the German Study Committee for Peacekeeping Issues. Dr. W. Rothschild, Berlin-Grunewald 1928.

literature

  • Jost Delbrück :  Niemeyer, Theodor Hugo Edwin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 235 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ludwig Weingärtner, Victor Niemeyer, Theodor Niemeyer: "The paradise of our Warburg childhood". Memories from the 19th century (= series of publications by the Museum Association Warburg eV, Vol. 4). Edited by Wilhelm Bockelkamp. Hermes, Warburg 1992, ISBN 3-922032-18-4 .
  • Alexander Bader: Life and Work of the Secret Justice Council Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Theodor Niemeyer. A biography with special consideration of his work in the field of international private law at the time of the creation and entry into force of the introductory law to the BGB on January 1, 1900. Shaker, Aachen 2001, ISBN 978-3-8265-9524-0 (dissertation, University of Kiel , 2001).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete directory of the Paulines from summer 1822 to summer 1938. Leipzig 1938, p. 63.
  2. ↑ Rector's speech (HKM)
  3. ↑ http://www.gelehrtenverzeichnis.de/person/8d7f9321-b496-ff36-6a34-4d4c60667fc9?lang=de
personal data
SURNAME Niemeyer, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niemeyer, Theodor Hugo Edwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German international lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Boll
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1939
Place of death Berlin