Tilman Repgen

Tilman Repgen (born March 26, 1964 in Saarbrücken ) is a German legal historian .

Tilman Repgen is a son of Konrad Repgen . He graduated from high school in 1983 and studied law at the Universities of Trier and Cologne from 1984 to 1990 . Repgen received his doctorate in 1993 in Cologne with the work Praecise cogi ? , supervised by Klaus Luig and Karin Nehlsen-von Stryk . On the fulfillment claim in recent private law history . In 1994 he passed his second state law examination. Since 1994 he has been working as a research assistant at the University of Cologne . His habilitation took place in 2000 with Klaus Luig in Cologne. He took over a professorship at the University of Mainz (2000/2001), the University of Tübingen and the University of Augsburg .

Since 2002 he has held the chair for German legal history, modern private law history and civil law at the University of Hamburg . Repgen has been director of the Central Law Library at the University of Hamburg since 2006. In addition, the legal historian has held the office of dean of the law faculty of the University of Hamburg since October 2010. During the time of his deanship, the controversial reassignment of the professorship for public law, finance and tax law to a professorship for public law and maritime law took place. Since 2012 he has been a member of the board of directors of the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law at the University of Hamburg. In 2012, he turned down a professorship for recent legal history and civil law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

His main research interests are Hamburg law in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period, the history of the BGB from 1900, the history of tenancy law and the burden of proof in the law of obligations.

Fonts

• The social task of private law. A basic question in science and codification at the end of the 19th century (= Jus Privatum. Contributions to private law. Vol. 60). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147516-X .
• No farewell to private autonomy. The function of mandatory law in the consumer goods purchase directive (= legal and political science publications of the Görres Society. New series, vol. 95). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2001, ISBN 3-506-73396-6 .
• Contract loyalty and obligation to perform in medieval jurisprudence (= legal and political publications of the Görres Society. New series, vol. 73). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1994, ISBN 3-506-73373-7 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Tilman Repgen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Repgen at the University of Hamburg

Remarks

1. ↑ Olliver Hollenstein: Hard to steer. In: ZEIT Hamburg No. 32/2016, July 28, 2016. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .