Ulrich von Lübenow

Ulrich von Lübenow (born August 21, 1900 in Demmin ; † April 29, 1995 in Berlin ) was a German legal scholar .

life and work

Ulrich von Lübenow attended high school in Demmin and then studied law at the universities of Greifswald and Freiburg . In Greifswald he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . He then prepared for the assessor exam, which he completed in 1926, and worked as a judge at the district and regional court in civil and criminal matters, in voluntary jurisdiction and in labor law.

In addition, von Lübenow pursued an academic career, to which his academic teacher Fritz Klingmüller encouraged him. In 1932 he completed his habilitation in Greifswald. During the National Socialist era , he kept his distance from the regime and was classified as politically suspicious after he had not participated in events organized by the Nazi lecturers' association . Thanks to the advocacy of his colleagues and his academic achievements, he was still able to pursue his academic career. After substituting professorships in Marburg , Freiburg, Cologne and Rostock , he was appointed Associate Professor of Law at the University of Cologne in 1939. As early as 1940 he switched to a full professorship in Rostock. Shortly before the end of the Second World War , he received a call from the University of Marburg, which was not realized in the post-war period.

After the establishment of the Free University of Berlin (1948), von Lübenow moved there to a chair for Roman law, civil law and civil procedural law. He held this chair until his retirement (1968). He was several times a member of the Senate, Dean of the Law Faculty and acted as a disciplinary examining magistrate at the university.

As a legal historian, Ulrich von Lübenow represented a historical-dogmatic method, according to which he analyzed the origin and development of historical European or Indo-European legal forms and brought them into connection with legal institutions and models of thought of the applicable law. He explained his principles in 1954 in the text Reflections on Being and Becoming in Legal History . He also asked for it in reviews from his colleagues.

Ulrich von Lübenow died in Berlin in 1995 at the age of 94. His grave is in the Zehlendorf cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

• The edict title "Quod metus causa gestum erit" . Greifswald 1933 (habilitation thesis)
• Gifts from parents to their minor children and the reservation of rights in rem . Lahr 1949
• Contributions to the doctrine of the condictio according to Roman and current law . Berlin 1952
• The flowering and decay of Roman freedom. Reflections on the cultural and constitutional history of the West . Berlin 1953
• Reflections on being and becoming in legal history . Berlin 1954
• The Roman People: Its State and Its Law . Frankfurt am Main 1955
• Guidelines for the preparation of practice and examination papers in civil law, commercial and labor law as well as three solutions of practical cases . Frankfurt am Main 1962. Second edition, Berlin 1986
• The evolution from professors of law to members of judicial examinations . Berlin 1964
• The development of the loan concept in Roman and current law. With contributions to novation and delegation . Berlin 1965
• University autonomy or heteronomy . Frankfurt am Main 1966
• Problems of inheritance law . Berlin 1967
• The legal status of the exempt professors . Berlin 1967
• Inheritance Law: A Systematic Presentation . Two volumes, Berlin 1971
• Investigations on the lex Aquilia de damno iniuria dato . Berlin 1971
• Freedom, illustrated using the example of the rise and fall of the Roman libertas. Balance sheet and perspectives . Rheinfelden / Freiburg i.Br./Berlin 1988 (revision of the bloom and decline of Roman freedom ). Second, revised edition, Rheinfelden / Berlin 1993
• The importance of Roman law for our legal culture . Rheinfelden / Freiburg i.Br./Berlin 1989
• Collected Writings . Eight volumes, Rheinfelden / Freiburg i.Br./Berlin 1989–1990
• Writings on Roman history . Five volumes, Rheinfelden / Berlin 1993
• Contributions to the history of Roman law . Second edition. Four volumes, Rheinfelden / Berlin 1996
• Legal history studies . Three volumes, Rheinfelden / Berlin 1997

literature

• Walter G. Becker, Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld (ed.): Being and becoming in the right. Ceremony for Ulrich von Lübenow on his 70th birthday . Berlin 1970
• Manfred Harder , Georg Thielmann (eds.): De iustitia et de iure: Festgabe for Ulrich von Lübenow for his 80th birthday . Berlin 1980
• Klaus Slapnicar (ed.): Tradition and further development in law: Festschrift for the 90th birthday of Ulrich von Lübenow . Rheinfelden / Berlin 1991
• Manfred Harder: In memoriam Ulrich von Lübenow (1900–1995) . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Romance Department . 113: 733-741 (1996)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich von Lübenow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Ulrich von Lübenow in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

• Literature about Ulrich von Lübenow in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 676.