Uwe Hüffer

Uwe Hüffer (born December 5, 1939 in Lüneburg ; † December 9, 2012 ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

After studying law and the clerkship Hüffer 1970 with a comparative study of recourse against the tort tortfeasor acting on compensation of third parties for Dr. iur. PhD. In 1974 he qualified as a professor at the University of Heidelberg on the subject of performance disruptions caused by creditors' actions . In the 1977 winter semester, Hüffer became a scientific adviser, and in 1980 a full professor at Saarbrücken University . In 1985 he moved to the Ruhr University Bochum , where he held the chair for civil law, commercial law, business law including mining law and energy law until his retirement in 2005.

From 1992 onwards, Hüffer was a part-time judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court . After his retirement he worked at the Mannheim office of the law firm Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz and was also a member of the firm's supervisory board. He was the founder and, up to the 10th edition, author of the best-selling commentary on the German Stock Corporation Act , which his student Jens Koch continued after his death .

Fonts (selection)

• Recourse against the tortious perpetrator in the event of compensation payments from third parties. An investigation of the distribution of damage in the recourse path taking into account French, English and North American law (= Heidelberg comparative and commercial law studies. Vol. 3, ISSN  0170-320X ). Winter, Heidelberg 1970 (dissertation, Heidelberg University, 1970).
• Disturbances in performance due to the acts of creditors. A comparative legal study of the obligee's involvement in the performance of the contract with special consideration of the mutual contracts (= writings on civil law. Vol. 29). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-428-03633-6 (habilitation thesis, University of Heidelberg, 1974).
• Association and Society. Cases and explanations of the societies and corporations of civil law and commercial law (= series of publications of the legal training. Vol. 57). Beck, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-406-06887-1 (from 2nd edition as: Corporate Law .; 8th, completely revised edition. Ibid 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62687-6 ).
• Stock Corporation Act. Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-37322-4 (10th, revised edition. (= Beck'sche Kurz-Kommentare. Vol. 53). Ibid. 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63345-4 ).

literature

• Peter Kindler , Jens Koch, Peter Ulmer , Martin Winter (eds.): Festschrift for Uwe Hüffer on his 70th birthday. Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59297-3 .
• Wulf Goette : Uwe Hüffer †. In: New journal for corporate law . (NZG). Volume 16, Issue 1, 2013, p. 21 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Uwe Hüffer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae from the foreword of the Festschrift