Walter Bappert

Walter Bappert (born August 5, 1894 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † February 19, 1985 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German publishing lawyer and legal historian .

Life

Walter Bappert initially studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Innsbruck from 1912 to 1914 . In 1914 he joined the 1st Badisches Leib-Dragoons Regiment No. 20 in Karlsruhe ; In 1915 he was injured in Courland . In 1918 he was seriously injured in France ; in the rank of lieutenant he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class .

After the end of the war, he studied law and economics at the universities in Freiburg and Berlin from 1919 to 1922 . In 1921 he was in Freiburg in which economists Karl Diehl with the work "The war profits tax in Germany and abroad" to Dr. rer. pole. PhD. In 1922 he passed the first state examination in law and the second state examination in 1924. From 1924 he worked as a lawyer in Staufen im Breisgau , from 1928 in Freiburg im Breisgau , and from 1935 together with Otto Rappenecker . Bappert was an original member of the KDSt.V. Hohenstaufen Freiburg im Breisgau and the KDSt.V. Bavaria Berlin, both in CV .

Walter Bappert became legal advisor at the Freiburg Herder publishing house in 1932 and, as a representative of a Catholic publishing house, increasingly had to deal with reprisals by the National Socialists; the office of Rosenberg classified many titles as not recommended , over 50 titles were banned.

Walter Bappert was a member of the Freiburg Riding and Driving Association as a military member of the First World War, which was converted into the Nazi equestrian corps as a result of National Socialist harmonization and, from 1935, into the Reiter-SA with forced recruitment of all members. After a "riding accident" in 1936, Bappert took the opportunity to make an exit plausible.

In 1937, Bappert took over the chairmanship of Caritas in Freiburg. In addition, on April 15, 1937, Archbishop Conrad Gröber appointed him advocate at the Archbishop's Office to represent clergy as criminal defense lawyers before the Nazi special courts. By 1943, Bappert had to submit activity reports to the Karlsruhe Justice Administration and was under observation by the head of the Nazi student council in Freiburg.

After the end of the war in 1946 he became legal advisor of the German Book Trade Association in Baden-Baden (French zone of occupation). In 1949 he became a member of the legal and copyright committee of the association of the book trade association and publishers in Frankfurt am Main . The law firm Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner later developed from his Freiburg office .

Bappert has published numerous specialist articles on publishing and copyright law. He was the author and editor of the standard work "Rechtsfragen des Buchhandels" (1951). With his "Commentary on the Publishing Law" (1952) he initiated a reform of the publishing law in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Together with Theodor Maunz , he published the “Handbuch zum Verlagsgesetz” in 1952; with Egon Wagner in 1956 he published a “Commentary on International Copyright”. In 1962 he presented the much-acclaimed legal-historical work “Ways to Copyright”.

In 1954 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in the Freiburg Minster on May 9, 1954 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

He had been friends with Albert Schmitt OSB, Abbot in Grüssau and Wimpfen , since school days . He was appointed professor by the state government of Baden-Württemberg .

He was married to Therese, geb. Schikorski; The art historian Inge Habig (* 1923) came from the marriage .

Web links

• Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen: Ways to publishing and copyright law: Walter Bappert (1894 - 1985) as publishing lawyer and legal historian , University of Freiburg 2003 (PDF; 1.0 MB)
• Baden-Württemberg State Archive

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brigitte Lob: "Albert Schmitt OSB, Abbot in Grüssau and Wimpfen", Böhlau Verlag 2000