Walter Gerhardt

Walter Gerhardt (born October 18, 1934 in Düsseldorf ) is a German lawyer and university professor.

Life

Walter Gerhardt was born in Düsseldorf in 1934. After finishing school in Braunschweig and Dortmund he studied in Tübingen, Berlin and Goettingen jurisprudence and laid 1959 his state examination from. In 1962 he was at the University of Goettingen in Gerd Rinck with the thesis "acting at their own risk" doctorate . The assessor examination in 1964 in Düsseldorf was followed by an assistantship with Wolfram Henckel , again in Göttingen ; After a further monograph on the claim to exemption (1966), Gerhardt completed his habilitation in 1968 with a thesis on "The systematic classification of the denial of creditors". In 1972 Gerhardt accepted a professorship for civil law and civil procedural law at the University of Bonn , to which he remained loyal despite several appointments until his retirement in 1999.

Walter Gerhardt's main scientific interests, in which he also published extensively, lie in the areas of civil law as well as civil procedure and insolvency law . From 1978 to 1985 Gerhardt was a member of the Federal Ministry of Justice's commission to reform insolvency law and chairman of the working group on the right to challenge . He is co-editor of the major commentary on the insolvency regulation founded by Ernst Jaeger . In 2004 Gerhardt was honored with a festschrift on the occasion of his 70th birthday .

Married and father of one son and one daughter. Gerhardt is the grandfather of six grandchildren.

Since 1955 he has been a member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen .

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Gerhardt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the whole, see Eberhard Schilken et al., Festschrift for Walter Gerhardt on his 70th birthday, Cologne 2004 ( ISBN 3-8145-8123-7 ), pp. V - VIII.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 39 , 1140.