Walter Hellebrand

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Walter Hellebrand (born June 11, 1907 in Vienna ; † September 21, 1998 in Lonay ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Walter Hellebrand, the son of geodesist Emil Hellebrand (1877–1957), studied law at the University of Vienna after graduating from high school and was awarded a doctorate in 1931. iur. PhD . He then deepened his studies at the universities of Innsbruck and Munich , specializing in ancient legal history.

At that time, Hellebrand was politically on the right-wing spectrum: he had been a member of the NSDAP since December 1, 1930 . After the NSDAP was banned in Austria (1933), Hellebrand emigrated to the German Reich in 1934 to begin his academic career there. He worked as adjunct assistant professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Leipzig , where he in 1936 with a study on the Law of Ptolemaic habilitated . From 1936 to 1939 he worked as an assistant at the Institute for Legal History of the Ancient Orient at Berlin University , which in 1937 appointed him lecturer for legal papyrology , Greek-Hellenistic and Roman as well as civil law.

From 1939 Hellebrand represented law chairs in Kiel , Rostock and Halle (Saale) . During the Second World War he served from 1941 in the substitute interpreter department of the Army High Command . He was not able to enjoy his appointment as associate professor in Halle (1944) for long: towards the end of the war he was taken prisoner and was released from the University of Halle. After his release to Austria, he went to the University of Heidelberg , where he was hired in 1952 as a “Professor for Reuse”. In 1958 he was appointed associate professor for the history of law of antiquity, especially Roman and Greek law. In 1972 he retired .

Hellebrand's research encompassed Roman and Greek legal and religious history and Greek legal philosophy as well as modern scientific history and methodological issues. He has also written articles for Pauly's Real Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity (RE).

Fonts (selection)

  • The trial certificate in the rights of the Graeco-Egyptian papyri. First part: The function of the witness in Ptolemaic procedural law . Munich 1934 (habilitation thesis)
  • Labor law in the Zenon papyri . In: Festschrift for Paul Koschaker Volume III, Weimar 1939, pp. 241–267
  • The legal function of legal history . In: Ius et lex. Ceremony for Max Gutzwiller's 70th birthday . Basel 1959, pp. 135-147

literature

  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986 . Berlin / Heidelberg 2009, p. 264

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personal data
SURNAME Hellebrand, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellebrand, Walter Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1998
Place of death Lonay