Walter Jagenburg

Walter Jagenburg (born July 21, 1937 ; † October 18, 2003 ) was a German lawyer who excelled in particular with publications in private building law .

Life

Walter Jagenburg was born as the eldest son of Rudolph Jagenburg , a lawyer admitted to the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, and his wife Hilde Jagenburg, née Riepenhausen. He grew up with his brother Peter in Düsseldorf , Ulm and Wasserburg on Lake Constance . Jagenburg studied at the Universities of Freiburg and Bonn law . After the clerkship he put in Cologne his second legal on May 2, 1965 state examination from. This was followed by admission as a lawyer at the Cologne Regional Court . In 1969 he received his doctorate . In the year of his death, he separated from his previous law firm and, together with his wife, Prof. Inge Jagenburg, and his daughter, again founded a national law firm in Cologne, Berlin and Dresden.

In 1984, in addition to his work as a lawyer, he also became a lecturer in private construction law at the University of Cologne and, in 1989, honorary professor there . He was also a lecturer at the EBS University for Economics and Law , co-founder of the German Society for Construction Law and the Society for Real Estate Research. Jagenburg was a member of the ARGE Construction Law in the German Lawyers' Association and regularly worked on the magazines Construction Law (BauR) and Real Estate and Construction Law (IBR).

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Starting with an article in the monthly for German law (“Unknown VOB - Experience from two years of building practice”, MDR 1968, 366), he regularly published on private building law. Worth mentioning are, for example, the overviews published annually in the NJW since 1969 on the development of case law on private building law; together with Walter Bindhardt he published “The Architect's Liability and His Criminal Responsibility” (8th edition 1981) and published “The private building law in the mirror of jurisdiction” (3rd edition 2000) and gave the Beck together with Ganten and Motzke 'sche VOB comment part B out. In total, published over 175 different titles over the years.

Together with Carl Soergel , Hermann Korbion and Horst Locher, he is considered to be the founder of the scientific debate on civil building law.

literature

• Klaus Brügmann (Ed.), Festschrift for Walter Jagenburg on the occasion of his 65th birthday , CH Beck, Munich, 2002, ISBN 3-406-49510-9
• Hans Ganten , obituary for Walter Jagenburg, NJW 2003, 3752

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Jagenburg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Profile at Jagenburg Lawyers