Walther Neye

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Walther Neye (born July 24, 1901 in Arnsberg ; † August 12, 1989 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and from 1952 to 1957 rector of the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

Youth and education

After attending a humanistic grammar school in Potsdam , he passed the Abitur in 1919. He then joined the Upper Silesian Border Guard, an association that was set up by the Council of People's Representatives to protect the German eastern border because of border disputes with Poland (see also Eastern Border Guard ). In autumn 1919 he began studying law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and graduated in 1923 with a distinction . This was followed in 1924 with a doctorate on the subject of power of attorney beyond death, especially when the authorized representative was appointed at the University of Breslau and then the legal clerkship , which he completed in 1927 with the second state examination. During his legal clerkship until 1935, he also worked as a tutor .

Professional career up to the end of the war

In 1928, Neye settled in Berlin as a lawyer. When the National Socialists took power in 1933 , he joined the National Socialist German Workers 'Party (NSDAP) and the National Socialist Lawyers' Association a short time later . On June 15, 1938, he was also appointed notary in the district of the Berlin-Charlottenburg district court . From the summer of 1938, the law enforcement association sought a court of honor against Neye because he had sold a piece of land to a Jewish woman. There was a note in the files of the district court president, no official criminal proceedings were taken. Instead, he was judged very positively by the district court president in 1939.

In February 1940, after signing a service contract, he joined the Reich Ministry of Aviation and worked there as a consultant in the industry department. From October 1941 to November 1942 he worked as a notary again before he was assigned to the occupied Netherlands . There he was employed in the administration of the Philips group in Eindhoven until 1944 .

Post-war activity

After Neye had affirmed to the Greater Berlin magistrate that he had not been a member of the NSDAP, he was provisionally admitted to the Berlin bar in June 1945 and provisionally reappointed notary in July 1945. Until 1947 he worked as a lawyer and notary.

From the winter semester of 1946/47 onwards, Neye held a teaching position in private law at Humboldt University. When applying, he again affirmed that he was not a member of the NSDAP and that he had always been critical of the regime under Adolf Hitler . The decisive factor for the dean of the law faculty, Hans Peters, was Neye's activity and experience as a tutor. For the appointment, Neye benefited from the shortage of suitable law university lecturers. In response to a request from the University of Rostock for a suitable university lecturer for civil law, the university was named Neye by the German Central Administration for National Education (DVV) in 1947 . In the negotiations that followed, the Rostock University offered him an extraordinary professorship for civil law without having to write a habilitation . He was then appointed full professor in Berlin in October 1947. Rostock then proposed him as full professor in December 1947 , but the DVV decided that he was initially indispensable in Berlin - partly because of the departure of Professor Heinrich Mitteis . In July 1948 it was decided in Berlin to have Neye appointed full professor. On October 20, 1948, the President of DVV Paul Wandel was appointed full professor for private law at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

In 1950 Neye became the dean of the law faculty at Berlin University and was then rector of the Humboldt University from 1952 to 1957. When he was appointed rector, he prevailed against the economist Jürgen Kuczynski in the science department of the Central Committee of the SED . In 1952 he became a member of the GDR Peace Council . In 1954 Walther Neye was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit for the first time . Like many artists and scientists, he lived at 201 Street . In 1960 he was honored with the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold. In 1963 Neye joined the SED and in May 1963 became chairman of the commission for UNESCO work in the GDR. In 1966 he became director of the chair for West German and foreign civil law. On September 1, 1967, he retired .

Neye was a co-initiator of the Grosscourth Committee and a member of the Presidium of the German Peace Council .

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  1. ↑ http://www.max-lingner-stiftung.de/intellektivensiedlung
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 12, 1960, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Neye, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, university professor and university rector
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsberg
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1989
Place of death Berlin