Werner Bienwald

Werner Bienwald (born July 6, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German university professor, lawyer and specialist legal author. For many years he was a professor at the Evangelical University of Applied Sciences in Hanover and temporarily its rector. Bienwald is known in legal circles as the author of a standard commentary on supervision law. He is also one of the co-editors of the legal journal FamRZ .

Life

In 1945 Bienwald became a half orphan because his father died in captivity. After Berlin was divided into four sectors, Bienwald lived in the Soviet sector in East Berlin, where he also graduated from high school in 1955. He then began training as a church administrator at the Berlin City Synodal Association, which he completed in 1957. In order to be able to begin studying at the Free University of Berlin , Bienwald first had to take a high school diploma in West Berlin. After successfully passing this, he began to study law at the FU in 1958. At first, Bienwald did not change his place of residence, so he was considered a so-called border commuter. The construction of the Wall on August 13, 1961 initially interrupted his studies. Then Bienwald worked again at the Berlin City Synodal Association until he managed to escape to West Berlin. Some time later he went to Göttingen , where he completed his studies at the university there. In 1964, however, Bienwald took his first state examination in Oldenburg. During his legal traineeship, Bienwald went back to his hometown in West Berlin. This activity was supplemented by a voluntary station at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . In 1968, the now married father of one child passed the second state examination in law and then joined the Berlin judiciary as an assessor . In July 1971 Bienwald was appointed district judge, a month later he followed the call of the newly founded Evangelical University of Applied Sciences in Hanover , where he initially worked as a lecturer. In 1976 he finally received a professorship. Until his retirement, the university was Bienwald's professional focus, and between 1975 and 1978 he was its rector. His teaching activities focused on civil law and civil procedural law, as well as the areas of child, guardianship, guardianship and care law. In 1992 , Bienwald received his doctorate from the University of Hanover on the legal status of the frail carer . Werner Bienwald has been officially admitted to the bar again since 2002 and runs a law firm in Oldenburg.

Scientific work

Werner Bienwald's name is initially inextricably linked with the legal area of ​​care law, which he has accompanied with a standard commentary on care law since 1992 when the Care Act came into force. The 6th edition of this comment has now been published. The scientific penetration of this field of law is flanked by numerous articles and decision comments in specialist journals. Since 1998 Bienwald has been the editor of the magazine FamRZ , where he deals with the areas of guardianship, guardianship, care and accommodation law. In addition, since the 12th edition of the BGB commentary by Staudinger , he has been commenting on the area of ​​care law, and since the 14th edition also on the remuneration regulations of §§ 1835 to 1836e BGB.

Fonts (selection)

• Criminal law and criminal procedure law , Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne, Mainz: Kohlhammer 1973, ISBN 978-3-17-001270-7 .
• Investigations into the legal status of the frail person: taking into account drafts of a law on the care of adults; (Care Act - BtG) , Baden-Baden: Nomos 1992, ISBN 978-3-7890-2570-9 .
• Guardianship and guardianship law in social work: including housing law (practical social work, volume 5), Heidelberg: Müller 1982, ISBN 978-3-8114-3382-3 .
• with Susanne Sonnenfeld and Christa Bienwald (eds.): Supervision law: substantive and procedural law, remuneration law, BtBG and state law. Commentary , Bielefeld: Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, 6th edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-7694-1134-8 .

literature

• Foreword to the Festschrift by Susanne Sonnenfeld: Non-everyday questions from everyday life in the care law: Festschrift for Werner Bienwald on his 70th birthday on July 6, 2006 , Gieseking-Verlag 2006, ISBN 9783769409932 .
• Birgit Hoffmann, Werner Bienwald on his 70th birthday in FamRZ 2006, 912

Web links

Homepage of the law firm with photo by Werner Bienwald