Werner Niese

Werner Otto Constantin Niese (born January 31, 1905 in Saalfeld ; † May 9, 1963 in Mainz ) was a German legal scholar and professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Niese studied law at the University of Jena . There he received his doctorate in 1930 under the supervision of Karl Blomeyer with a procedural law paper on Dr. iur. He then worked as a judge at the Altenburg Regional Court and later at the Jena Higher Regional Court until 1939 . From 1940 to 1945 he did military service. After the end of the war, Niese devoted himself to his academic career again and completed his habilitation in 1949 at the University of Göttingen , with which he received the Venia legendi for criminal and criminal procedural law as well as civil procedural law.

After a lectureship at the University of Cologne in 1950/51, Niese took up an extraordinary professorship at the University of Mainz . From 1955 until his untimely death, Niese was a full professor of criminal law in Mainz as the successor to Thomas Würtenberger and from then on devoted himself mainly to criminal law, whereas his previous focus had generally been on both criminal and civil procedural law. From 1961 to 1962, Niese was dean of the law and economics faculty in Mainz. From 1956 until his death he was also a judge at the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz . Dietrich Lang-Hinrichsen succeeded his chair in Mainz .

Fonts (selection)

• Litigation and contracts for litigation . Noske, Leipzig 1931 (dissertation).
• Double-functional litigation: A contribution to general procedural law . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1950 (habilitation thesis).
• Finality, intent and negligence . Mohr, Tübingen 1951.
• Strike and Criminal Law . Mohr, Tübingen 1954.

Web links

• Werner Niese in the Mainz professor catalog