Wilhelm Felgentraeger

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Wilhelm Felgentraeger (born January 19, 1899 in Berlin ; † October 20, 1980 in Hamburg ) was a German legal scholar and long-time president of the German University Association .

Life

Wilhelm Felgentraeger was born as the son of Wilhelm Felgentraeger senior, President of the Reich Institute for Weights and Measures , and attended grammar school from 1909 to 1917. After attending school, he did military service in the First World War , where he was seriously wounded. From 1918 to 1922 Felgentraeger studied mechanical engineering at the TH Charlottenburg . Because of the consequences of his war wound, he broke off his studies and began a law degree, which he completed in Berlin and Göttingen . In 1926 he received his doctorate and passed the first state examination in law. He was then from 1926 to 1929 court trainee in Celle and faculty assistant in Göttingen. The second state examination in law followed in 1929. In 1930 he completed his habilitation at the University of Freiburg / Br. from and became a private lecturer in Roman civil law in the same year . Similar to Franz Wieacker , Felgentraeger's work was influenced by Fritz Pringsheim and, through him, by Ludwig Mitteis . In Freiburg he became associate professor in 1934 and full professor in 1935 . As chancellor of the university, he was at the same time head of the student union and the international office . In 1934 he became a member of the Academy for German Law , where he held a chair and was secretary of class I. In 1936 he was appointed to the University of Marburg and in 1940 to Breslau . The NSDAP stepped Felgentraeger on May 1, 1937th

In 1945 he fled from the Red Army and became a lecturer in Göttingen . In 1949 he became full professor for Roman and German civil law at the University of Hamburg . He retired in Hamburg in 1967. Felgentraeger was President of the German University Association from 1950 to 1969. In 1957 he was made an honorary senator of the University of Freiburg.

literature

  • Franz Bauer : History of the German University Association , Munich 2000, p. 29 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Zimmermann : Today's Law, Roman Law and Today's Roman Law . In: Reinhard Zimmermann u. a. (Ed.): Legal history and private law dogmatics. CF Müller, Heidelberg 1999, pp. 1-39 (23).
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 147
  3. ^ Franz Bauer : History of the German University Association , Munich 2000, p. 99.
personal data
SURNAME Felgentraeger, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, President of the German University Association
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th October 1980
Place of death Hamburg