Wilhelm Kisch (lawyer)

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Wilhelm Kisch (born December 12, 1874 in Diedolshausen in Upper Alsace ; † March 9, 1952 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and professor of civil law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Live and act

The son of the customs officer Kisch attended high schools in Metz and Saargemünd until 1893 and studied law in Strasbourg i. E. He passed the first state examination in 1897, received his doctorate and qualified as a professor at the University of Strasbourg . In 1901 he passed the assessor's examination and in 1902 was appointed professor of civil and procedural law. He moved to Munich in 1916; He then turned down calls to Erlangen, Würzburg, Prague and Berlin. He has written numerous works on civil law , civil procedure law , bankruptcy law , insurance law and patent law . He worked as an appraiser for the insurance industry, and in 1940 he presented an anniversary publication for Allianz insurance .

On June 26, 1933, Kisch was co-founder and deputy president of the Academy for German Law under Hans Frank , whose teacher he was, chairman of the committee for civil justice, chairman of the German working group for industrial legal protection and copyright, and a member of the committee for legal philosophy .

In 1935 he allegedly resigned from teaching for health reasons (hip problems since childhood) and gave up his lectures. In 1937, he ended his work as deputy president at the academy. His successor was Carl August Emge . In 1939 Kisch was one of the many authors in the Festschrift for the Führer on his 50th birthday . The title of his contribution was "Civil Procedure Law".

According to his own statements, he had refused membership in the NSDAP in 1946. According to his own statements (1947), he wanted to support a moderate trend with his activities and prevent radical reforms (proposals from the Kiel School ). The National Socialist reform plans for the stock corporation, the GmbH and the cooperative were rejected in the committees.

After the end of World War II, he was initially charged as the main culprit in his denazification proceedings . His defense was recognized in the Spruchkammer proceedings , in which he was defended by Fritz Ostler , and he was classified as not affected.

Robert Schuman was one of his Strasbourg students and Hans Frank was his most prominent student .

Fonts (selection)

  • The work of the Academy for German Law. Speech d. Privy Councilor Professor Dr. Wilhelm Kisch on the occasion of d. Boarding school Congress f. commercial Legal protection on June 2, 1936 .
  • The German law teacher , 1939.
  • The insurance policy, at the same time a contribution to the teaching of the conclusion of the contract and the legally relevant documents (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1951, Volume 13).

literature

  • Susanne Adlberger: Wilhelm Kisch - Life and Work (1874–1952). From the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg to the National Socialist Academy for German Law , Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2007.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 311.
  • Rebekka Übler: Wilhelm Kisch (1874-1952) . In: Simon Apel, Louis Pahlow , Matthias Wießner (eds.): Biographisches Handbuch des Intellectual Property , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, pp. 154–156.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Frank: In the face of the gallows , Munich 1953, p. 1756. Quoted from: Hans-Reiner Pichinot: The Academy for German Law . Kiel 1981, p. 11.
  2. ↑ "German science. Work and task. German science gives an account of the Führer and Reich Chancellor on his 50th birthday ..." Leipzig: Hirzel 1939, pp. 70–72
  3. ↑ a b Fritz Ostler: The Law for the Liberation from National Socialism and Militarism of March 5, 1946 and its implementation. Personal experiences and memories . New legal weekly. 49 (13) March 27, 1996, p. 824.
personal data
SURNAME Kisch, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Diedolshausen
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1952
Place of death Munich