Wilhelm Röhl

This article deals with a German judge and legal historian; for the German pharmacologist and physician, see Wilhelm Roehl .

Wilhelm Röhl (2001)

Wilhelm Röhl (born April 26, 1922 in Hamburg ; † December 28, 2014 there ) was a German judge and ministerial official. He was one of the leading experts on Japanese legal history.

Life

Röhl studied law at the University of Hamburg , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Strasbourg . As the nephew of Strasbourg Swabia , he was one of the founders of the “Rudolf von Bennigsen” comradeship in 1941 , which had returned to Strasbourg for the Corps Suevia after the campaign in the west . He received the Swabian Ribbon in 1949. He was interested in Japanese Studies while still studying . The University of Hamburg received his doctorate in 1950 as Dr. iur. After the assessor examination, he came to the Hamburg district court as a judge in 1952 . He also studied Japanese legal history. In 1955 the doctorate to Dr. phil. At the end of the 1950s, he established the German Culture Institute in Tokyo , the forerunner of the Goethe Institute . His Japanese colleagues addressed him with the honorary title “Master Röhl”. Vice-President of the Hamburg Regional Court since 1968, he ran for the new office of President of the University of Hamburg in 1969, willy-nilly . He was defeated by Peter Fischer-Appelt . He turned down the call of the Ruhr University Bochum . In 1972 he became a Senate Director in the judicial authority . Eva Leithäuser , Justice Senator in Hamburg from 1979 to 1986, held him in high regard . In 1987 he retired .

He was politically active as chairman of the Deutscher Juristentag eV, whose permanent deputation he was a member from 1964 to 1978 and whose chairman he was from 1970 to 1976. He was also President of three Legal Days (1972, 1974, 1976). In 1988 he helped found the German-Japanese Lawyers Association in Hamburg. Since then, it has had around 700 members in Germany and Japan, organizes lectures and symposia in both countries and publishes the comprehensive journal for Japanese law that appears twice a year . Initially, Röhl was president of the association. From January 17, 1969 to April 25, 2002 he was Dominus Praeses of the Academic Club in Hamburg . On January 13, 2015, he was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery.

Honors

• President of the German Lawyers Association (1972, 1974, 1976)
• Honorary member of the AC zu Hamburg
• Honorary President of the German-Japanese Lawyers Association

Works

• Foreign Influences in Modern Japanese Law , 1959.
• Jinkaishû. A Contribution to Medieval Japanese Law , 1960.
• with Tsuyoshi Kurokawa: Germany sketch , 1964.
• The Japanese Constitution , 1963.
• Twenty Years of New Justice in Japan . Institute for Asian Studies, Hamburg 1969.
• Comparisons in public law - parliamentarism, state and religion, court system , in: Helmut Coing: The Japaneseization of Western Law . Tübingen 1990, pp. 103-118, ISBN 3-16-645540-X , GoogleBooks
• History of Law in Japan since 1868 . Brill , Leiden Boston 2005, ISBN 90-04-1316-47 . Online version (Handbook of Oriental Studies) - GoogleBooks

See also

• SC Comradeships # Strasbourg
• History of Japanese Law

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Röhl in the catalog of the German National Library
• DJJV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 101/279.
2. ↑ Legal dissertation: The immunity of the members of the Hamburg citizenship according to the provisional constitution of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg of May 15, 1946 .
3. ^ Philosophical dissertation: The first diplomatic relations between Japan and Siam at the beginning of the 17th century .
4. ↑ Presidential election of the University of Hamburg in 1969 ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Paths of Life (FAZ)