Wilhelm Scheuerle

Wilhelm Alexander Scheuerle (born July 3, 1911 in Nuremberg ; † March 7, 1981 in Heidesheim am Rhein ) was a German law scholar and professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

Life

From 1930, Scheuerle studied law and economics at the University of Munich . After spending the summer semester of 1931 at the University of Kiel , he passed his first state examination in law in Munich in October 1933, followed by a diploma in economics in May 1934. In the same year Scheuerle doctorate at Bernhard Kübler at the University of Erlangen Dr. iur. After the subsequent legal clerkship and the second state examination in 1937, Scheuerle worked as in-house counsel for the city of Nuremberg from 1938 . He resumed this activity after the Second World War , in which Scheuerle had served in the Wehrmacht as a soldier. In 1957 he completed his habilitation at the University of Mainz under Josef Esser .

Scheuerle then worked as a private lecturer in Mainz for two years. In April 1960 he ended this activity as well as that as in-house counsel in Nuremberg and became a full professor at the University of Social Sciences in Wilhelmshaven . In September 1960 he switched to the chair for civil, commercial, economic and labor law at the University of Mainz, where he taught and researched until his retirement in 1979. From 1968 to 1969 he was also the dean of the law and economics faculty in Mainz.

Works and works (selection)

Scheuerle's research focus was in particular on civil procedure law and court constitution law.

• Contractual set-off . Bruck, Erlangen 1934 (dissertation).
• Application of law . Stoytscheff, Nuremberg / Düsseldorf 1952.
• Contributions to the problem of the separation of factual and legal questions . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1958 (habilitation thesis).
• Fourteen Virtues for Presiding Judges . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 978-3-428-05334-6 (published posthumously).

Web links

• Scheuerle in the Mainz professor catalog