Wilhelm Wegener (legal historian)
Wilhelm Wegener (born November 2, 1911 in Bad Lippspringe , † April 6, 2004 in Göttingen ) was a German legal historian .
Life
In 1958, during his studies, Wegener became a member of the Germania Saarbrücken fraternity . After the academic years and the habilitation in Göttingen , Wegener accepted the call to the Saarland University on October 1, 1956 . Until his retirement in 1978, he held a chair for German and Comparative Legal History at Saarland University.
He was not only involved in various university committees, but also in particular in the commission for Saarland regional history and folk research. Legal history in research and teaching was at the center of his work. He was a valued academic genealogist . The work Genealogical Tables for Central European History (Göttingen 1962–1969) edited by him is widely cited.
A collection of documents initiated by Wegener was handed over to the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives in 1992/98 .
Fonts
- Bohemia / Moravia and the Empire in the High Middle Ages. Investigations on the constitutional position of Bohemia and Moravia in the German Empire of the Middle Ages 919–1253. Böhlau, Cologne 1959 (= East Central Europe in the past and present. Vol. 5) (also: Habil.-Schr., 1954).
literature
- Academic commemoration for Wilhelm Wegener (= University Speeches Saarland University. Volume 65). Saarbrücken 2006.
- Maximilian Hommens: Wilhelm Wegener 1911–2004. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, German Department 122 (2005), pp. 1054-1059.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Wegener in the catalog of the German National Library
- Commemoration
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burschenschafter Stammrolle 1991. P. 220.
- ^ Inventory of the Wilhelm Wegener document collection (PDF).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wegener, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Lippspringe |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 2004 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |