Wolfgang B. Schünemann
Wolfgang Bernward Schünemann (born January 11, 1947 in Erlangen ) is a German legal scholar. From 1984 to 2012 he was Professor of Private Law at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Technical University of Dortmund .
Life
Born as the son of a district court director and a teacher, Schünemann grew up in Coburg. After primary school and graduating from high school Casimirianum studied Schünemann from 1966 to 1971 jurisprudence and additionally economics and business administration at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. After the first state examination in law, he became a research assistant at the same university in 1971 with Udo Kornblum . Supported by a doctoral scholarship, he received his doctorate from Kornblum in 1973. iur. (“Summa cum laude”). The publication of the dissertation on “basic problems of the general society” was supported in 1975 as an “unusual, indispensable achievement for the subject area” as a post- doctoral grant from the German Research Foundation.
After the second state examination in law , he followed Kornblum in 1976 as an employee at the University of Stuttgart (TH). In 1984 Schünemann completed his habilitation at the University of Tübingen with Wolfgang Münzberg and Fritz Baur with an intradisciplinary thesis on "Self-help in the legal system" and the venia legendi for civil law, commercial and company law and civil procedural law. Immediately after his habilitation, he accepted a professorship at the University (now: Technical University ) of Dortmund, where he held the chair for private law in the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences until his retirement in 2012. The first marriage resulted in two children. In his second marriage, Schünemann is married to the Chinese logistics manager Rui Chen. The couple has been living in Berlin since January 2015.
Work and action
Schünemann's main research areas are competition law, insurance contract law, and corporate security law and the security industry. So far he has presented almost 200, in some cases very extensive, publications (monographs, commentary literature, textbooks, essays, reviews ). In his publications, Schünemann significantly influenced dogmatics by including economics. The term “commercial private law” coined by him describes less a specific legal matter than a hermeneutical-dogmatic method. Schünemann's view of the legal capacity of the whole hand, advocated by Schünemann in his dissertation, is also generally recognized. On the other hand, Schünemann's agency theory of insurance contracts has remained very controversial, the practical consequences of which very weakens the legal and economic position of the insurance industry in favor of policyholders. With this point of view, he was unable to assert himself within the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority during his membership in its scientific advisory board (2005–2010).
In addition to research and teaching in his regular Dortmund professorship, Schünemann's academic work is characterized by numerous visiting professorships, lectureships and teaching assignments at home and abroad, internationally in China (universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Lanzhou), South Korea (Seoul National University ), Russia (University of St. Peterburg), Belarus (European Humanistic University Minsk) and Poland (University of Poznań), partly as part of TRANSFORM projects of the German federal government. He practiced legal policy advice e.g. B. 2006 in the context of the so-called rule of law dialogue between the German and Chinese governments. Schünemann has also been involved in university politics and academic self-administration in a variety of ways over the decades. a. Until his retirement he was dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at TU Dortmund University for 8 years. Even after his retirement, Schünemann continues to work as anti-corruption and compliance officer at TU Dortmund University.
Fonts
- Basic problems of the general partnership with special consideration of enforcement law, Bielefeld 1975
- Self-help in the legal system. A dogmatic study using the example of §§ 227, 229 ff. BGB, Tübingen 1985
- Private Economic Law, 1st edition Stuttgart 1991, 6th edition Konstanz 2011 (Russian edition of 5th edition Minsk 2007)
- Large commentary on the UWG, Einl. A - E, § 1 C, 1st edition Berlin 1994/1996; Einl. A, F and G, 2nd edition Berlin 2014
- UWG commentary, ed. von Harte-Bavendamm and Henning-Bodewig, §§ 1 and 3, 1st edition Munich 2004, 2nd edition Munich 2009
Memberships
Schünemann is a member of the Humboldt Society , the Association of Civil Law Teachers , the Dortmund Legal Society and is on the board of the Society for Westphalian Economic History. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Institute for Compliance, Security Management and Corporate Security (FORSI) at the German University for Continuing Education, Berlin.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schünemann, Wolfgang B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schünemann, Wolfgang Bernward (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German business law scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | gain |