Wolfgang Fikentscher

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Wolfgang Fikentscher

Wolfgang Fikentscher (born May 17, 1928 in Nuremberg ; † March 12, 2015 in Riederau am Ammersee ) was a German lawyer and legal anthropologist .

Life

Fikentscher received his doctorate (1952) and habilitation (1957) at the University of Munich . During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich . He received a Master of Laws from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) . He began his professional career as a legal employee in the legal department of the company Wacker Chemie ( Burghausen / Munich), at that time under allied control of IG Farben , and as a teacher at DGB trade union schools ( Kochel , Niederpöcking ). In 1958 he accepted a professorship at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. In 1965 he followed a call to the University of Tübingen and in 1971 took over the chair for civil and commercial law, industrial property rights and copyright as well as comparative private law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), which he held until his retirement in 1996. From 1996 until his death he taught legal anthropology at the Munich Faculty of Law, partly (1996-2000) also at the University of California School of Law at Berkeley , CA, USA .

In addition, Fikentscher had been an external academic member of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law since 1972 . In 1977 he was elected as a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1994 he and Robert D. Cooter from the University of California, Berkeley , received the Max Planck Research Award . Fikentscher was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and the Bavarian Order of Merit . In 1995 he received his doctorate juris honoris causa from the University of Zurich .

Memberships, fellowships: Human Sciences Center of the LMU (Munich); Parmenides Foundation for the Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Munich); Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (NIAS), Wassenaar (Netherlands) 1971/72; Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1992/3, 1995/6, 2002); Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research (since 1992). Visiting professorships: Georgetown University Law Center (1962, 1966); University of Michigan School of Law, Ann Arbor (1966, 1987); Yale University Law School and Department of Anthropology (1986); Nanjing University (1993); University of California School of Law at Berkeley (1980/1, 1988, 1992, 1996-2000).

Fikentscher was married and had four children.

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His academic work focused on intellectual property law , competition law , comparative law and legal anthropology . His publications on antitrust law and international business law were influential on German, Greek and Taiwanese (RoC) legislation and legal theory (PR China). Fikentscher was the author of a law of obligations textbook. Later, Fikentscher primarily researched the area of ​​legal anthropology, which is relatively unknown in Germany. With reference to field research, for example with Indians (esp. Pueblo inhabitants in New Mexico and Arizona, USA) and Taiwanese natives, Fikentscher tried to determine basic axioms of human legal and economic thought. In one of his last works, Fikentscher used the term “new axial age” to describe the conditions in the world. Part of his extremely extensive library was made available by the family to the University of Augsburg .

Fonts

  • Fair Economy: Crises, Culture, Competition and the Role of Law (with Philipp Hacker and Rupprecht Podszun). Heidelberg / New York 2013: Springer
  • Law and Anthropology . Munich 2009: CH Beck & Bavarian Academy of Science
  • Modes of Thought . 2nd edition Tübingen 2004: Mohr Siebeck
  • Culture, Law and Economics: Three Berkeley Lectures (Munich Writings on European and International Cartel Law, Vol. 6) Bern and Durham 2004: Stämpfli & Carolina Academic Press
  • Freedom and its paradox , Graefelfing 1997: Resch
  • Democracy, an introduction , Munich 1993: Piper
  • Business Law, Volume I: World Business Law, European Business Law ; Volume II: German Business Law . Munich 1983: CH Beck (translation into Chinese, Beijing 2010 by Zhang Shiming)
  • Methods of law in a comparative presentation. Volume 1-5, Tübingen 1975-1977: Mohr Siebeck
  • On the political criticism of Marxism and neo-Marxism as the ideological basis of the student unrest in 1965/69. (= Law and State in Past and Present. Issue 392/393) JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1971.
  • Competition and commercial legal protection , Munich 1958: CH Beck
  • A Theory of Legal Monopolies , LL.M. Paper, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan / USA 1953
  • Compensation from illegal strikes, with special consideration of the political strike , undr. Diss. Munich 1952

literature

  • Thomas MJ Möllers : Wolfgang Fikentscher †. In: JuristenZeitung 11/2015, pp. 569-570.
  • Thomas MJ Möllers: Wolfgang Fikentscher on his 70th birthday . In: New legal weekly . tape 51 , no. 21 , 1998, pp. 1542 .

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Fikentscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 41.
  2. ↑ cf. the obituary of Prof. Drexel in: GRUR Int. 2015, 517.
personal data
SURNAME Fikentscher, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and legal anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2015
Place of death Riederau am Ammersee