Wolfram Henckel

Wolfram Henckel (born April 21, 1925 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer , university professor and former rector of the University of Göttingen .

Life

After school and participation in the World War , which earned him a serious wound, he studied from 1949 at the University of Heidelberg Law . In 1952 he passed his legal traineeship . In 1956 he was there with Friedrich Weber with the thesis "process leading power estoppel" doctorate . The assessor exam passed in the same year was followed by assistant work, again in Heidelberg. In 1960 Wolfram Henckel completed his habilitation at Weber with a thesis on "Party doctrine and the subject of dispute in civil proceedings".

In 1962, Henckel accepted the chair for civil law , commercial law and procedural law at the Law Faculty of the University of Göttingen , to which he remained loyal despite numerous appointments until his retirement in 1993. In the academic year 1966/67 he served as rector of his university . In 1969 he was appointed a member of the Science Council for three years and from 1970 chaired its scientific commission. From 1973 to 1992 he was chairman of the Göttingen Legal Society. From 1976 to 1987 he was a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society . From 1977 to 1991 he was a member of the Lower Saxony State Court . In 1983 he was appointed to the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In 1985 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Wolfram Henckel published in particular in the areas of civil law , civil procedural law and insolvency law . Procedural law and substantive law , the title of his inaugural lecture in Göttingen (1962) as well as a further monograph (1970) and many other scientific contributions that are still extremely influential to this day, was his life's theme. Henckel's insolvency law work was and is also of outstanding importance, in particular through the revision of the major commentary on the bankruptcy and insolvency regulations founded by Ernst Jaeger . From 1978 to 1985 Henckel was a member of the Federal Ministry of Justice's commission to reform insolvency law and chairman of the furniture security working group ; Here Henckel successfully pleaded for greater involvement of the furniture security creditors (“Henckel model”). From 1980 to 1988 he was chairman of the Association of Civil Procedure Teachers. Wolfram Henckel was honored with a commemorative publication twice by his specialist colleagues, on the occasion of his 70th birthday (1995) and again on the occasion of his 90th birthday (2015) . The University of Athens awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1999 . His academic students Walter Gerhardt , Bruno Rimmelspacher and Jürgen Costede were also appointed to professorships in civil litigation.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfram Henckel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the whole, see Friedrich Weber, Festschrift for Wolfram Henckel on his 70th birthday, Berlin 1995 ( ISBN 978-3110137569 ), pp. XIII – XVII.