Name Ernst Heymann | ||
Died March 2, 1946, Tubingen, Germany | ||
Ernst Heymann (April 6, 1870 - March 2, 1946) was a German jurist from Berlin.In 1889 he put on Breslauer Mary Magdalene School from the matriculation examination. He then studied until 1892 Law at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Breslau . Heymann 1899 professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . In 1902 he was appointed to the Chair of Law at the Albertus University of Königsberg appointed, two years later he moved to the University of Marburg . In 1914 he returned to Berlin at the Friedrich Wilhelm University.
Since 1918 Heymann was a regular member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . From 1926 to 1938 he was secretary of the Philosophical and Historical Class of the Academy, after initially until 1939. Acting Vice President and from 1939 to 1942 finally Vice President. Heymann was longtime chairman of the Academy commissions " German Law Dictionary ", "German Commission" and " Vocabularium Iurisprudentiae Romanae " and justice expert of the Academy.
Since 1926, Heymann was scientific adviser to the Institute for Comparative and International Private Law of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science, today's Max Planck Society . From 1937 to 1946 he was Director of the Institute and Scientific Member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. [1] From 1929 to 1932, again from 1943 Heymann Member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society.Heymann was - until 1938, first as acting - successor Ernst Rabel, who had been forced by the Nazi regime for his resignation. During the evacuation of Berlin, he moved in 1944 with the staff of the institute of Tübingen. From 1931 and 1933 Heymann was President of the Law Society of Berlin. He was also a member of the Central Board and Director of "Leges" the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . After the " seizure " of the Nazis, he was in May 1934 the founding members of the Committee on Legal Philosophy within the Nazi Academy of German Law . [2] In 1939 was Heymann started a Festschrift for the leader's 50th birthday. [2]
He activated at "Monumenta Germaniae Historica", etc.