Der Nachfolger. Leben, Werk und Wirken von Ernst Heymann (1870–1946)

Reinhard Zimmermann

Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte 351
Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2026
X, 190 S.

ISBN 978-3-465-04730-8

Open Access version: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783465147305

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“A great, a very reliable German”, a “strong worker [and yet] an academic indeed” – those are words used by one of the permanent Sekretare of the Prussian Academy of Sciences to describe Ernst Heymann, who succeeded Heinrich Brunner in 1914 to the most prestigious Legal History chair in the Germanist tradition, at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Berlin. In 1937, Heymann took over as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Comparative and International Private Law when the Nazis forced founding director Ernst Rabel to resign. On occasion of the 100th anniversary of this institute, the book traces the life, work and influence of a man who held numerous influential positions in the system of science and academia during the German empire, the Weimar Republic – and also the National Socialist era.

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