Legal System

German Legal System

Also Known As Law of Germany
Civil Law Family

German law is a system of civil law founded on the principles of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, though many of its most important rules, including much of the civil code known as the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch or BGB, were developed before the 1949 constitution. It is made up of public law, which governs relations between a person and the state, including criminal law, or between two bodies of the state, and private law, which governs relations between individuals or companies. The system has drawn on a wide range of influences from Roman law, including the Justinian Code and the Corpus Juris Civilis, and to a lesser extent the Napoleonic Code.

The modern German legal system is a civil-law system founded on the principles of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, though its component codes substantially predate the postwar constitution. Its centerpiece private-law code, the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, was the product of over twenty years of drafting following German unification in 1871, drawing on the Pandectist revival of Roman law as well as medieval Germanic custom. The Federal Constitutional Court functions as the highest authority in constitutional law and, to some extent, German law as a whole. Its codification model proved internationally influential, shaping the legal systems of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Facts
Origin Year
1900 2
1900 is the year the BGB entered into force following German unification in 1871; the broader Germanic legal tradition it draws on is medieval in origin.
Example Jurisdictions
Germany 3
Example Jurisdictions
Germany, with influence extending to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and, to some extent, the United States 2
Primary Source of Law
Comprehensive enacted codes under the supreme authority of the Basic Law, interpreted by the Federal Constitutional Court 2
Classification
Legal Family
Civil Law 1
Connections

Associated With

Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB), Codes

The Burgerliches Gesetzbuch is the centerpiece code of the modern German legal system.

Source German Law (Wikipedia)

In Legal Family

Civil Law, Legal Systems

In Legal System

Civil Law, Legal Systems

Legal-system family: Civil Law Family, following the CIA World Factbook and JuriGlobe comparative-law family classification.

Includes

Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Friedrich Carl von Savigny
Gabriel Riesser, Jurists
Source Wikipedia: Gabriel Riesser
Gebhard Müller, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Gebhard Müller
Additional Source Gebhard Müller (Wikipedia)Wikipedia lead sentence
Georg Friedrich Puchta, Jurists
Source Wikipedia: Georg Friedrich Puchta
Georg Friedrich von Martens, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Georg Friedrich von Martens
Georg Jellinek, Jurists
Source Georg Jellinek (Wikipedia)
Georg Nolte, Jurists
Source Georg Nolte (Wikipedia)
Gustav Hugo, Jurists
Source Gustav Hugo (Wikipedia)
Gustav Radbruch, Jurists
Source Gustav Radbruch (Wikipedia)
Handelsgesetzbuch, Codes
Hans Lammers, Jurists
Source Hans Lammers (Wikipedia)
Hans-Jürgen Papier, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Hans-Jürgen Papier
Hans-Peter Kaul, Jurists
Source Hans-Peter Kaul (Wikipedia)
Hein Kotz, Jurists
Source Hein K?tz (Wikipedia)
Heinrich Dernburg, Jurists
Source Heinrich Dernburg (Wikipedia)
Heinrich Triepel, Jurists
Source Heinrich Triepel (Wikipedia)
Heinrich von Cocceji, Jurists
Source Heinrich von Cocceji (Wikipedia)
Henning Voscherau, Jurists
Source Henning Voscherau (Wikipedia)
Hermann Heller, Jurists
Source Hermann Heller (legal scholar) (Wikipedia)
Hermann Höpker-Aschoff, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Hermann Höpker-Aschoff
Additional Source Hermann Höpker-Aschoff (Wikipedia)Wikipedia lead sentence
Hermann Mosler, Jurists
Source Hermann Mosler (Wikipedia)
Hermann Roesler, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Hermann Roesler
Hugo Preuß, Jurists
Source Hugo Preuß (Wikipedia)
Hugo Skopnik, Jurists
Source Hugo Skopnik - Wikipedia
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, Jurists
Source Johann Gottlieb Heineccius (Wikipedia)
Johann Jakob Moser, Jurists
Source Johann Jakob Moser (Wikipedia)
Johannes Althusius, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Johannes Althusius
Additional Source Johannes Althusius (Wikipedia)Wikipedia category: 17th-century German jurists
Josef Kohler, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Josef Kohler
Josef Wintrich, Jurists
Source Josef Wintrich (Wikipedia)
Jutta Limbach, Jurists
Source Jutta Limbach (Wikipedia)
Karl Binding, Jurists
Source Karl Binding (Wikipedia)
Karl Carstens, Jurists
Source Karl Carstens (Wikipedia)
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, Jurists
Source Karl Friedrich Eichhorn (Wikipedia)
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Jurists
Source Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (Wikipedia)
Karl Larenz, Jurists
Source Karl Larenz (Wikipedia)
Konrad Hesse, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Konrad Hesse
Lassa Oppenheim, Jurists
Source L. F. L. Oppenheim (Wikipedia)
Legal transaction, Doctrines
Source Legal transaction (Wikipedia)
Levin Goldschmidt, Jurists
Source Levin Goldschmidt (Wikipedia)
Ludwig Arndts von Arnesberg, Jurists
Source Ludwig Arndts von Arnesberg (Wikipedia)
Luth Case, Landmark Cases

A ruling under German constitutional law.

Marie Munk, Jurists
Source Marie Munk (Wikipedia)
Max Kaser, Jurists
Source Max Kaser (Wikipedia)
Max Weber, Jurists
Source Max Weber (Wikipedia)
Otto Bahr, Jurists
Source Otto Bähr (Wikipedia)
Otto Georg Thierack, Jurists
Source Otto Georg Thierack (Wikipedia)
Otto von Gierke, Jurists
Source Wikipedia: Otto von Gierke
Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach, Jurists
Source Wikidata: Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach
Paul Laband, Jurists
Source Paul Laband (Wikipedia)
People's Court (Germany), Courts
Source People's Court (Germany) (source article)

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1. Wikipedia: Law of Germany
a system of civil law which is founded on the principles laid out by the Basic LawView the Source
2. German Law (Wikipedia)
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    a system of civil law which is founded on the principles laid out by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.
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  • Associated With: Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB)
3. Law of Germany (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction
    The law of Germany (German: Deutsches Recht), that being the modern German legal system (German: deutsches Rechtssystem), is a system of civil law which is founded on the principles laid out by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, though many of the most important laws, for example most regulations of the civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, or BGB) were developed prior to the 1949 constitution.
  • Duplicate-merge alias: Law of Germany (w-law-legalsysdedupe-0928)
    Law of Germany
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Wikidata: Friedrich Carl von Savigny
Includes: Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Friedrich Carl von Savigny was a German jurist and legal historian who served as professor of jurisprudence and was rector of the University of Berlin in 1812 to 1813. He was also a member oView the Source
Wikidata: Rudolf von Jhering
Includes: Rudolf von Jhering, Caspar Rudolph von Jhering was a German jurist best known for his 1872 book Der Kampf ums Recht (The Struggle for Law), as a legal scholar, and as the founder of a modern sociological and hiView the Source
Wikidata: Bernhard Windscheid
Includes: Bernhard Windscheid, Bernhard Joseph Hubert Windscheid lived from 1817 to 1892 and was a German jurist and a member of the pandectist school of legal thought. He became known for his essay on the concept of a leView the Source
Wikidata: Samuel von Pufendorf
Includes: Samuel von Pufendorf, Samuel von Pufendorf lived from 1632 to 1694 and was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist and historian. Born Samuel Pufendorf, he was ennobled in 1694 and made a baron by CharlView the Source
Wikidata: Georg Friedrich von Martens
Includes: Georg Friedrich von Martens, Georg Friedrich von Martens lived from 22 February 1756 to 21 February 1821 and was a German jurist and diplomat, educated at the universities of Gottingen, Regensburg and Vienna. He becameView the Source
Wikidata: Birke Häcker
Includes: Birke Häcker, Birke Hacker was born in 1977 and is a German legal scholar. Since January 2023 she has been Professor for Civil Law, Common Law and Comparative Law at the University of Bonn and Director ofView the Source
Wikidata: Konrad Hesse
Includes: Konrad Hesse, Konrad Hesse lived from January 29, 1919 to March 15, 2005 and was a German jurist who served from 1975 to 1987 as a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court. Born in Konigsberg, East PruView the Source
Wikidata: Theresia Degener
Includes: Theresia Degener, Theresia Degener was born on April 10, 1961 in Altenberge, West Germany and is a jurist and professor of law at the Protestant University for Applied Sciences of the Rheinland-Westfalen-LippView the Source
Wikidata: Wilhelm Schaffrath
Includes: Wilhelm Schaffrath, Wilhelm Schaffrath lived from May 1, 1814 to May 7, 1893 and was a German jurist and politician. He was a member of the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848 and, after 1871, a member of the nationalView the Source
Wikidata: Christian Wolff
Includes: Christian Wolff, Christian Wolff, ennobled as Christian von Wolff in 1745, lived from January 24, 1679 to April 9, 1754 and was a German philosopher characterized as one of the most eminent German philosopheView the Source
Wikidata: Walther Neye
Includes: Walther Neye, Walther Neye, who lived from July 24, 1901 to August 12, 1989, was a German lawyer. Between 1952 and 1957 he was the rector of Berlin's Humboldt University.View the Source
Andreas Vo?kuhle (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Andreas Vosskuhle, Andreas Vosskuhle, born in 1963, is a German legal scholar who led Germany Federal Constitutional Court as its President from 16 March 2010 to 22 June 2020, becoming the youngest person to hView the Source
Wikidata: Carl Ludwig von Bar
Includes: Carl Ludwig von Bar, Carl Ludwig von Bar, born in 1836 in Hanover and who died on 21 August 1913, was a German jurist trained at the Universities of Gottingen and Berlin who became a worldwide authority on interView the Source
Wikidata: Josef Kohler
Includes: Josef Kohler, Josef Kohler, born 9 March 1849 in Offenburg, Germany, and who died 3 August 1919 in Charlottenburg, was a German jurist, author and poet who studied at the Universities of Freiburg and HeidView the Source
Wikidata: Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach
Includes: Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, born 14 November 1775 in Hainichen, Saxe-Weimar, and who died 29 May 1833 in Frankfurt, was a German legal scholar who studied at the University of JView the Source
Wikidata: Hermann Roesler
Includes: Hermann Roesler, Carl Friedrich Hermann Roesler, born 18 December 1834 in Lauf an der Pegnitz in the German Confederation and who died 2 December 1894 in Bolzano, Austria-Hungary, was a German legal scholarView the Source
Reichsgericht (source article)
Includes: Reichsgericht, Case law, Empire
Quote, Includes: Reichsgericht, Case law, Empire
Its task was to ensure uniformity of jurisprudence throughout the territory of the German Empire.
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Federal Fiscal Court (source article)
Includes: Federal Fiscal Court, Lead paragraph [jurisdiction-scope-category]
Quote, Includes: Federal Fiscal Court, Lead paragraph [jurisdiction-scope-category]
is one of five federal supreme courts of Germany
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People's Court (Germany) (source article)
Includes: People's Court (Germany), Article lead
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established in Nazi Germany in 1934
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Federal Social Court (Wikipedia)
Includes: Federal Social Court, Lead
Quote, Includes: Federal Social Court, Lead
is the highest federal court in Germany for social security cases
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Karl Carstens (Wikipedia)
Includes: Karl Carstens, Post-war years, lawyer
Quote, Includes: Karl Carstens, Post-war years, lawyer
After the war, he became a lawyer in his hometown Bremen
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Max Weber (Wikipedia)
Includes: Max Weber, Lead, legal studies
Quote, Includes: Max Weber, Lead, legal studies
Weber studied law and history in Berlin, Göttingen, and Heidelberg.
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Walter Simons (Wikipedia)
Includes: Walter Simons, President of the Reichsgericht
Quote, Includes: Walter Simons, President of the Reichsgericht
appointed president of the Reichsgericht at Leipzig
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Otto Georg Thierack (Wikipedia)
Includes: Otto Georg Thierack, Justice Minister of Saxony
Quote, Includes: Otto Georg Thierack, Justice Minister of Saxony
Having been appointed Saxony's justice minister on 12 May 1933
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Hans Lammers (Wikipedia)
Includes: Hans Lammers, Nazi career, legal adviser
Quote, Includes: Hans Lammers, Nazi career, legal adviser
chief legal adviser for all government departments
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Theodor Mommsen (Wikipedia)
Includes: Theodor Mommsen, Lead, civil code
Quote, Includes: Theodor Mommsen, Lead, civil code
the law of obligations had a significant impact on the German civil code
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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (Wikipedia)
Includes: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Early life, civil service
Quote, Includes: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Early life, civil service
Ulrichs worked as a lawyer for the civil service in the Kingdom of Hanover
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Roland Freisler (Wikipedia)
Includes: Roland Freisler, Career in Nazi Germany, ministry
Quote, Includes: Roland Freisler, Career in Nazi Germany, ministry
Freisler became the State Secretary in the unified Ministry
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Felix Dahn (Wikipedia)
Includes: Felix Dahn, Biography, lecturer
Quote, Includes: Felix Dahn, Biography, lecturer
became a lecturer of German Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1857
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Franz Gürtner (Wikipedia)
Includes: Franz Gürtner, Lead
Quote, Includes: Franz Gürtner, Lead
responsible for coordinating jurisprudence in Nazi Germany
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Hugo Preuß (Wikipedia)
Includes: Hugo Preuß, Lead
Quote, Includes: Hugo Preuß, Lead
author of the draft version of the constitution that was passed by the Weimar National Assembly
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Wolfgang Schäuble (Wikipedia)
Includes: Wolfgang Schäuble, Lead
Quote, Includes: Wolfgang Schäuble, Lead
began a career in law at the district court of Offenburg in 1978
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Dieter Graumann (Wikipedia)
Includes: Dieter Graumann, Lead, German jurist
Quote, Includes: Dieter Graumann, Lead, German jurist
Israeli/German jurist and economist
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Heinrich von Cocceji (Wikipedia)
Includes: Heinrich von Cocceji, Lead
Quote, Includes: Heinrich von Cocceji, Lead
the main compendium for German state law
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Civil procedure code of Germany (Wikipedia)
Includes: Civil procedure code of Germany, Lead section
Quote, Includes: Civil procedure code of Germany, Lead section
Zivilprozessordnung (ZPO) is the German code of civil procedure.
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Allgemeines Deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch (Wikipedia)
Includes: Allgemeines Deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch, Lead section
Quote, Includes: Allgemeines Deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch, Lead section
The Allgemeines Deutsches Handelsgesetzbuch (ADHGB; English: General German Commercial Code (GGCC)) was the first comprehensive commercial code in Germany.
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Vehmic court (Wikipedia)
Includes: Vehmic court, Lead section
Quote, Includes: Vehmic court, Lead section
The Vehmic courts, Vehmgericht, holy vehme, or simply Vehm, also spelled Feme, Vehmegericht, Fehmgericht, are names given to a tribunal system of Westphalia in Germany active during the Late Middle Ages, based on a fraternal organisation of lay judges called "free judges" (German: Freischöffen or French: francs-juges).
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Georg Nolte (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Georg Nolte, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Georg Nolte, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a German jurist and Judge of the International C
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L. F. L. Oppenheim (Wikipedia)
Includes: Lassa Oppenheim, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Lassa Oppenheim, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist
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Stephan Harbarth (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Stephan Harbarth, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Stephan Harbarth, Wikipedia lead sentence
is the president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
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Ann-Katrin Kaufhold (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Ann-Katrin Kaufhold, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Ann-Katrin Kaufhold, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a German jurist who has been serving as vice pre
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Christine Langenfeld (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Christine Langenfeld, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Christine Langenfeld, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a German jurist who is currently serving as a ju
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Carl Schmitt (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Carl Schmitt, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Carl Schmitt, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist and political philosopher
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Gustav Radbruch (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Gustav Radbruch, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Gustav Radbruch, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German legal scholar and politician
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Wikipedia: Georg Friedrich Puchta
WikipediaIncludes: Georg Friedrich Puchta, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Georg Friedrich Puchta, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German Legal scholar
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Christian Thomasius (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Christian Thomasius, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Christian Thomasius, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist and philosopher
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Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist and musician
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Wikipedia: Gabriel Riesser
Includes: Gabriel Riesser, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Gabriel Riesser, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German politician and lawyer
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Hugo Skopnik - Wikipedia
Includes: Hugo Skopnik, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Hugo Skopnik, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German notary and colonial official
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Siegfried Guggenheim, Wikipedia
Includes: Siegfried Guggenheim, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Siegfried Guggenheim, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German lawyer
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Wikipedia: Otto von Gierke
Includes: Otto von Gierke, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Otto von Gierke, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German legal scholar and historian
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Wikipedia: Bruno Simma
Includes: Bruno Simma, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Bruno Simma, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a German jurist who served as a judge on the Int
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Heinrich Dernburg (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Heinrich Dernburg, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Heinrich Dernburg, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist
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Alois von Brinz (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Alois von Brinz, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Alois von Brinz, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist and politician
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Ludwig Arndts von Arnesberg (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Ludwig Arndts von Arnesberg, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Ludwig Arndts von Arnesberg, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist
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Anja Seibert-Fohr (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Anja Seibert-Fohr, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Anja Seibert-Fohr, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a German jurist
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Heinrich Triepel (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Heinrich Triepel, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Heinrich Triepel, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist and legal philosopher
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Wilhelm Grewe (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Wilhelm Grewe, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Wilhelm Grewe, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German diplomat and professor of international
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Christian Tomuschat (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Christian Tomuschat, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Christian Tomuschat, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a German jurist
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Hans-Peter Kaul (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Hans-Peter Kaul, Wikipedia lead sentence
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was a German international law scholar and former di
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Franz von Liszt (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Franz von Liszt, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Franz von Liszt, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist
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Karl Larenz (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Karl Larenz, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Karl Larenz, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist and philosopher of law
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Rudolph Sohm (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Rudolph Sohm, Wikipedia lead sentence
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was a German jurist and Church historian as well as
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Philipp Heck (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Philipp Heck, Wikipedia lead sentence
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was a German jurist and a leading proponent of the d
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Levin Goldschmidt (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Levin Goldschmidt, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Levin Goldschmidt, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist
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Anita Augspurg (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Anita Augspurg, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Anita Augspurg, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist
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Hermann Mosler (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Hermann Mosler, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Hermann Mosler, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German legal academic and judge
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Walter Hallstein (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Walter Hallstein, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Walter Hallstein, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German academic
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Robin Geiss (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Robin Geiss, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Robin Geiss, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a German United Nations diplomat and internation
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Armin von Bogdandy (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Armin von Bogdandy, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Armin von Bogdandy, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a German legal scholar
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Ernst Zitelmann (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Ernst Zitelmann, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Ernst Zitelmann, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist who specialized in the dogmatics
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Georg Jellinek (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Georg Jellinek, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Georg Jellinek, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German public lawyer and was considered to be
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Karl Binding (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Karl Binding, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Karl Binding, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist known as a promoter of the theor
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Emil Seckel (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Emil Seckel, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Emil Seckel, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist and law historian
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Rudolf Stammler (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Rudolf Stammler, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Rudolf Stammler, Wikipedia lead sentence
was an influential German philosopher of law
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Wilhelm Eduard Wilda (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Wilhelm Eduard Wilda, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Wilhelm Eduard Wilda, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist of Jewish descent
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Johann Jakob Moser (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Johann Jakob Moser, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Johann Jakob Moser, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist
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Robert Alexy (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Robert Alexy, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Robert Alexy, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist and a legal philosopher
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Rudolf Bernhardt (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Rudolf Bernhardt, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Rudolf Bernhardt, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German judge
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Ernst Benda (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Ernst Benda, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Ernst Benda, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German legal scholar
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Winfried Hassemer (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Winfried Hassemer, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Winfried Hassemer, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German criminal law scholar
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Josef Wintrich (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Josef Wintrich, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Josef Wintrich, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German legal scholar and judge
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Wolfgang Zeidler (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Wolfgang Zeidler, Wikipedia lead sentence
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was a German legal scholar and judge
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Roman Herzog (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Roman Herzog, Wikipedia lead sentence
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was a German politician
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Jutta Limbach (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Jutta Limbach, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Jutta Limbach, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist and politician
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Eike of Repgow (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Eike of Repgow, Wikipedia lead sentence
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was a medieval German administrator who compiled the Sachsens
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Johann Gottlieb Heineccius (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, Wikipedia lead sentence
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was a German jurist from Eisenberg
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Reinhard Zimmermann (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Reinhard Zimmermann, Wikipedia lead sentence
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is a German law professor and retired Director at t
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Susanne Baer (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Susanne Baer, Wikipedia lead sentence
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is a German legal scholar and was one of the
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Paul Laband (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Paul Laband, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Paul Laband, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist widely regarded as the leading a
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Gustav Hugo (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Gustav Hugo, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Gustav Hugo, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist
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Udo Di Fabio (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Udo Di Fabio, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Udo Di Fabio, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a German jurist
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Karl Friedrich Eichhorn (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, Wikipedia lead sentence
Quote, Includes: Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a German jurist
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Max Kaser (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Max Kaser, Wikipedia lead sentence
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was a German professor of Jurisprudence who taught s
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Renate Jaeger (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Renate Jaeger, Wikipedia lead sentence
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is a German lawyer and a former judge of the Europe
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Ernst Forsthoff (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Ernst Forsthoff, Wikipedia lead sentence
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was a German scholar of constitutional law and a lea
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shortened to Carolina) is recognised as the first body of German criminal law (Strafgesetzbuch). It was also known
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and replaced the Constitution of 1848/50. During Nazi Germany, it was eroded to the point of irrelevance and fo
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is a German scholar of constitutional law who serve
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Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (German: [ɛʁnst ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈbœkŋ̍ˌføːɐ̯də]; 19 September 1930 - 24 February 2019) was a German legal scholar and a justice on Germany's Federal Constitutional Court.
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Marie Munk (Wikipedia)
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Marie Munk (July 4, 1885, in Berlin, January 17, 1978, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) was a German-American lawyer.
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was a German lawyer and politician
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was a German politician
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is a German jurist and the current professor of int
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Ernst Rabel (Wikipedia)
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Franz von Benda-Beckmann (Wikipedia)
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