You are bidding on one typewritten, signed certificate of the eminent legal scholar Wilhelm Wengler (1907-1995).

Issued Berlin-Hermsdorf, 12. Aug 1949, for Miss. dr Inge Zillgen for her work (since October 1946) as a member of the board of directors "in the legal department of the central transport administration", which Wengler headed until the end of March 1948 (bAt the end of August 1945, Wengler became lecturer at the central administration for traffic in the Soviet-occupied sector of Berlin; Source: dr Herfrid Kier, Zülpich: The "Affair Wengler". A contribution to the history of the International Law Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society at the time of National Socialism, p. 3).

Wengler is just before than full professor for international and foreign law, comparative law and general legal theory from the Humboldt University to the Free University of Berlin.

Inge / Ingeborg Zillgen was a daughter of Berliner Senior Government Councilor Dr. eng. Joseph Zillgen. She received her doctorate in 1940 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin with the thesis "History and meaning of serious theft." Later she was a judge.

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About Wengler (source: wikipedia):

Wilhelm Wengler (* 12. June 1907 in Wiesbaden; † 31 July 1995 in Berlin) was a German legal scholar and professor at the Free University of Berlin.

Life: Wengler studied law at the University of Frankfurt am Main and received his doctorate there as a student of Hans Lewald in 1931. iur. as well as to Dr. re. pole. In the years 1933-34 he was an assistant, from 1935 speaker at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Foreign and International Private Law (under Ernst Rabel) and its sister institute for foreign public law and international law (Bruns). After his arrest by the Gestapo, he was released without notice by the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in February 1944.

After the war, Wengler habilitated in 1948 at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1949 he was full professor for international and foreign law, comparative law and general legal theory at the Freie Universität Berlin and from 1950 until his retirement in 1975 director of the Institute for International and Foreign Law and Comparative Law there. The institute's excellent library, which he built up, was considered the best legal library of its kind in Europe.

Work: Wengler researched and published in a number of sub-areas, namely international law, German and foreign public law as well as international private law.

He was one of the last German law professors who were authorized to teach both international law and private international law. With "Völkerrecht" (two volumes, published in 1964) and "Internationales Privatrecht" (also in two volumes, published in 1981), Wengler penned fundamental works on both areas of law.

Wengler was a member of the Institut de Droit international and its president from 1973 to 1975.

The universities of Thessaloniki (1972), Louvain (1978) and Coimbra (1981) awarded him honorary doctorates for his scientific achievements.

For the 65th A two-volume commemorative publication was published on the occasion of Wengler's birthday.

After his death, Wengler's private library was transferred to the Käthe and Wilhelm Wengler Foundation. The library comprises around 9000 volumes (this corresponds to approx. 243 meters of shelf space) with a focus on international private law, public international law and comparative jurisprudence. Today it is on permanent loan to the law faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin.

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Establishment and management of a foreign law library as an academic task. In: Communications / Working Group for Legal Library and Documentation (AjBD) 9 (1979) pp. 109-118