You are bidding on one certification the University of Berlin from 1932.

Issued and signed from the Legal historian and canon lawyer Ulrich Stutz (1868-1938) for the can. jur. Lothar Müller from Berlin, who “worked on mine together with Mr. Priv. Doz. Dr. Reicke had "participated diligently and successfully" in the seminar about the Sachsenspiegel.

Dr. Reicke = the famous legal scholar Siegfried Reicke, 1897-1972, who completed his habilitation under Stutz in 1931/32.

Dated Berlin, 27. July 1932.

Format:16.3 x 20.7 cm.

Condition: Punched on the side, slightly browned. Please notee also the pictures!

Internal note: folder 7g/7


About Ulrich Stutz (source: wikipedia):

Ulrich Stutz (* 5. May 1868 in Zurich; † 6. July 1938 in Berlin) was a German legal historian and canon lawyer.

Life: Ulrich Stutz is considered one of the most important canon law historians of the 20th century. century. In 1896 he became professor of law and canon law in Freiburg, where Nikolaus Hilling became his important successor.[1] From 1904 to 1917 he also taught at the University of Bonn, set up the Canon Law Institute at the Faculty of Law and Political Science and laid the foundations for the development of historical canonry. Since 1917 he taught German law and canon law as a full professor at the University of Berlin. He headed the Institute for Canon Law; He was responsible for characterizing the still valid state church law from the Weimar Constitution as a “limping separation”[2]. He is also the originator of the term own church; Stutz made a significant contribution to understanding the early medieval intertwining of Frankish secular and Western Roman ecclesiastical power. His students include Johannes Heckel, Adalbert Erler and Dettmar Philippi, as well as the canon law historian Franz Gescher (1884–1945), whose dissertation from 1919 Stutz ranks as the 95th. Issue of his series Treatises on Canon Law was published.[3][4]

Despite his Swiss origins, Stutz exposed himself politically as a “rabid German nationalist” (Gustav Mayer). Even after the collapse of the Empire, he remained a convinced monarchist and expressed this conviction every year on the 27th. January (the birthday of Wilhelm II) in his lecture with a homage to the exiled emperor.[5]

His grave is in the southwest cemetery of Stahnsdorf.

Publications (selection)

Report on the legal status of the Protestant university preacher at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, [Bonn] [1914] (digital copy)

Honors

1912 Honorary doctorate from the University of Freiburg i.Br.

1914 Honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich

1917 Corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

1918 member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences

1925 Foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences[6]

1927 member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome.

literature

Adalbert Erler: Stutz, Ulrich. In dsb. et al. (Ed.): Concise dictionary on German legal history, HRG, 5: Penal theory - Zycha. Register. Schmidt, Berlin 1998 ISBN 3-503-00015-1, col. 66-68.

Anna-Maria Countess von Lösch: The naked spirit. The Faculty of Law at Berlin University in the upheaval of 1933 (= contributions to the legal history of the 20th century. century, 26). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-16-147245-4 (also: Humboldt University Berlin, Diss. jur. 1998–1999).

Life: Ulrich Stutz is considered one of the most important canon law historians of the 20th century. century. In 1896 he became professor of law and canon law in Freiburg, where Nikolaus Hilling became his important successor.[1] From 1904 to 1917 he also taught at the University of Bonn, set up the Canon Law Institute at the Faculty of Law and Political Science and laid the foundations for the development of historical canonry. Since 1917 he taught German law and canon law as a full professor at the University of Berlin. He headed the Institute for Canon Law; He was responsible for characterizing the still valid state church law from the Weimar Constitution as a “limping separation”[2]. He is also the originator of the term own church; Stutz made a significant contribution to understandin