Reinhard Frank

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In 1920 Karl Engisch was a newly arrived student at Munich University, and a regular listener at Frank's lectures on Criminal Law, when news came through that Reinhard Frank had turned down the opportunity to move to Leipzig:

  • "Ich erinnere mich des minutenlangen Beifalls, den das Auditorium dem zwar im Vortrage trockenen, aber doch als Lehrer und Mensch hochverehrten Manne für die Ablehnung des Leipziger Rufs spendete. Empfehlungen meines Vaters führten mich auch als Gast in das Haus Franks. Als Mittagsessen bot er den Studenten regelmäßig Kartoffelpfannkuchen, weil man die in den Gasthäusern nicht zu essen bekomme. Die Atmosphäre, die einen umfing, war von gewinnender Familiarität." [16]
  • "I remember the sustained applause in the lecture theater for a man whose lecturing was indeed dry, but who was highly revered as a teacher and as a human being, when he rejected the offer from Leipzig. My father's promptings led me to become a regular guest at Frank's house. At lunch-time he regularly offered student potato pancakes, since these were not available in the pubs and cafes. The atmosphere surrounding you on these occasions was one of casual familiarity."

During the First World War the focus of Frank's written output shifted towards topics in international and maritime law. Of particular political interest was his justification, published in 1915, of the violation of Belgian neutrality by the Imperial Army in August 1914. [1] [17] After the war reached its dénouement Frank teamed up with Felix Rachfahl to deliver and publish an opinion repudiating as unconstitutional moves to extradite the exiled emperor from his sanctuary in the countryside outside Utrecht. [18] [19] [20] Many years later, in 1929, Reinhard Frank was asked about his own political perspective during the turbulent post-war period that gave birth to the German republic. He recalled that he would have considered himself as democratic, liberal, and of the "political left" until the "revolution with its anti-patriotic undertones pushed him sharply towards the right". [1]

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In 1920 Frank turned down an offer to move to Leipzig in order to take over from Adolf Wach who, having reached the age of 76, was retiring from the professorship he had held since 1875. Wach's speciality had always been Civil Process whereas Frank continued to display more interest in criminal law and international public law. At the time the offer came through from Leipzig he may already have been aware that he was in line to be offered the rectorship at Munich which, later that year, he accepted, taking office on 27 November 1920. [1] Although the administrative structures of the two venerable universities differed in many ways, one thing they had in common was that a university rector, at this point, were still appointed for a twelve-month term. Frank's successor as Munich University rector, in November 1921, was the Geographer and Geophysicist Erich von Drygalski. [21]

Reinhard Frank died at Munich on 21 March 1934.

Notes

  1. ↑ "...„mangelnde Berücksichtigung der kultur- und literarhistorischen Zusammenhänge und jeglicher ästhetischen Gesichtspunkte". [1]
  2. ↑ Other members of the government's "Criminal Justice Committee" ("Strafrechtskomitee") established in 1902 were Hermann Seuffert (1836–1902), Karl von Birkmeyer (1847–1920), Fritz van Calker (1864–1957), Wilhelm Kahl (1849–1932), Karl von Lilienthal (1853–1927), Franz von Liszt (1851–1919) and Adolf Wach. [12]

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Reinhard Frank
Born(1860-08-16)16 August 1860
Reddighausen (Hatzfeld), Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Died21 March 1934 (1934-03-22) (aged 73)
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Occupation(s)Law professor, writer
SpouseAntonie Richter (1866–1949)
Children2
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Alma mater University of Marburg
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