Hermann Weinkauff (1894-1981). Der erste Präsident des Bundesgerichtshofs

In contemporary legal history, Hermann Weinkauff is associated primarily with his term as President of the German Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe (1950-1960) and his participation in the so-called post-war renaissance of natural law in theory and in practice. However, most people are unaware of his many other occupations, for example in Bavaria as a public prosecutor in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice or later as president of the district court and as a member of the Bavarian constitutional court. Daniel Herbe looks into these and his various other activities. For the first time, he evaluates new sources which were made accessible to him from Weinkauff's estate, which is privately owned, and numerous archives. The result is an entirely new and more complete and differentiated image of Hermann Weinkauff as a person and of his works.