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Elke Herrmann

Dr. iur. Elke Herrmann worked at the Faculty of Economic Disciplines, Business Information Systems and Business Law in the German and European Economic Law program. Her teaching and research focused on civil law, labor law and commercial and corporate law.

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  • Execution of gifts according to § 518 II BGB, Diss. Hamburg 1978
  • So-called gifts of silent partnerships, ZHR 147 (1983), 313 ff
  • Der Störer nach § 1004 BGB, Zugleich eine Untersuchung zu den Verpflichteten der §§ 907, 908 BGB (Habilitationsschrift), Duncker und Humblot, Berlin 1987
  • Problems of so-called indirect discrimination, SAE 1993, 271 ff
  • Mankohaftung in: Lexikon des Rechts (LdR), 1994, 12/1170; Nebenbeschäftigung ibid. 12/1270; Gesellschaftsvertrag ibid. 1995, 17/670; Durchgriffshaftung ibid. 17/400
  • Compatibility of the quota regulation for the advancement of women with national and European law, SAE 1995, 229 ff (discussion essay on the decision of the BAG of June 22, 1993, 1 AZR 590/92, reprinted SAE 1995, 242 ff)
  • The freedom of contract - an endangered principle, ZfA 1996, 19 ff
  • Influences of nature and neighboring rights (§§ 1004, 906 BGB) - three decisions, NJW 1997, 153 ff
  • Property and sacrifice "for the good of the common good" - On the basis of claims under compensation law and their dogmatic simplification, in: Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtsdogmatik, ed. Rolf Knütel and Jens Peter Meincke; Hans Hermann Seiler on December 24, 1999; 2000, p. 601 ff
  • Collective autonomy versus private autonomy: employment contract, works agreement and co-determination, in: Special supplement to NZA issue 3/2000, p. 14 ff
  • Corporate and employee liability, in: Liability principles and liability limits of the security industry, ed. Schünemann, Stober, 2002, p. 15 ff
  • Operae liberales, operae illiberales - the fate of a distinction, ZfA 2002, 1 ff
  • Cautio damni infecti, concept of possession and responsibility for property risks, in: Der praktische Nutzen der Rechtsgeschichte, Hans Hattenhauer zum 8. September 2001, ed. Jörn Eckert, 2003, p. 203 ff
  • Conclusion of a fixed-term employment contract with a pregnant employee, SAE 2003, 125 ff
  • Commentary on §§ 516 ff, 688 ff, 765 ff BGB, in: Erman, Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, Handkommentar, vol. I, 11th ed. 2004; 12th ed. 2008; 13th ed. 2011; §§ 516 ff, 688 ff ibid. vol. I, 14th ed. 2014, §§ 765 ff ibid. vol. II, 14th ed. 2014
  • History and Present in Civil Law, Hans Hermann Seiler, Selected Writings; him on December 24, 2004, ed. Elke Herrmann, 2004
  • Eigentum, Besitz, Eigentümer-Besitzer-Verhältnis, in: Eckpfeiler des Zivilrechts, Bearb. 2005, p. 901 ff; Neubearb. 2008, p. 979 ff (not a commentary, but a monograph)
  • On the practical use of the legal method - an example from property law, in: Memorial for Jörn Eckert, ed. Hoyer, Hattenhauer, Meyer-Pritzl, Schubert, 2008, p. 323 ff
  • On friendship and other humanity in law - a sketch, in: Against the grain, FS for Klaus Adomeit, ed. Hanau, Thau, H. P. Westermann, 2008, p. 259 ff
  • Discussed by: Jürgen Brand, Untersuchungen zur Entstehung der Arbeitsgerichtsbarkeit in Deutschland, Vol. 3: Die Rechtsprechung der rheinischen Gewerbegerichte von 1840 bis 1891 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Gewerbegerichts in Elberfeld, 2008, in: ZNR 2009, 321 ff
  • Von einem verschwiegenen Landstrich, einem Schlüsselbegriff und Typenproblemen, in: FS für Dieter Reuter zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. Martinek, Rawert, Weitemeyer, 2010, p. 525 ff
  • Core structures of property law (ownership, possession, owner-owner relationship, individual limited property rights as "unfolding" of property), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2013
  • Herrmann/Kopp, Core Structures of Property Law, 2nd ed. 2025, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen

University Professor Dr. iur. Elke Herrmann

  • Summer semester 1967: studium generale at the University of Hamburg
  • From winter semester 1967/68: Studied law at the University of Hamburg
  • 1972: First state examination in law
  • 1973: Research assistant at the Seminar for Roman Law and Comparative Legal History at the University of Hamburg
  • 1976: Second state examination in law
  • 1976: Research assistant/university assistant at the Seminar for Civil Law and Basic Civil Law Research at the University of Hamburg and managing assistant at the above-mentioned Seminar for Roman Law
  • 1978: Doctorate at the University of Hamburg under Hans Hermann Seiler
  • 1985: Habilitation at the University of Hamburg under Hans Hermann Seiler/Götz Landwehr and award of the teaching license as a private lecturer at the same university
  • 1985: Deputy professor at the Free University of Berlin
  • 1986: Judge at the Hamburg District Court
  • 1989: Professor at the University of Siegen
  • 1990 to 1992: Professor at the University of Hamburg
  • 1992 to 2012: Professor at the University of Siegen for civil law, labor law, commercial and corporate law
  • 1995: Appointment to the University of Münster; rejection of this appointment
  • 1996: Call to the University of Greifswald; rejection of this call

Main areas of research: Fundamentals of civil law; law of obligations, property law; German civil law and European law influences; basic structures and history of labor law.