English Translation

The scientific institutions in Berlin and Wrocław have hardly dealt with the south-east. The journal for East law, published in WroCław, is extremely arbitrary in its type of publication, and in particular the legal publications have a rather falsified character. A decisive role seems to be played there by the principle that only short laws should be printed as far as possible. Knowledge of the actual legal relations in the South East European countries is of great importance not only for the German economy, but also for legal policy. Since the holders of the Chairs of Legal History have the fatal tendency to complete their presentations with the 15th century, it is often overlooked that the entire southeast has taken over German law in a large-scale manner from the second half of the 19th century. The reasons for this takeover are not to be defined uniformly, it is important that, in addition to the practical moments (interconnection of transport and economy with Austria and the German Reich), political aspects play a major role. In some cases, the extent of the covert validity of German law in the south-east has not yet been investigated; it is only generally known that e.g. German civil law in practice in Hungary and South Slavia applies that the law of unfair competition in the south-east prevails in all of South-East Europe, the German GmbH law in Bulgaria and Slovakia, the patent, freight and exchange law in several south-eastern Europe b.W.