Gerhard Schricker on his 85th Birthday

Abstract

On 25 June 2020, Gerhard Schricker, the longtime co-editor of this journal, celebrated his 85th birthday. His colleagues, academic disciples and the ‘Max Planck Family’ congratulate him and send their best wishes. Born in Nuremberg, he studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, to which he was to return years later as a professor of private law and intellectual property law. A scholar of the prestigious Maximilianeum Foundation, his horizon soon transcended the Bavarian mountains. Study visits led him to Pavia and Salamanca. After his brilliant law exam, Eugen Ulmer, the father of German postwar copyright law, became the supervisor of his doctoral thesis on misleading advertising in Italian law. It was published as volume 11 of the Max Planck monograph series on industrial property, which presently approaches its 200th volume. His habilitation thesis on the relationship between breaches of statutory duties and the concept of unfair competition contributed significantly to the doctrinal basis of German unfair competition law. The present § 3a of the German Act against Unfair Competition, which deals with this interface, is based on these foundations.