“Stein without Jonas”: the renaming of the Kommentar zur Zivilprozessordnung and the critical reflection on the influence of National Socialism on German legal doctrine

Abstract

The Stein-Jonas Commentary on the German Code of Civil Procedure, named after the proceduralists Friedrich Stein and Martin Jonas, was first published in 1879 by Ludwig Gaupp under the title ‚Civilprozeßordnung für das Deutsche Reich nebst den auf den Civilprozeß bezüglichen Bestimmungen des Gerichtsverfassungsgesetzes und den Einführungsgesetzen‘.

This Commentary played a key role in the training of generations of young German and and foreign academics.