Death: Dr. Kübler, Law |
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November 12, 2013, Volume 60, No. 13
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Dr. Friedrich K. Kübler, emeritus professor of law at Penn Law School, died October 22 at his home in Germany after a long illness. He was 81.
Dr. Kübler was an internationally recognized expert on corporations, banking and mass media. A prolific scholar, he wrote or co-wrote more than 20 books and monographs, as well as more than 100 articles in contract and property law; corporations, banking and securities regulation; and mass media and legal theory, many of them comparing American with European legal structures.
Dr. Kübler’s textbook on German corporate law went through six editions and was translated into Spanish. He also published a textbook on German mass media law.
“Fritz was one of the kindest, most gracious and beloved colleagues and teachers I have ever known,” said Law School Dean Michael A. Fitts. “He was adored by everyone who knew him and will be greatly missed.”
Robert Mundheim, who was Law School Dean when Dr. Kübler joined the faculty in 1985, added: “Fritz possessed the open mind, the intense intellectual interest, instinctive fondness of others and sense and sensibility which won the admiration and affection of colleagues and students around the world. He was the Law School’s most effective bridge to foreign academic communities.”
Dr. Kübler was a member of the American Law Institute and served on the boards of the Deutscher Juristentag (the German equivalent of the American Law Institute) and the German Association of Comparative Law.
He was a commissioner of the German Interstate Commission for the Regulation of Media Concentration and served on the board of the Hessian Public Service Broadcasting Entity. He was also a member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and of the Frankfurt Academy of Sciences.
Born in Reutlingen, Germany in 1932, Dr. Kübler studied law at the Universities of Tübingen, Lausanne, Reading/Berkshire and Bonn. Early in his career he was a law clerk for several courts, administrative agencies and law and accounting firms in and near Stuttgart.
Dr. Kübler began his teaching career as a lecturer at the University of Tübingen, where he received his Dr. iur (doctor of law) in 1959.
In 1976, he was appointed professor of law at the University of Frankfurt/Main, where for two decades he directed the Institute for Banking Law and where he founded and co-directed the Institute for Domestic and Foreign Mass Media Law, also serving as Dean of its Law School in 1988-89.
Dr. Kübler was a member of the Penn Law faculty from 1985 to his retirement in 2011. He taught courses in international finance, European Union law, corporations, comparative corporate and capital market law and comparative mass media law.
Dr. Kübler is survived by his wife, Britta Kübler; daughters, Dorothea and Johanna Kübler; son, Florian Kübler; and grandchildren, Philippa, Bruno, Jonathan, Jasper and Moritz.
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