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Leo Raape (14 June 1878 – 7 December 1964) was a German jurist.

Life
Raape was born in Rheydt on 14 June 1878, as the child of Bernhard Raape – a railway civil servant – and Sophie Raape née Graebke. He attended primary schools in Osterburg (Altmark), Viersen, Rheydt and Krefeld and then attended a Gymnasium in Krefeld which he finished in 1896 with the Abitur.

From 1896 to 1899 Raape studied law at the University of Bonn. He finished his studies with the first state examination in law (Erste juristische Prüfung), passed on 27 June 1899 before the Higher Reginal Court of Cologne. In 1901, Raape received a doctorate from the University of Bonn with the dissertation "Besitzerwerb ohne Besitzwillen nach den Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch", the oral examination was on 30 January 1901. His doctorate was advised by Ernst Zitelmann.

He then worked as a trainee lawyer (Rechtsreferendariat) in Königswinter, Bonn and Cologne and passed the second state law examination (Zweite Juristische Staatsprüfung) in 1903. [[File:Grab_Leo_Raape_FriedhofOhlsdorf_(2).jpg|thumb|Grabstein ''Leo Raape

Univ. Prof. Dr. Jur.'', Friedhof Ohlsdorf]] . In Bonn he also obtained the venia legendi in the fields of private law and private international law in 1906. He was initially appointed to the University of Halle and in 1912 published "Der Verfall des griechischen Pfandes, besonders des griechisch-ägyptischen".

In 1913 he went to London to prepare for a professorship at the University of Tokyo, but eventually returned to Germany at the start of World War I and joined the army, where he was wounded in the First Battle of the Masurian Lakes. In 1915 he was given a post in the War Ministry.

In 1924 he was appointed to the chair of civil law at the University of Hamburg. He turned down postings to Jena (1929) and Göttingen (1932). Raape was Rector of the University of Hamburg from October 1932 to September 1933. At the Rectors' Conference in April 1933, he proposed protesting against the dismissal of Jewish university teachers. The proposal was rejected by the majority of the rectors present as "dangerous and futile".

Raape, who did not join the NSDAP, became emeritus professor in 1948, but continued teaching until 1963. He died in 1964 at the age of 86 in the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, he was buried in the Ohlsdorfer Cemetery in Hamburg, plan square T 26 (south-east of Lippertplatz).

Raape died on 7 December 1964 in Hamburg.

Work
Raape was co-editor of the Archiv für die civilistische Praxis. He wrote the widely received work on private international law (Internationales Privatrecht (1938)). In 1958, he was awarded the Medal for Art and Science of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg by the Senate for his work.

Honours

 * Honorary doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Major published works

 * Deutsches internationales Privatrecht. Anwendung fremden Rechts. 2 Bände. Vahlen, Berlin 1938–1939.
 * Deutsches internationales Privatrecht. Anwendung fremden Rechts. 2 Bände. Vahlen, Berlin 1938–1939.
 * Deutsches internationales Privatrecht. Anwendung fremden Rechts. 2 Bände. Vahlen, Berlin 1938–1939.