Otto von Gierke
- Jurist
- Otto von Gierke
- School
- Historical
- Theory
- **Realist Theory of Corporate Personality** (Group Personality Theory): Legal persons or corporations are real, living organisms possessing collective wills of their own, rather than artificial constructs or legal fictions created by the state.
- Quote
The association is a real person, a living organism with a corporate will of its own, and not a mere legal fiction.
- Books
Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht (German Law of Associations), Political Theories of the Middle Ages
- Propounded
Realist Theory of Corporate Personality (Group Personality Theory)
- Born
- 1841
- Died
- 1921
- Portrait
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