Wolfgang von Tabouillot

Wolfgang von Tabouillot (born 1909, died 21 May 2002 in Madrid) was a French-origined German-Spanish international legal scholar, navy judge advocate, and businessman.

He belonged to the French noble Tabouillot family, originally from Regret near Verdun, and was a descendant of Louis de Tabouillot, an officer of the Garde du Corps and of the Armée des Princes who fled France during the Reign of Terror and who was later appointed by Napoleon as Mayor of Essen during the Napoleonic Wars.[1]

He earned a doctorate in law at the University of Heidelberg in 1932 and worked for several years at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Foreign and International Public Law, one of the world's preeminent research institutions in the field of public international law.[2] He published prolifically on international law in the 1930s, particularly in the Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, i.a. on the League of Nations, minority rights, the status of Manchukuo, the status of the Communist International, the status of the Free City of Danzig, and the law of armed conflict. He was a contributor to the Annual Digest of Public International Law Cases, edited by Sir Hersch Lauterpacht.

From 1937 he served as a Navy Judge Advocate and later as a Navy Senior Judge Advocate with the rank of Commander. He moved to Spain in the 1940s and lived in Madrid until his death in 2002. In 1950 he founded the Tradux translation agency in Madrid, which specialized in legal, commercial and technical translation on behalf of the Spanish government, law firms, and multinational companies; after some years the company had over 40 employees and grew to become the largest in its field in Spain. The Madrid law firm Tabouillot & Asociados, which specializes in corporate and European law, was co-founded by his son, the lawyer Werner von Tabouillot.[1]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels: Adelslexikon. Vol. XIV. Vol. 131 of the entire series. C. A. Starke Verlag. Limburg (Lahn) 2003. ISSN 0435-2408
  2. "Zeitschriftenschau". Zeitschrift für Völkerrecht. Duncker & Humblot. 22: 382. 1938.
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