Otto Eger

| birth_place = Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany | death_date = | death_place = Gießen, Hesse, American occupation zone | occupation = Jurist
University professor of jurisprudence and legal history
Nationalist activist | education = | alma_mater = Gießen
Göttingen
Berlin | employer = University of Gießen | party = NSDAP | notable works = | spouse = Margarete Zöppritz (1880-1971) | parents = | children = 1909: Sophie
''– who married Rudolf Stadelmann''
24 July 1911: Heinz
25 October 1912: Helmut | website = }}

Otto Eger (19 October 1877 – 11 April 1949) was a German jurist and legal historian. As a professor at the University of Giessen (and undertaking, more briefly, an eight-year professorship at Basel), during the first half of the twentieth century, he was an influential teacher of several generations of legal scholars. He served terms as University Rector at both institutions. A committed nationalist, he backed national socialism which, in his judgement, opened up opportunities for revanchists who still hoped to find ways to undo the destruction of the Bismarckian German state in 1918/1919. More than six decades after his death, Otto Eger remained a controversial figure due to his engagement with the Nazi régime. Provided by Wikipedia