Peter Schlechtriem (March 2, 1933, in Jena – April 23, 2007, in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German jurisprudential scholar.
[1][2] Peter H. Schlechtriem was born March 2, 1933, in Jena (Germany) and studied law at the University of Hamburg and the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg.
Peter Schlechtriem subsequently returned to Freiburg where in 1970 he completed his Habilitation with a substantial book on the relationship between liability in contracts and tort, written under the supervision of Ernst von Caemmerer.
He was a member of the German delegation at the Diplomatic Conference in Vienna that adopted the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods in 1980.
During the creation of the new Civil Codes of Estonia, Lithuania, Russia and Slovakia, he acted as a consultant and advisor.