Hermann Mosler

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Hermann Mosler (1964)

Hermann Mosler (born December 26, 1912 in Hennef ; † December 4, 2001 in Heidelberg ) was one of the most famous German international lawyers of the post-war period. From 1954 to 1980 he was director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He also worked at the European Court of Human Rights from 1959 and from 1976 to 1985 as the first German to work as a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague .

Life

Hermann Mosler came from a family of lawyers. His father, Karl Mosler, was President of the Bonn Regional Court from 1921 to 1933 and 1945 to 1946 ; In 1933 he was deposed by the National Socialists for political reasons . His sister, the economist Hedwig Daniels, was married to Wilhelm Daniels , Lord Mayor of Bonn, and their son Hans Daniels was also Lord Mayor here.

Hermann Mosler received his doctorate in 1937 at the University of Bonn with the then courageous work “The Intervention in International Law” and took over a position as an assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Berlin . After the end of the war he was an expert on international law at the Nuremberg Trials. His habilitation under Richard Thoma , which also took place in Bonn in 1946, was entitled "Economic concessions in the event of a change in sovereignty".

From 1949 to 1954 Mosler held a professorship and a chair for public law at the University of Frankfurt and from 1951 to 1953 he headed the legal department of the Foreign Office in Bonn during its development phase. He was also involved in the negotiations on the Schuman Plan .

In October 1954, Mosler succeeded Carl Bilfinger as director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg . Together with Rudolf Bernhardt he designed the Encyclopedia of Public International Law and contributed to the work with several articles.

In January 1959 Mosler was elected as the first German judge to the European Court of Human Rights and was confirmed twice in this office. From 1976 to 1985 he was also the first German to act as a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague , where he had previously worked as an ad hoc judge in one case.

In 1957 Mosler was elected to the Institut de Droit International . Since 1975 he was a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , from 1982 to 1986 its president .

Hermann Mosler had been with Anne Mosler , b. Pipberger married. The couple had five children, including the mathematician and statistician Karl Mosler .

Publications (selection)

  • Intervention in international law . Triltsch & Huther, Berlin 1937.
  • Economic concessions in the event of changes in sovereignty . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1948.
  • The international society as a legal community . Sijthoff & Noordhoff, Alphen aan den Rijn 1980, ISBN 90-286-0080-9 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chapter "Dr. Karl Mosler" in: Heiko Maas (Hrsg.): Feartlose Juristen - Judges and prosecutors against the Nazi injustice. Verlag CHBeck, Munich 2017, as well as http://www.lg-bonn.nrw.de/behoerde/gerichtsvorstellung/zt_Grusswort/historie/index.php
  2. ↑ See http://www.zeno.org/Geschichte/M/Der+N%C3%BCrnberger+Proze%C3%9F/Indizes/Personen-Index/M
personal data
SURNAME Mosler, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German international lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Hennef
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2001
Place of death Heidelberg