Albert Hensel (legal scholar)

Albert Hensel (born February 9, 1895 in Berlin , † October 18, 1933 in Pavia , Italy ) was a German tax lawyer who also wrote important works in constitutional law .

Life

The only son of mathematics professor Kurt Hensel completed his habilitation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and became a professor there in 1923. In 1929 he followed the call of the Albertus University in Königsberg to its chair for public law . After his compulsory leave of absence as a result of the Aryan paragraph in April 1933 - his mother Gertrud b. Hahn (1866–1954) was Jewish and his paternal great-grandmother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's sister Fanny Hensel  - he traveled to Pavia to study, where he succumbed to a heart condition.

As a soldier in World War I , Albert Hensel had published his first book in 1917, at the age of 22, a study of Ludwig van Beethoven . He married Marieluise geb. Flothmann (1894–1942) from Marburg. The two had two sons, Kurt and Martin.

He came into contact with tax law during a brief period at the Marburg tax office. Since 1923, ao professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , he published his main work at the age of 29, a comprehensive scientific and systematic treatment of German tax law. The book was reprinted in 1927 and 1933 and also translated into Italian and Japanese .

Hensel was a member of the German People's Party from 1924 to 1932 and ran for it in the Bonn city council election in 1924. He was elected and worked on several committees, but only stayed in the group until early October 1925.

Albert Hensel grave, Marburg main cemetery

Hensel was Harry Siegmund's mentor .

Honor

The German Tax Law Society has awarded the Albert Hensel Prize annually since 1981 to a young scientist who has made a significant contribution to the research or further development of tax law.

Fonts (selection)

• Beethoven: The attempt at a music-philosophical representation. 1917.
• The financial equalization in the state in its constitutional significance. 1922.
• Tax law. 3 editions, 1924–33.
• Fundamental rights and political worldview. 1931.
• Local law and local politics in Germany. 1928.
• Basic right and political worldview. 1931.
• German imperial and state law. 1931.
• Family tax law system and other scriptures. 2000.

literature

• Christian Tilitzki : The leave of absence of the constitutional law teacher Albert Hensel in 1933. A contribution to the history of the Königsberg University. In: Mendelssohn Studies (2001) 12, pp. 243-261, ISSN  0340-8140 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert Hensel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mendelssohn (family)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ekkehart Reimer and Christian Waldhoff : On the life and work of Albert Hensels . Cologne 2000, p. 3, books.google .
2. ↑ Also written: Marie Luise. She was a student at the Elisabeth School in Marburg and is mentioned in the memories of her future sister-in-law Charlotte Bergengruen née Hensel: www.elisabethschule.de . In August 1942 she tried to bring Jewish friends across the border to Switzerland. She is betrayed, arrested and ends her life in the remand prison in Konstanz, see: www.elisabethschule.de . See also Reimer / Waldhoff op.cit. P. 43 f., Books.google .
3. ↑ Lothar Schenkelberg: "To serve Bonn is both an honor and a joy". The Bonn city council in the Weimar Republic. A biographical lexicon . Ed .: Bonner Geschichtswerkstatt eV Messner Medien GmbH, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-9806609-7-6 , p. 116 f .