Albert Janssen

Albert Janssen (* 1939 in Piliava ) is a German lawyer .

Life

After graduating from the Ulrichsgymnasium Norden in February 1960 , he first studied Protestant theology at the University of Marburg for three semesters and then completed a semester (six months as an unskilled worker in a Gutehoffnungshütte plant ). He then studied law for four semesters at the University of Heidelberg and from the summer semester of 1965 at the University of Göttingen up to the first state examination in law . After this exam in the 1967 summer semester, he wrote his dissertation , supported by a grant from the Volkswagenwerk Foundation .

The clerkship he graduated at the Higher Regional Court of Oldenburg (summer term 1971 visit to the University of Administrative Sciences ). After the second state examination in law, he became an administrative clerk in Lower Saxony for the then regional president in Aurich . This was followed by a secondment to the Wittmund district and then the transfer to the administrative school of the general administration of Lower Saxony in Hildesheim .

In March 1977 he was seconded to the legislative and advisory service at the Lower Saxony State Parliament in Hanover as an auxiliary officer and transferred to the Lower Saxony State Parliament a year later. On leave for a good two years and with the help of a grant from the German Research Foundation , he wrote his habilitation thesis under Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde . In June 1987 he qualified as a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Freiburg in the subjects of constitutional and administrative law, canon law and legal methodology. In 1990 he was entrusted with the management of the state parliament administration and appointed director of the Lower Saxony state parliament. He held this position until his retirement in 2004.

He taught as an adjunct professor at the law faculty of the University of Hanover .

Fonts (selection)

• Thoughtful on the development of state parliamentarism in Lower Saxony. Lecture on October 24, 2006 as part of the overall topic “Legal Aspects of State Politics” . Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 3-8329-2829-4 .
• The endangered statehood of the Federal Republic of Germany. Contributions to the preservation of their constitutional organizational structure . Göttingen 2014, ISBN 3-8471-0280-X .
• The art of differentiating between law and justice. Studies on a Basic Condition of Finding Law . Göttingen 2016, ISBN 3-8471-0542-6 .
• The state as a guarantor of human dignity. On the constitutional significance of Article 79 (3) of the Basic Law for the identity of the Basic Law . Göttingen 2019, ISBN 3-8471-0961-8 .

literature

• Bernd H. Oppermann , Udo Winkelmann (Hrsg.): The historicity of law and its consequences for German constitutional and administrative law. Symposium on the occasion of Albert Janssen's 80th birthday. , Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, Halle an der Saale 2020, ISBN 978-3-86977-217-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert Janssen in the catalog of the German National Library
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