Alfred Voigt

Alfred Voigt (born November 11, 1913 in Königsberg , † 1998 ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Voigt was in 1913 as the son of a local court council in the East Prussian born Konigsberg. His great-grandfather was the historian and archivist Johannes Voigt .

After graduating from high school in 1931 at the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg, he studied law at the University of Königsberg . After the state examination (1936) he was a research assistant at Ernst von Hippel and Ernst Forsthoff at the Law and Political Science Faculty and in 1937 with von Hippel with the thesis outlines of a political theory with Johann Gottfried Herder to Dr. jur. PhD. In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , where he served as a soldier until 1945. In 1943 he was appointed assessor.

After the war, he worked at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and was appointed to the commission for the preparation of an administrative court law. This was followed in 1948 by the public law habilitation with Walter Jellinek with the thesis On the Politica generalis by Johann Angelis von Werdenhagen, Amsterdam 1632 and the award of the Venia legendi . Subsequently, he was a lecturer at the Universities of Mannheim and Frankfurt am Main as well as the University of Labor, Politics and Economics in Wilhelmshaven. From 1951 to 1979 he was full professor for constitutional, administrative and international law (from 1964: public law and canon law ) at the University of Erlangen . His academic students included a. Peter Badura , Hasso Hofmann and Gerhard Hoffmann .

From 1953 to 1972 he was also a part-time judge at the Bavarian Administrative Court in Ansbach .

Voigt was married to a doctor from 1965.

Fonts (selection)

Outlines of a state doctrine by Johann Gottfried Herder (= Königsberger jurisprudential research, volume 3). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1939,
History of Fundamental Rights . Spemann, Stuttgart 1948.
Canon Law . Luchterhand, Neuwied u. a. 1961.
Writings on legal and constitutional history (= Erlanger research, series A, humanities , volume 65). Edited by Peter Badura , Erlangen University Library, Erlangen 1993, ISBN 3-922135-90-0

literature

Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . 22nd edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1983, ISBN 3-7950-2003-4 , p. 1262.
Eva Wedel-Schaper, Christoph Hafner, Astrid Ley (arr.): The professors and lecturers at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1743–1960 . Part 1: Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Law (= Erlangen Research: Special Series . Vol. 5). On behalf of the rector, ed. by Renate Wittern , University Library, Erlangen 1993, ISBN 3-922135-92-7 , pp. 177-178.

Web links

Literature by and about Alfred Voigt in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Alfred Voigt in the German Digital Library
Search for "Alfred Voigt" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Alfred Voigt: writings on legal and constitutional history (= Erlanger research, series A, humanities , volume 65). Edited by Peter Badura , Erlangen University Library, Erlangen 1993, ISBN 3-922135-90-0 , p. 7.
^ Michael Stolleis: History of Public Law in Germany . Volume 4: Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies in West and East. 1945–1990 . CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63203-7 , p. 47 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Voigt, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	November 11, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH	1998

[Badura-1] Alfred Voigt: writings on legal and constitutional history (= Erlanger research, series A, humanities , volume 65). Edited by Peter Badura , Erlangen University Library, Erlangen 1993, ISBN 3-922135-90-0 , p. 7.

[2] Michael Stolleis: History of Public Law in Germany . Volume 4: Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies in West and East. 1945–1990 . CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63203-7 , p. 47 f.