Carl Bilfinger
Carl Bilfinger (* 21st July 1879 in Ulm , † 2. December 1958 in Heidelberg ) was a German national and international law.
Live and act
Carl Bilfinger studied law in Tübingen , Strasbourg and Berlin . Since 1897 he was a member of the student union Akademische Gesellschaft Stuttgardia Tübingen . After his legal clerkship and a brief position as a court assistant, he was appointed district judge in 1911. As early as 1915 he was promoted to district judge and in 1918 to legation councilor.
In 1922, Bilfinger completed his habilitation at the University of Tübingen. This was followed by a substitute chair in Bonn and then an appointment to a chair for public law and international law at the University of Halle (1924).
Even before the " seizure of power ", Bilfinger was an enemy of the Weimar Republic ; alongside Erwin Jacobi and Carl Schmitt , he was a representative of the Reich in the Prussian versus Reich process for the Prussian strike .
In March 1933, Bilfinger became a member of the NSDAP (“ March Fallen ”; member no. 2.260.247). In September 1933, with the number 43 he was one of the first hundred members of the National Socialist Academy for German Law by Hans Frank . In 1935 he became full professor and prorector in Heidelberg . In 1937 he became a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 1943 he went to the important University of Berlin as the successor to Viktor Bruns , whose cousin he was, where he also headed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law .
In his writings during this time, Bilfinger showed a basic National Socialist attitude and also expressed himself anti-Semitic.
Dismissed in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945, Bilfinger received another call in 1949, namely back to the University of Heidelberg, despite its Nazi past. From 1949 to 1954 he was also director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and from 1950 Senator of the Max Planck Society (MPG) and from 1951 to 1954 chairman of the humanities section of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck -Society.
Honors
Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1953)
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Rudolf Smend : Carl Bilfinger †, in: Journal for Foreign Public Law and Völkerrecht , 1959, p. 1 (Obituary for Bilfinger) online, PDF download .
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Bilfinger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Carl Bilfinger in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
- Carl Bilfinger in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Information on the holdings of Bilfinger's estate in the archive of the Max Planck Society in Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Felix Lange: Carl Bilfinger's denazification and the decision in favor of Heidelberg: The founding history of the Max Planck Institute under international law after the Second World War. In: ZaöRV 2014, pp. 697–733.
- ↑ Preußische Justiz magazine , No. 41 of September 28, 1933, p. 479.
- ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Carl Bilfinger. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Carl Schmitt: Obituary for Carl Bilfinger , in: Journal for foreign public law and international law 20 (1959/60), pp. 1–4, here p. 4.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bilfinger, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German constitutional lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulm |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd December 1958 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |