Carl Sartorius

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Carl Friedrich Sartorius (born January 29, 1865 in Bayreuth , † October 24, 1945 in Tübingen ) was a German lawyer.

Life

After Sartorius had gone to Bayreuth to school, he enrolled at the University of Erlangen for the subject Jura . He later moved to the universities of Munich and Berlin . Back in Erlangen, he completed this course in 1887 with a doctorate . Sartorius later moved to the University of Bonn , where he qualified as a professor in 1891 for church, constitutional and administrative law . He then worked there as a private lecturer until 1895.

In that year Sartorius took a position as a. o. Prof. to the University of Marburg . From 1901 to 1908 he worked as full professor at the University of Greifswald . As such, from 1903 he also acted as editor of the collection of state and administrative content . This work is continued to this day ( Verlag CH Beck Munich) and is one of the standard collections in legal training and practice.

The University of Greifswald appointed Sartorius as its rector between 1906 and 1907. In 1908, Sartorius moved to Tübingen as professor of church, constitutional and administrative law. He held this office until his age-related retirement in 1933. From 1919 to 1921 he was the rector of the University of Tübingen . In 1922 he received an honorary doctorate (Dr. rer. Pol. Hc) from this university. Theodor Eschenburg , who studied in Tübingen from 1924 to 1926, characterized Sartorius' attitude to the Weimar Republic with the words “The only two people who, as far as I know, tried to arouse understanding for the Weimar Republic, factually and non-polemically, were the constitutional law teacher Carl Sartorius Liberal intellectual republicans, as they said at the time, in his lectures on German imperial and state law, and the economist Curt Eisfeld in his business administration colleges, as far as he had the opportunity. "

In 1911, Sartorius was appointed as a representative of the university in the first chamber of the Württemberg state estates and in 1920 he was appointed to the Württemberg state court . In 1922 he was one of the founders of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers . When after the seizure of power by the National Socialists with Hans Kelsen the union had to resign because of his Jewish ancestry of the three chairmen, the other two chairmen Sartorius and put Otto Koellreutter office as chairman. Formally, however, they only dissolved the association, which had been inactive since 1933, in 1938.

Carl Friedrich Sartorius died at the age of 80 on October 24, 1945 in Tübingen.

Works

  • Commentary on the Civil Status Act in the version applicable from January 1, 1900 (1902).
  • Collection of imperial laws constitutional and administrative sciences content, constitutional and administrative law and constitutional and administrative law (1903 ff.), Sartorius I .
  • State administrative jurisdiction in the field of canon law (1891).

literature

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Eschenburg : From university life before 1933 . In: Andreas Flitner (Ed.): German Spiritual Life and National Socialism , Wunderlich Verlag, Tübingen 1965, p. 35.
  2. ^ Outline of the history of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers at www.vdstrl, accessed on February 20, 2017.
predecessor Office successor
Franz Schuett Rector of the University of Greifswald
1905 		Robert Bonnet
personal data
SURNAME Sartorius, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sartorius Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1945
Place of death Tübingen