Christian-Friedrich Menger

Christian-Friedrich Menger (born November 1, 1915 in Opole ; † January 7, 2007 in Münster ) was a German legal scholar . From 1968 until his retirement he was professor for public law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . His publications on administrative procedural law, general administrative law and constitutional history became particularly important.

Life

Menger studied law in Heidelberg and Göttingen . He received his doctorate in 1940 with a legal history work on the question of the participation of the state in the establishment of associations with legal capacity. He passed his assessor examination in Berlin . After serving in the war and as a prisoner of war , he became a research assistant to Hans Julius Wolff at the Municipal Science Institute of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. There he completed his habilitation in 1954.

After a first job at what was then the University of Labor, Politics and Economics in Wilhelmshaven , Menger moved to the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer in 1955 and to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel in 1961 . After the retirement of his teacher Hans-Julius Wolff, he accepted a call to Münster in 1968, where he became the managing director of the Institute for Local Research. Menger was also a part-time judge at various higher administrative courts.

Menger had been a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg since 1961 .

Fonts

• System of administrative judicial protection. An administrative and comparative study , 1954.
• Constitution and administration, past and present. (= Münster contributions to public law. Volume 4). CF Müller, Heidelberg 1982, ISBN 3-8114-2582-X .
• German constitutional history of modern times , CF Müller, Heidelberg, 8th edition 1993.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian-Friedrich Menger in the catalog of the German National Library

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1. ^ Habilitation thesis: System of administrative legal protection
2. ^ Michael Stolleis: History of Public Law in Germany. Fourth volume 1914-1945. Munich 2012, p. 68 with note 310 and p. 445 f.
3. ↑ Press release of the University of Münster on Menger's death  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1971, 66 , 1600.