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Christian Helfer (born March 8, 1930 in Plauen ; † March 18, 2008 in Saarbrücken ) was a German legal sociologist.

Life

Helper's family came from Saxony. His father, the district court director Dr. Alfred Helfer, both grandfathers, an uncle and the two younger brothers Hans-Martin and Roland were members of the Corps Thuringia Leipzig (but not the older brother Klaus, father of Joachim Helfer ). Christian Helfer attended the Teutonic Knights School in Plauen and graduated from high school in Bad Harzburg in 1949 . The reason that he began to study law at the Friedrich Alexander University was due to the fact that the Corps Misnia IV, as the traditional bearer of the Senior Citizens' Convention in Leipzig , had moved from Leipzig to Erlangen in December 1946. On May 13, 1949 Helfer was admitted to Misnia as a fox . After his reception , he and other Meißners continued the Corps Lusatia Leipzig , which had resurrected from Misnia at the end of 1949 . He moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and also joined the Corps Rhenania Bonn in the winter semester 1950/51 .

After the first state examination in law, he completed his preparatory service in Wolfenbüttel, Braunschweig and Bonn. With a doctoral thesis on criminal history, he was awarded Dr. iur. PhD. He passed the assessor examination in 1958 at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court . Fascinated by Max Weber's writings, he turned to sociology . From 1960 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Labor, Politics and Economics in Rustersiel and from 1962 at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . After receiving the license to teach sociology in Göttingen at the end of 1966 , he taught as a private lecturer until the summer semester of 1968 .

On April 2, 1969, Saarland University appointed him to the chair of European comparative cultural studies . In Saarbrücken he carried out the reconstitution of his father's corps Thuringia Leipzig. It was carried out exactly 100 years after the founding of the German Empire , on January 18, 1971. Helfer actively volunteered and fought - as a professor - a measure . He used his experiences in the corps student dictionary Kösener Customs and Customs . In it, he described the independent student culture of the corps in the Kösener Seniors Convents Association . 1972–1976 he was deputy chairman of the VAC board of directors (Saarbrücken). When Philipp W. Fabry left Saarbrücken, Helfer was his successor for one year. He was Karsten Bahnson's doctoral supervisor . In 1995 he retired from Saarland University . He died of a malignant disease shortly after his 78th birthday. He was married to Leonie von Massow since 1960. The marriage has two daughters and one son.

Helfer got involved in the German reunification , not least under the impression of the political imprisonment of his older brother Klaus in the Bautzen prison from 1948 to 1956. In the 1970s he began to attend Leipzig trade fairs with his students . He established contacts with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony . After reunification he campaigned for Thuringia to return to Leipzig.

Honors

Works

Lexicon auxiliare , 3rd edition (1991)

Helfer published over 100 publications . He was co-editor of the magazine Vox Latina and wrote the German-Latin Lexicon auxiliare . The Crater dictorum is a collection of Latin proverbs and slogans, mottos and inscriptions from the last five centuries.

  • On the topography of medieval criminal sites in the Bonn area. Dissertation, Bonn 1956.
  • Lexicon auxiliare , 3rd edition. Saarbrücken 1991, ISBN 3-923587-08-2 .
  • Crater dictorum , 2nd edition. Saarbrücken 1995.
  • Kösener Customs and Customs , 2nd edition 1991. ISBN 3980147525 .

Obituaries

  • Albert / Bauer / Riemer: In memoriam Professoris doctoris Christiani Helfer. Vox latina, Commentarii periodici quater in anno editi, Tomus 44 (2008), Fasc. 172, pag. 305
  • [Raimund] Hübinger: Prof. Dr. iur. Christian Helfer Thuringiae Leipzig EM, Lusatiae, Rhenaniae Bonn . Corps Magazin (Deutsche Corpszeitung) 3/2008, pp. 45–46.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 100/83; 87/1104; 127/987; 175/223
  2. ^ Dissertation: On the topography of medieval criminal sites in the Bonn area .
  3. ↑ a b c Committed to freedom. Memorial book of the German social democracy in the 20th century. Marburg 2000.
  4. ↑ winners of Becarria Medal
  5. ^ Bibliographical reference to the Lexicon auxiliare
  6. ↑ Bibliographical evidence of the Crater dictorum
predecessor Office successor
Philipp W. Fabry VAC Chairman
1975–1976 		Friedrich Ossig
personal data
SURNAME Helper, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 2008
Place of death Saarbrücken