Christian Hillgruber

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Christian Hillgruber (born December 9, 1963 in Darmstadt ) is a German legal scholar and legal philosopher .

Life

Christian Hillgruber is the son of the Cologne historian Andreas Hillgruber . He studied at the University of Cologne Law and put 1988 First State Examination from. In 1991 he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . After completing his legal clerkship in North Rhine-Westphalia , he passed the second state examination in 1992. He was a research assistant at the University of Cologne and a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court . Hillgruber completed his habilitation in Cologne in 1997. In the same year he took over a C3 professorship at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1998 he was appointed to the chair at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg . In 2002 he moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , where he holds a chair for public law, succeeding Josef Isensee . He regularly publishes guest articles for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . His main fields of work are constitutional law (Germany) and international law as well as legal philosophy and the theory of the state .

Functions and offices

  • Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Bonn (2008–2011)
  • Deputy member of the Constitutional Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (since 2009)
  • Chairman of the Commission for Investigating Scientific Misconduct at the University of Bonn
  • Scientific advisory board to support the work of the Ludwigsburg branch of the Federal Archives
  • Scientific advisory board of the Institute for Contemporary History
  • Deputy Chairman of the DHV Association Group Bonn
  • Chairman of the Jurists' Association for Life Rights eV (see Life Rights Movement )

Memberships

Positions

In 2014, Hillgruber called for “protection for a new minority”, since in his view the “gay lobby” discriminates against those who “consider homosexuality to be morally questionable and homosexual practice to be offensive”.

In 2015 Hillgruber also described in the FAZ the “handling of the ' blasphemy ' paragraph 166 of the penal code by the judiciary [as] completely unsatisfactory” and the “unlimited defamation of religion in the name of freedom of opinion, the press and freedom of the arts” in Germany “Integration obstacle of the first order”.

In the same year Hillgruber argued, again in the FAZ, that assisted suicide was unconstitutional and should therefore be banned. After the Federal Constitutional Court had declared the prohibition of commercial promotion of suicide in Section 217 of the Criminal Code to be unconstitutional in 2020, Hillgruber accused the court of exceeding the “limits of its jurisdiction”. Even if the general right of personality protects the individual's free decision to commit suicide, it does not oblige the state to allow assisted suicide with the use of convenient suicide assistance offers. Instead, because of the guarantee of human dignity, the state must ensure that human life “is given a positive value by third parties in every situation”.

Fonts

  • The protection of people from themselves (= studies on public law and administrative doctrine. Vol. 48). Vahlen, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-8006-1636-X (dissertation, University of Cologne, 1991).
  • with Matthias Jestaedt : The European Convention on Human Rights and the Protection of National Minorities. Cultural Foundation of German Expellees , Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-88557-098-X .
  • The admission of new states to the community of international law. The international law institute for the recognition of new states in practice in the 19th and 20th centuries (= Cologne writings on law and the state. Vol. 6). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-631-33016-2 (habilitation thesis, University of Cologne, 1997).
  • with Christoph Goos: Constitutional procedural law (= focus. Vol. 22). Müller, Heidelberg 2004; 3rd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-8114-9747-4 .
  • with Bernhard Kempen : Völkerrecht (= series of publications of legal training. Vol. 182). Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54904-5 .
  • State and religion. Reflections on secularity, neutrality and the religious and ideological foundation of the modern state (= Schönburger Talks on Law and the State. Vol. 10). Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna / Zurich / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-76474-4 .
  • Manfred Spieker , Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz : The dignity of the embryo. Ethical and legal problems of pre-implantation diagnostics and embryonic stem cell research , Ferdinand Schöningh 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77649-5 .
  • Principle 3: Justice through a law that conforms to natural law. In: Christoph Klausing (Hrsg.): The Cologne guidelines 1945 and today. A search for the core brand of Christian Democracy. LIT Verlag, Münster 2018, pp. 63–68, ISBN 978-3-643-14103-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 20th Edition (2005). Vol. 1, p. 1370.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The protection of humans from themselves .
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: The admission of new states into the international legal community .
  4. ↑ Christian Hillgruber: Where is the freedom of others? , In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 21, 2014, No. 44, p. 7.
  5. ^ Christian Hillgruber: Permissible Criticism of Religion. An obstacle to integration of the first order. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from January 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ Protect every life . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 25, 2015, p. 6.
  7. ^ A b c Christian Hillgruber: After euthanasia verdict: No right to freedom from pain. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 12, 2020, accessed May 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hillgruber, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and legal philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt