Conrad Bornhak

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Conrad Bornhak (born March 21, 1861 in Nordhausen ; † February 9, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German legal and constitutional historian .

Live and act

After receiving a doctorate in law in Göttingen in 1885 , Bornhak completed his habilitation in 1887 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . From 1893 to 1900 he held the office of judge, first in Prenzlau . From 1897 , he was a professor at Berlin University as an associate professor in the subject of constitutional and international law at the Prussian War Academy in Berlin. Despite his retirement in 1924, he was only suspended because of anti-republican statements in 1926. Bornhak then continued it from 1928 to 1931 at the University of Cairo . After his return to Germany, he taught again until the winter semester of 1939/40, when the dean ordered the end of his teaching activities on ministerial instructions.

Bornhak did research and teaching on constitutional, administrative law and constitutional history.

Conrad Bornhak died a few weeks before his 83rd birthday on February 9, 1944 in Berlin. His grave, which has not been preserved, was in one of the cemeteries in front of Hallesches Tor . It is not known exactly which one.

Works (selection)

  • History of Prussian Administrative Law. 3 vols., Springer, Berlin 1884–1886.
  • General political theory , Carl Heymann, Berlin 1896.
  • Prussian state and legal history. Carl Heymann, Berlin 1903, unchanged. Reprinted with a foreword by Detlef Merten , Heymann, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-452-18510-9 .
  • Prussia under foreign rule 1807–1813 . Frankenstein & Wagner, Leipzig 1925.
  • The war guilt. Germany's world politics 1890–1914. Tradition Wilhelm Koele, Berlin 1929.
  • German constitutional history from the Peace of Westphalia. Enke, Stuttgart 1934, reprint Scientia, Aalen 1968.
  • The Italian constitutional law of fascism. Deichert, Leipzig 1934.
  • Genealogy of the Constitutions , Breslau 1935 (= treatises from constitutional and administrative law including international law , 50).

literature

  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4 .
  • Ewald Grothe : Between History and Law. German constitutional historiography 1900–1970 , Oldenbourg, Munich 2005 (=  Ordnungssysteme , 16), ISBN 3-486-57784-0 , p. 230 f.
  • Anna-Maria Countess von Lösch: The naked ghost. The Law Faculty of the Berlin University in Change in 1933 , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999 (= Contributions to the Legal History of the 20th Century , 26), ISBN 3-16147245-4 .

Web links

Wikisource: Conrad Bornhak  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 218.
personal data
SURNAME Bornhak, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bornhak, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1944
Place of death Berlin