Dietmar Willoweit

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Dietmar Willoweit (born July 17, 1936 in Memel , Lithuania ) is a German legal scholar and legal historian .

Life

Willoweit studied after high school in Aschaffenburg at the Universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg , where, after the two legal state in 1967 with a thesis on the origin exemter dioceses in the German Reich Association doctorate was. In 1971 he completed his habilitation there with an investigation into the legal basis of territorial power .

1974 Willoweit took a call to a professorship at the Free University of Berlin in 1979 he moved to the University of Tübingen , and from 1984 until his retirement in 2004 he was finally Professor of German legal history, civil law and canon law at the University of Würzburg .

Act

The scientific focus of Willoweit's work is on studies of the influence of legal thought on the processes of state formation since the high Middle Ages and related problem areas, such as the development of public criminal law in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period or the legal status of Jews in the Middle Ages. His research areas also include all epochs of German constitutional history and the history of jurisprudence. A number of his works also address Germany's relationship to its eastern neighbors in the past and in recent times. A characteristic of his work is not least his endeavor to preserve the historical subjects as part of legal training and to create conditions that enable a lively exchange of ideas between scientists from different disciplines.

Willoweit's sixth edition of “German Constitutional History” was translated into Japanese , among other things . He has made important contributions to the handbooks of German administrative history and the Germania Judaica as well as the concise dictionary on German legal history .

In 1996/1997 Willoweit was a research fellow at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. From 1996 to 2002 he was President of the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council . From January 2006 to the end of 2010 he was President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , of which he had been a full member of the Philosophical-Historical Class since 1988. From 2002 to 2006 he was also secretary of the historical commission . He resigned this office when he took office as President, but remained associated with this institution as Deputy Chairman. As the 33rd President since the Munich Academy was founded in 1759, he succeeded chemist Heinrich Nöth .

Willoweit is u. a. Member of the Prussian Historical Commission and was chairman of the Association for Constitutional History from 1981 to 1985 .

Honors (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • State formation and jurisprudence. Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. Collected articles 2003–2016 (= Würzburger jurisprudential writings. 105) Ergon, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-95650-551-5 .
  • as editor with Volker Friedrich Drecktrah: Jurisprudence and Justice. Festschrift for Götz Landwehr on his 80th birthday. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50319-2 .
  • Empire and State. A short German constitutional history (= Beck'sche series. 2776). Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64615-7 .
  • as editor with Lothar Gall : Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Course of History: Exchange and Conflicts (= Writings of the Historisches Kolleg. Colloquia. 82). Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-59707-3 ( digitized version ).
  • State formation and jurisprudence. Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. Collected essays 1974–2002 (= Bibliotheca Eruditorum. 32). 2 volumes. Keip, Stockstadt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-8357-0999-7 .
  • as editor with Janine Fehn: Johann Gottfried Herder: State, Nation, Humanity. Selected texts. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3439-8 .
  • as editor with Hans Lemberg : Empires and Territories in East Central Europe. Historical relationships and political authority legitimation (= peoples, states and cultures in East Central Europe. 2). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57839-1 .
  • Jews in the machinery of the law. Methodological problems and content-related issues. In: Law - Violence - Memory. Lectures on the history of the Jews (= small writings of the Ayre Maimon Institute. 6). Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-082-7 , pp. 45-61.
  • Unequal marriages of the ruling high nobility in modern German legal history. Legal facts and their legal assessment with special consideration of the houses of Bavaria and Palatinate (= Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Meeting reports. Year 2004, no. 5). Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7696-1629-4 .
  • as editor with Ulrike Seif : European constitutional history (= legal historical texts. ). Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-49825-6 .
  • with Heinz Teufel : Land on the Curonian Lagoon. Ellert and Richter, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-89234-929-0 .
  • as editor: The foundation of law as a historical problem (= writings of the historical college. Colloquia. 45). Oldenbourg, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-56482-X ( digitized version ).
  • as editor: The emergence of public criminal law. Inventory of a European research problem. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1999, ISBN 3-412-15496-2 .
  • Memel - Klaipėda in the historical consciousness of the Germans and Lithuanians. Lecture at an event organized by the "Ostdeutscher Kulturrat Foundation" in Vilnius on September 18, 1998. In: Annaberger Annalen. 6, 1998, pp. 187-196.
  • The public law municipal rights of use in Bavaria. Historical genesis and dogmatic consequences of a legal interpretation model (= Würzburg juristic writings. 1). Ergon, Würzburg 1994, ISBN 3-928034-51-0 .
  • German constitutional history. From the Franconian Empire to the division of Germany. A study book. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-30948-8 (8th, revised and again expanded edition. Ibid 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-72635-4 ).
  • Legal studies - education with practical relevance? - Against the provincialism of German legal training. In: Winfried Böhm , Martin Lindauer (ed.): “Not much knowledge saturates the soul”. Knowledge, recognition, education, training today. Third symposium of the University of Würzburg. Ernst Klett, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-12-984580-1 , pp. 229-243.
  • Legal bases of territorial power. National authority, rule of law and territory in the jurisprudence of modern times (= research on German legal history. 11). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1975, ISBN 3-412-20975-9 (At the same time: Heidelberg, University, habilitation paper, 1975).

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predecessor Office successor
Heinrich Nöth President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences from
2006 to 2010
Karl-Heinz Hoffmann