Dietrich Schindler senior

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Dietrich Schindler senior (born December 3, 1890 in Zurich ; † January 10, 1948 there ) was a Swiss legal scholar .

Dietrich Schindler was the son of Dietrich Schindler-Huber , the general director of the Oerlikon machine factory . He completed his studies in Leipzig, Zurich and Berlin in 1916 with a doctorate in law . In 1921 he completed his habilitation with his publication On the Formation of the State Will in Democracy . From 1921 to 1922 he was studying at Harvard Law School .

In 1927 Schindler sen. at the University of Zurich appointed and took over in 1936 the Chair of State and Administrative Law , and later international law and legal philosophy . In addition, he held various public offices, including Colonel of Military Justice, President of the Board of Directors of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . He was also a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross .

His most important work is constitutional law and social structure (Zurich 1931, various reprints). Collected articles were published posthumously in Recht, Staat, Völkergemeinschaft (Zurich 1948).

literature

  • Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Ed.): In memory of Professor Dr. Dietrich Schindler (1890–1948) , Zurich 1948
  • Peter Schneider: On the legal and political theory of Dietrich Schindler (senior) . in: JÖR 40 (1991), pp. 179-188
  • A lawyer with an eye for the tasks of the time, On the 50th anniversary of the death of Dietrich Schindler senior , Neue Zürcher Zeitung of January 10, 1998, p. 16
  • Daniel-Erasmus Khan :  Schindler, Dietrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 789 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Dietrich Schindler (jun.) : A Swiss constitutional and international lawyer during the crisis and war: Dietrich Schindler (senior), 1890–1948. Schulthess-Verlag, Zurich 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Dietrich senior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1948
Place of death Zurich