Eberhard Poppe

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Eberhard Poppe (born September 12, 1931 in Wiesenburg , Saxony ) is a German legal scholar. His research areas in the GDR were constitutional and legal theory and in the unified Germany constitutional theory, constitutional and administrative law. From 1971 to 1990 he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Legal career

Poppe grew up in a family of employees. In 1950 he passed the Abitur. In 1952 he became a member of the SED . After studying law at the University of Leipzig until 1954, he became assistant / senior assistant at the legal faculty of the Leipzig Karl Marx University from 1955 and then until 1959 at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in Halle (Saale ) . There he defended his doctoral thesis on popular sovereignty and parliamentary status. His habilitation took place in 1963. On October 1, 1960, Poppe was commissioned to hold a lectureship in constitutional law at the Faculty of Law in Halle . Since 1965 he worked as a full professor for constitutional theory and constitutional law at the MLU and also as Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Social Sciences from 1968 to 1970. At a meeting of Christian personalities at Martin Luther University in 1969, the Vice-Rector indicated that this event should be held convincing example of the practice of the constitutional principle of freedom of conscience and belief.

From 1971 to 1977 Poppe was rector of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Together with his professor colleague in the field of constitutional law, Büchner-Uhder, Poppe campaigned for the strengthening of administrative law in the legal system of the GDR. In an interview in 2007 by his academic colleague Lieberwirth , a professor emeritus for legal history and international private law at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, he was recognized as "... very popular ... among the students, also because he offered something scientifically also heard a contrary opinion. He was fair and had a good way of dealing with the students. " In political disputes with law students in the year the Wall was built in 1961, Poppe, as party secretary of the SED party organization of the law faculty, behaved fairly and moderately by the standards of the time when a third-year student said she was not ready to “spin the balls who could be shot at their relatives in West Germany, ”he left with a discussion with the still incumbent dean Leschkas , especially since the law student subsequently undertook to sign the required declaration of consent“ in defense of our socialist republic ”. At the beginning of the political turnaround in the GDR, Poppe and one of his friends from Leipzig University, Gregor Schirmer , were sent by the Kulturbund faction to the People's Chamber's temporary commission, which was formed on November 18, 1989, to amend and supplement the GDR constitution. whose work, however, remained unsuccessful because of precipitous political events and developments in view of the unification of the two German states.

Eberhard Poppe is one of the most important constitutional lawyers in the GDR. In 1990 Poppe was retired as a professor in connection with the winding up of the Political and Legal Science section at the MLU, but he remained scientifically active. As a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (SAW), he worked on the subject of "The constitutional position of the Free State of Saxony as a federal state" and presented his results at the December 1991 meeting of the philogical-historical class in the SAW.

Voluntary (social) activity

Poppe was a member of the Presidential Council of the Kulturbund der DDR (KB) since 1971. Since the founding of a GDR committee for European security on March 24, 1970 in Berlin, the constitutional lawyer Poppe was a member of this body, as was the international lawyer Reintanz, also from Martin Luther -University of Halle-Wittenberg. From 1971 he belonged as a member of the People's Chamber to the KB parliamentary group and was a member of the Constitutional and Legal Committee. During the political change, Eberhard Poppe campaigned in the People's Chamber as a member and representative of the constitutional and legal committee for the strict guarantee of freedom of opinion, information and media freedom and its detailed regulation in a media law to be passed in the future. Already in 1976 Poppe became deputy chairman of the Interparliamentary Group of the GDR (IPG) and, as a representative of the IPG of the GDR , spoke out in favor of the creation of an international space organization within the framework of the UN system at the 1989 conference of the Interparliamentary Union (IPU) in London ; In 1972 Poppe became a corresponding member and in 1975 a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW); In 1973 Poppe became a member of the Council for Political and Legal Research at the AdW. Occasionally Poppe took part in the professorships of the Berliner Rundfunk and participated in discussions as a constitutional lawyer on the show. The Halle constitutional lawyer, Poppe, gave a lecture together with his professor colleague Reintanz , an international lawyer from Halle , at a seminar of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK) in 1976 on questions of civil and human rights, in particular on the rights to freedom of assembly and expression, freedom of the press, Radio and television in the GDR, in compliance with the UN Civil Rights Convention and the UN Social Convention . He took part in the Bergedorf discussion group on the subject of "10 years Helsinki - the challenge remains" in the Bad Godesberg Redoute in 1985. MLU Rector Poppe in 1975 to the Board of the International Association of Universities ( International Association of Universities , chosen IAU) as a full member and belonged to him until 1980; From 1981 to 1983 Poppe was a full member and from 1993 to 1994 a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (SAW).

Personal

After his retirement in 1990, Poppe moved to Franconia, which he first met as a schoolchild. His son, Stefan Poppe (* 1956), was a lecturer at what was then Karl Marx University in Leipzig in the field of administrative law .

Awards and honors

Publications

  • People and Education in the GDR , Berlin 1965,
  • On the position of socialist administrative law in the legal system of the GDR , co-authors: Willi Büchner-Uhder (1928–2003) and Rudolf Hieblinger (1924–2009). In: Zeitschrift "Staat und Recht", 22nd year (1973), pp. 1346–1353
  • Administrative law . Textbook. Co-author [collective of authors, general editorial team Willi Büchner Uhder et al .; Editorial deadline December 15, 1978], Berlin 1979; DNB 800229827
  • The "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" in the present, 1979
  • Basic rights of the citizen in socialist society , 1980
  • Universality of Human Rights - Idea and Reality , 1985
  • Arthur Baumgarten on his 100th birthday , (co-author: Wolfgang Weichelt ) 1985 DNB 850632277
  • Human rights - in dispute and dialogue . (Lecture to the plenary session of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR on November 17, 1988), 1989
  • The legal system of the USA - impressions from a study trip in: Neue Justiz (NJ) 1990, pages 119 to 120,
  • The constitutional position of the Free State of Saxony as a federal state ; ISBN 3-05-002244-2

literature

  • The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 9th electoral period, Staatsverlag der DDR Berlin 1987, p. 486.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Universallexikon , 3rd edition, Vol. 3, Leipzig 1981, keyword: Poppe, Eberhard, p. 456
  2. ^ Halle, Faculty of Law. Dissertation from October 11, 1958; DNB 480767483
  3. ^ Müller-Enbergs / Wielgohs / Hoffmann: Who was who in the GDR? A biographical lexicon , keyword "Poppe, Eberhard" compiled by Jan Wielgohs, p. 686 column 1, Berlin 2006; ISBN 3-8289-0552-8
  4. ↑ Breithaupt, Dirk: Legal Biography GDR . Dissertation, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Berlin 1993, p. 133
  5. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, Berlin 1966, p. 1882 under Poppe, E.
  6. ^ Neue Zeit , February 11, 1969, pp. 1/2
  7. ↑ Prof. Dr. sc. jur. E. Poppe, as rector, signed the doctoral certificates together with the respective dean of the newly formed faculties, in which the award of an academic degree by the Scientific Council of the Martin Luther University was documented with the date and handwritten signatures - Schudi Collection 45, evidence out 1975.
  8. ^ On the position of socialist administrative law in the legal system of the GDR, authors: Poppe, Eberhard / Büchner-Uhder, Willy; in: Staat und Recht, 1967, Vol. 16, pp. 241-254
  9. ^ Albrecht Cordes : Interview with Prof. Dr. Rolf Lieberwirth on September 12, 2007 in Halle (December 21, 2007), in "forum historiae iuris"; fhi - First internet journal for European legal history ; ISSN  1860-5605
  10. ^ Report on the political-ideological situation of the law faculty to the university party leadership for the period from August 11, 1961 to October 9, 1961, printed in: Rupieper, Hermann-J. (Ed.): "There is no way for Brandt to go to war": August 1961 at the Martin Luther University; Halle (Saale), (p. 86–90) here: p. 89 i. V. m. Notes 93 (p. 83) and 98 (p. 89); ISBN 3-89812-149-6
  11. ↑ Schirmer, Gregor: Yes, I am ready for it. A flashback . Verlag am Park in Edition Ost, Verlag und Agentur GmbH, Berlin 2014, section: End of the GDR Constitution, p. 207. ISBN 978-3-89793-193-0 .
  12. ^ Stolleis, Michael : Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies in West and East 1945–1990 . (History of Public Law in Germany, Volume 4). Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63203-7 , p. 582; Snippets
  13. ↑ Heuer, U.-J .: In dispute - a lawyer in two German states, Baden-Baden, 2002; Uwe-Jens Heuer mentions on p. 103 a. a. Eberhard Poppe, ISBN 3-7890-7913-8
  14. ^ Poppe, Eberhard: The constitutional position of the Free State of Saxony , (hardback edition) 1992; ISBN 3-05-002244-2
  15. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , March 25, 1970, p. 2
  16. ^ Meyers Universallexikon, Leipzig, 1981, vol. 3, p. 456, column 2, keyword "Poppe, Eberhard".
  17. ↑ New Germany newspaper , January 30, 1990, page 1
  18. ↑ New Germany newspaper , July 8, 1972, page 2
  19. ↑ New Germany newspaper , May 14, 1974, p. 8
  20. ↑ Neue Zeit newspaper , July 24, 1976, p. 7
  21. ^ 78th Bergedorf Round Table, Bonn, in the Bad Godesberger Redoute, 1985; Participant Eberhard Poppe  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed December 6, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.koerber-stiftung.de  
  22. ↑ New Germany newspaper , August 26, 1975, page 4
  23. ↑ Köbler, Gerhard: POPPE, E. (short biography) p 282
  24. ↑ Hans M. Kloth: From the "folds of paper" to free voting. The Democratization of the GDR 1989/90 and the "Wahlfrage" , p. 548, footnote 126, hardcover edition 2000; ISBN 3-86153-212-3
  25. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1992, Berlin 1992, p. 2814, keyword "Poppe, Stefan"
  26. ↑ New Germany newspaper , June 12, 1968 page 8
  27. ↑ Eberhard Poppe, professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, in: New Germany daily newspaper , October 4, 1984, page 4
  28. ^ Editor: German Academy for Political Science and Law In Potsdam-Babelsberg; Publication period: 1.1952 to 40.1991, issue 3; so that shows are discontinued.
  29. ^ Lecture on December 13, 1991 Eberhard Poppe (Halle-Wittenberg), full member of the philological-historical class; SAW Leipzig plenary lectures 1991
personal data
SURNAME Poppe, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesenburg , Saxony