Eberhard Schmidt-Assmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eberhard Schmidt-Aßmann (born February 13, 1938 in Celle ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

Schmidt-Aßmann graduated from high school in 1958 at the Ernestinum humanistic grammar school in Celle. He then studied law and classical philology at the Universities of Göttingen and Geneva . He passed his state exams in 1963 and 1968. In 1966 he was in Göttingen with the work The Constitutional Concept in the German State Doctrine of the Enlightenment and Historicism. Investigations on the preliminary stages of a hermeneutic constitutional thinking have been awarded a doctorate . In 1971 there followed his habilitation there with the text Basic Issues of Urban Planning Law with the Venia legendi for public law. After working as a professor at the University of Bochum from 1972 , Schmidt-Aßmann had been at the University of Heidelberg since 1979 , where he taught until his retirement in 2006. His research focuses on German and European administrative law as well as comparative law.

Schmidt-Aßmann was a member of the Science Council (1993–1999) and has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences since 1995 . For a while he was also a part-time judge at the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and at the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg .

The University of Athens awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1999.

From December 1, 2006 to 2011, he was head of the research facility of the Evangelical Study Group eV - FEST - in Heidelberg.

Schmidt-Aßmann is married to Ulrike Schmidt-Aßmann geb. Knoke. He is a member of the Corps Bremensia Göttingen student association .

In September 2019 he was one of about 100 constitutional law teachers who, with the open appeal for the right to vote, Downsized the Bundestag! turned to the German Bundestag .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .