Erhard Blankenburg

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Erhard Blankenburg (2018)

Erhard Blankenburg (born October 20, 1938 in Duisburg ; † March 28, 2018 in Amsterdam ) was a German legal sociologist and professor at the Free University of Amsterdam .

Career

Blankenburg studied philosophy, sociology and German at the University of Freiburg and FU Berlin. This was followed by graduate studies and a position as a research assistant at the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon. He completed his studies in sociology and economics at the University of Basel with a Master of Arts degree in 1965.

His doctorate as Dr. phil. took place at the University of Basel in 1966. He worked as an assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Freiburg from 1966 to 1968. From 1969 to 1971 he was an organizational consultant with the Quickborn team in Hamburg. Blankenburg then worked in Basel as a senior project manager at Prognos in Basel. 1973/1974 he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg. He obtained his habilitation in sociology in 1974 at the University of Freiburg. From 1975 to 1980 Blankenburg was a member of the Berlin Science Center , International Institute for Management and Administration.

In 1980 he was offered the chair of legal sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam . Together with Wolfgang Kaupen , he played an important role in the re-establishment of German legal sociology in the 1970s (Raiser 1998), as well as, with Volkmar Gessner , in founding the International Institute for the Sociology of Law . He was also one of the initiators and founding editors of the Zeitschrift für Rechtsssoziologie . Together with Bill Felstiner , he organized the first joint meeting of the two important sociology associations (LSA and RCSL) in Amsterdam in 1991. His occupation with legal sociological topics was unusually broad, ranging from the sociology of crime to that of the state apparatus and that of civil law. Blankenburg was primarily an empiricist and methodologist (see his empirical legal sociology). His most important contributions to legal sociological theory concern the terms "mobilization of law" and " legal culture (s)". Above all, however, he worked as a coordinator, organizer and mediator between science and practice: "He did not try to found a 'school', it was easy for him to work in constantly changing teams with changing scientists. He was able to do better than any other legal sociologist to organize successful conferences, to win competent speakers and to lead the events with authority and at the same time loosely "( Theo Rasehorn 1998, 23).

In 2005 he received the Adam Podgórecki Prize from the Research Committee on Sociology of Law . In an obituary by the Bochum legal sociologist Klaus F. Röhl, Blankenburg's importance is assessed as follows: "Nobody shaped the empirically-critically oriented legal sociology in Germany and beyond like him in the last third of the 20th century".

Book publications (selection)

  • Church ties and voting behavior - The social factors in voting - North Rhine-Westphalia 1961–1966. Olten: Walter Verlag 1967 (originally dissertation).
  • (with Johannes Feest ): The power of definition of the police. Law enforcement strategies and social selection. Düsseldorf: Bertelsmann Universitätsverlag 1972.
  • (with Hellmut Morasch and others) Facts on the reform of civil justice. JCBMohr: Tübingen 1974.
  • (Ed.) Empirical legal sociology. Pieper: Munich 1975
  • (with Klaus Sessar , Wiebke Steffen ): The public prosecutor's office in the process of criminal social control. Duncker & Humblot: Berlin 1978.
  • (Ed. With Wolfgang Kaupen ): Legal need and legal assistance. Empirical approaches in international comparison. Westdeutscher Verlag: Opladen 1978 (= yearbook for legal sociology and legal theory, vol. 5).
  • (Ed. With Ekkehard Klausa, Hubert Rottleuthner ): Alternative legal forms and alternatives to law. West German publishing house: Opladen 1979 (= yearbook for legal sociology and legal theory, vol. 6).
  • (Ed.) Policy of internal security. Suhrkamp Published by Frankfurt 1980.
  • (with Jann Fiedler) Legal protection insurance and the increasing number of business cases in the courts. JCB Mohr: Tübingen 1981.
  • (Ed. With Kurt Lenk): Organization and law. Organizational conditions of law enforcement. Westdeutscher Verlag: Opladen 1981. (= year book for legal sociology and legal theory, vol. 7).
  • (Ed. With Udo Reifner): Legal advice - social definition of legal problems through legal advice offers. Luchterhand: Neuwied 1982.
  • Het idee van een maatschappij zonder right. Vrije Universiteit: Amsterdam 2002.
  • (Ed. With Rüdiger Voigt : Implementation of judicial decisions. West German publishing house: Opladen 1987 (= year book for legal sociology and legal theory, vol. 8).
  • (Ed.) Prozessflut - Indicator comparison of legal cultures on the European continent. Federal Gazette: Cologne 1988.
  • (Ed. With Dieter Leipold, Christian Wollschläger): New ways in civil proceedings. Federal Gazette: Cologne 1991.
  • (with Freek Bruinsma): Dutch Legal Culture. Kluwer: Deventer 1991.
  • Mobilizing Law - An Introduction to the Sociology of Law. Springer: Heidelberg 1995.
  • (Ed. With Johannes Feest): Changing Legal Cultures. IISL: Onati 1997.
  • Legal Culture in Five Central European Countries. The Hague: WRR 2000.

Newer essays

  • The troublemaker as a social construction. In: Dieter Strempel / Theo Rasehorn (eds.) Empirical legal sociology. Commemorative letter for Wolfgang Kaupen. Nomos: Baden-Baden 2002, 203-212.
  • (with Bert Niemeijer) "Why do we need a constitutional court?". The Dutch discussion in the light of the German experience. In: Migratierecht en rechtsociologie. Liber Amicorum Prof. CA Gronendijk. Wolf Legal Publ .: Nijmegen 2008, 303-310.
  • Opportunistic law, the coffee shops. About the tolerance of soft drugs in the Netherlands, the unresolved regulation of supply and production and the control of the Mecca effect. In: Betrifft Justiz, 2009, 119-123.
  • Introductions to the sociology of law as contemporary models of society. In: Journal of Legal Sociology 32 (2011), 243-257.
  • Failures of war tribunals: from Leipzig, Nuremberg, and Tokyo to Milosevic and Saddam Hussein. 2011. In: Law, society and history: themes in the legal sociology and legal history of Lawrence M. Friedman / Robert W. Gordon and Morton J. Horwitz (eds.). - Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 137-145.
  • Push and pull of judicial demand and supply. In: Michele and Henrik Schmiegelow (eds.) Institutional competition between common law and civil law: theory and policy. Springer: Heidelberg 2014, 299-322.
  • Mobilization of the German Federal Constitutional Court. In: Ralf Rogowski and Thomas Gawron (eds.) Constitutional Court in Comparison: The US Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court. Berghahn: New York / Oxford 2016, 92-108.

About Erhard Blankenburg

  • Obituary by Johannes Feest, in: Newsletter of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law [1]
  • Obituary by Klaus F. Röhl: Legal Sociology Blog, 2018
  • Obituary by Vincenzo Ferrari: " Erhard Blankenburg: in memoriam". In: Oñati-IISL eNewsletter, No. 54 (April 2018) .
  • Jürgen Brand / Dieter Strempel (eds.) Sociology of the law. Festschrift for Erhard Blankenburg on his 60th birthday. Baden-Baden: Nomos 1998.
  • Helmut Morasch: Blankenburg on the Internet. Virtual forms for the future of legal sociology. In: Festschrift (see above), 1-10.
  • Thomas Raiser: The emergence of the association for legal sociology. In. Festschrift (see above), 11-18.
  • Theo Rasehorn: A judge fell among the legal sociologists. Memories of Erhard Blankenburg and other legal sociologists. In: Festschrift (see above), 19-28.
  • Dieter Strempel: Erhard Blankenburg - a paradigm for the entire sociology of law: successful in terms of content, unsuccessful institutionally. In: Festschrift (see above), 29-42.
  • Pieter Ippel: The Morality of Empiricism, in: Festschrift (see above), 79-87.
  • Ralf Rogowski: Obituary for Erhard Blankenburg (1938–2018) . In: Journal of Legal Sociology . tape 38 , no. 1 , 2018, ISSN  0174-0202 , p. 168-172 , doi : 10.1515 / zfrs-2018-0013 ( degruyter.com ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary , accessed on April 18, 2018, cf. also Festschrift for the 60th birthday in the Google book search
  2. ^ Klaus F. Röhl: On the death of Erhard Blankenburg . rsozblog.de. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Blankenburg, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal sociologist and professor at the Free University of Amsterdam
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2018
Place of death Amsterdam