Erhard Denninger

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Erhard Denninger (born June 20, 1932 in Kortrijk , Belgium , † December 1, 2021 ) was a German constitutional law teacher and publicist . He was rector of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Career

Denninger studied philosophy and law at the universities of Tübingen, Lausanne and Mainz from 1950 to 1956 . After the state exams (1956/60) and doctorate (1958) he was an assistant. In 1966 he completed his habilitation with Peter Schneider at the University of Mainz and then accepted a teaching position there.

In 1967 Denninger was appointed to a chair for public law and legal philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. From 1978 to 1979 he was dean of the faculty, from 1970 to 1971 rector and 1973/1974 head of the university department in the Hessian Ministry of Education under Ludwig von Friedeburg . In 1993/1994 he was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and from 1995 to 2000 he was deputy judge at the Thuringian Constitutional Court . In 1999 he retired as professor.

Denninger was co-organizer and moderator of the Römerberg Talks in Frankfurt am Main from 1979 to 2001 .

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! applied to the German Bundestag .

Awards

  • 1999 Awarded the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal of the State of Hesse
  • 2004 Laurea honoris causa (Dr. iur. Hc) from the University of Florence.
  • 2013 Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Commendatore)

Private

Erhard Denninger had been married to an Italian from Umbria since 1961 and was the father of two daughters. He lived in Königstein im Taunus . He died on December 1, 2021.

Fonts (selection)

  • Erhard Denninger: The traditional function of the sea bill of lading in international private law . In: Works on comparative law . tape 6 . Metzner, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1959 (also Mainz, law and economics F., dissertation of Jan. 28, 1960).
  • Erhard Denninger: Legal entity and solidarity. A contribution to the phenomenology of the rule of law with special consideration of Max Scheler's social theory . Metzner, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 1967 (also Mainz, law and economics F., Hab.Schr. February 4, 1966).
  • Erhard Denninger: The basic rights / administration in the rule of law and welfare state . In: Rudolf Wiethölter (Ed.): Law. Funk College for Understanding Modern Society. tape 4 . Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main October 1968, p. 335-346, 346-358 .
  • Erhard Denninger: Staatsrecht I: Introduction to the basic problems of constitutional law in the Federal Republic of Germany. The guiding principles: Empty formulas? Lying? Legitimations? In: rororo-Studium . tape 34 . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-499-21034-7 .
  • Erhard Denninger: Staatsrecht II: Introduction to the basic problems of the constitutional law of the Federal Republic of Germany. Functions and institutions . In: rororo-Studium . tape 121 . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-499-21121-1 .
  • Erhard Denninger: Constitutional loyalty and protection of the constitution. The public service in the state of the present. Reports and discussions at the conference of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers in Bonn from April 4th to 7th. October 1978 . In: Publications of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers (VVdStRl) . Reprint 2012 edition. tape 37 . De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 1979, ISBN 978-3-11-088048-9 , pp. 7-173 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110880489.7 .
  • Co-editor and co-author of the commentary on the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany , series of alternative comments , Luchterhand Neuwied 1984 ff.
  • Erhard Denninger: The tamed Leviathan . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2062-1 .
  • Hans Lisken, Erhard Denninger: Handbook of Police Law . Ed .: Hans Lisken , Erhard Denninger. CH Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35625-7 (6th edition 2018).

literature

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sources

  1. a b Thomas Vesting: The department mourns the loss of Prof. Dr. Drhc Erhard Denninger. Goethe University, Faculty of Law, December 1, 2021, accessed on December 11, 2021 .
  2. Topic: Traditional function of the sea bill of lading in international private law
  3. Topic: Legal entity and solidarity - a contribution to the phenomenology of the rule of law with special consideration of Max Scheler's social theory
  4. Erhard Denninger, Dr. iur. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, accessed on December 11, 2021 (German).
  5. Römerberg Talks Frankfurt am Main: 1973 to today , accessed on October 10, 2016.
  6. Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .
  7. Erhard Denninger, in: Peter Hahn (Ed.): Literatur in Frankfurt , athenäum, Frankfurt am Main, 1987, p. 143. ISBN 3-610-08448-0