Erich Küchenhoff

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Erich Paul Alfred Küchenhoff (born June 30, 1922 in Liegnitz ; † May 23, 2008 in Münster ) was a German civil rights activist, constitutional law professor and politician ( SPD ).

The grave of Erich Küchenhoff and his wife Eva in the Münster Central Cemetery.

Life

Küchenhoff completed elementary school, then grammar school, graduated from high school in 1939. At the age of 17 he was drafted into the armed forces. The years of military service and the ensuing prisoner of war lasted from 1940 to 1947. On his return, he completed a law degree at the University of Münster . His doctorate took place there in 1956 with a thesis on the federal distribution of competencies. The habilitation thesis that he submitted at the University of Cologne was published in 1967 by Duncker & Humblot in Berlin. He first became a lecturer and later professor for public law and political science at the University of Münster. The Allgemeine Staatslehre , edited by him together with his uncle Günther Küchenhoff , appeared in eight editions until 1977.

Küchenhoff became a member of the SPD in 1962, member of the SPD executive committee for Münster-Stadt from 1964, then deputy chairman of the Münster sub-district, chairman of the working group of social democratic lawyers in the Münster sub-district, city councilor in the Münster city council from 1969. Electoral term on February 19, 1973 in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament and belonged to it until May 27, 1975.

Küchenhoff was also a committed pacifist and civil rights activist outside parliament . He was involved in the Humanist Union , the peace movement , the Working Group of Social Democratic Lawyers, the Arnold Freymuth Society , the Darmstadt Signal and the Gustav Heinemann Initiative . Civil disobedience as a legal institution was the title of his acceptance speech at the 1983 Fritz Bauer Prize award and at the same time describes Erich Küchenhoff's motto in life.

Works

  • Possibilities and limits of conceptual clarity in the theory of forms of government. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.
  • Image falsifications. European Publishing House, Frankfurt.
  • (Ed.): The representation of women and the treatment of women's issues on television - an empirical study by the University of Münster. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1975.
  • with Günther Küchenhoff: General State Doctrine. 8. revised u. supplementary edition Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne, Mainz 1977.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Münster from June 29, 2007: Mayor calls Prof. Erich Küchenhoff “one of the best-known and most distinguished personalities in our city”  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.muenster.de  
  2. ↑ State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia: Detailed view of the MP Prof. Dr. Erich Küchenhoff
  3. ↑ Humanist Union of August 8, 2008: Obituary by Prof. Dr. Rosemary Will
  4. ^ Speech on the occasion of the Bauer Prize of the Humanist Union. In: processes No. 62/63 (Issue 2-3 / 1983), pp. 140–159
personal data
SURNAME Küchenhoff, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Küchenhoff, Erich Paul Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil rights activist, constitutional law professor and politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2008
Place of death Muenster