Erk Volkmar Heyen

Erk Volkmar Heyen (born February 11, 1944 in Swinoujscie ) is a German legal scholar and historian . From 1992 to 2009 he was a professor at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald .

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Heyen studied law, philosophy, political and social sciences in Kiel , Paris and Constance from 1963 to 1972 . In 1973 he was awarded a Dr. jur. as well as Lic. phil. doctorate , he also passed the assessor examination in Hamburg. In the same year he became a research assistant at the chair for legal and social philosophy, sociology at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer with Hans Ryffel . From 1979 to 1981 he worked as a consultant at the research institute for public administration belonging to the DHV Speyer . There he completed his habilitation for legal and social philosophy and public law in 1980/81 . Between 1981 and 1985 Heyen worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt a. M. active. Between 1985 and 1987 research stays in Aix-en-Provence ( scholarship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation ) and Florence (Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute) followed. In 1988 he worked as a research fellow of the Max Planck Society .

From 1989 to 1991 Heyen took over professorships at the universities in Freiburg im Breisgau for Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde and in Göttingen for Christian Starck.In 1991, he was appointed professor of public law in Göttingen , before becoming chair of public law, administrative history and legal philosophy in 1992 in Greifswald. In 1999, he turned down a call to the University of Erfurt for a chair in European legal and constitutional history. Since 2000 he has held the chair for public law and European administrative history in Greifswald.

The focus of the research was on European administrative history, in particular the history of German and French administrative law as well as official ethics. From 1989 to 2008 Heyen published an interdisciplinary and comparative “Yearbook for European Administrative History” (YEN), which became internationally known. After that, he mainly devoted himself to the resonance of political-administrative structures and processes in painting.

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As an author:

• Otto Mayer . Studies on the intellectual foundations of his administrative law studies. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-428-05030-4 .
• Profiles of German and French administrative law 1880–1914. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-465-02210-6 .
• Managed worlds. Man, community and office in European painting. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-006380-5 .

As editor:

• History of Administrative Law in Europe. Status and problems of research. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-465-01528-2 .
• Science and law of administration since the Ancien Régime. European views. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-465-01629-7 .
• Historical sociology of law. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-465-01687-4 .
• with Olivier Beaud: A Franco-German Law? Critical balance and perspectives of a cultural dialogue. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-6145-X .
• Yearbook for European Administrative History (YEN). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1989-2008. ISSN  0937-7107 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Erk Volkmar Heyen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Erk Volkmar Heyen at EMAU Greifswald