Ernst Reibstein

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Ernst Reibstein (born May 31, 1901 in Kaiserslautern ; † August 26, 1966 in Bern ) was a German journalist and historian of international law .

Life

Reibstein was the son of a secondary school teacher (teacher) for newer languages ​​in Kaiserslautern. He studied law in Heidelberg and Berlin. Because of a hiring freeze for civil servants in the 1920s, he turned to journalism and initially became an assistant at the Institute for Newspaper Studies in Berlin. In 1925 he became the foreign policy editor of the Wolff Telegraph Office (WTB) and was in Paris from 1926. From 1928 he was a correspondent in Geneva and Bern. He reported on many international conferences such as those of the League of Nations. After taking over the WTB in the DNB , he was their correspondent in Bern. After July 20, 1944, he was ordered back because he refused to write against Switzerland, but he stayed in Bern. In 1949 he moved from Bern to Wolfenweiler near Freiburg.

He is known through various treatises on the history of international law and its intellectual historical roots in natural law , although he did not begin to publish in this area until 1949. He worked as a private scholar and worked with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He became famous for a treatise on Johannes Althusius , in which he traced the beginnings of modern international law not back to the Reformation, but to older currents from the late Middle Ages, which were worked out in the school of Salamanca . In addition, he published studies on the Spaniard Fernando Vázquez de Menchaca (Vasquius), as a connection between the Salamanca school and Hugo Grotius , and the Swiss Josias Simler and a summary in the series Orbis academicus , which also deals with developments up to the 20th century . He also dealt with the international law of the Hanseatic League and thus aspects of economic history.

Fonts

  • Johannes Althusius as the continuation of the School of Salamanca. Investigations on the history of ideas of the constitutional state and on the old Protestant doctrine of natural law, Freiburg legal and political science treatises, vol. 5, Karlsruhe: CF Müller 1955
  • The beginnings of the newer natural and international law. Studies on the Controversiae illustres by Ferdinand Vasquius (1559), Bern 1949
  • Respublica Helvetiorum. The principles of the federal state doctrine in Josias Simler , Bern: P. Haupt 1949
  • International law, 2 volumes, Orbis academicus, Karl Alber Verlag, Munich / Freiburg, 1958, 1963 (Volume 1: From Antiquity to Enlightenment, Volume 2: The Last Two Hundred Years)
  • Popular sovereignty and freedom rights. Texts and studies on political theory from the 14th to 18th centuries, 2 volumes, Orbis academicus (special volumes), Karl Alber Verlag, 1972
  • The ʺEuropean Public Law-18 1648-1815: an overview of the history of institutions, Archiv des Völkerrechts, Volume 8, 1960, pp. 385-420
  • Pufendorfs Völkerrechtslehre, Austrian Journal for Public Law and Völkerrecht, Volume 7, 1955/56, pp. 43–72
  • From Grotius zu Bynkershoek , Archives of International Law, Volume 4, 1953
  • About Juan de Mariana , The State, Volume 1, 1962, pp. 479-486

In the journal for foreign public law and international law:

  • General constitutional law and international law with Carl Gottlieb Svarez : on the edition of the "Crown Prince Lectures", Volume 22, 1962, pp. 509-539
  • The international law of the German Hanseatic League, Volume 17, 1956, pp. 38–92
  • German Grotius commentators up to Christian Wolff , Volume 15, 1953, pp. 76-102
  • Johann Gottlieb Heineccius as a critic of the Grotian system, Volume 24, 1964, pp. 236-264
  • Neumayr von Ramsla as an international law author, Volume 14, 1951/52, pp. 125–152
  • The international law casuistry of the Abbé de Mably , Volume 18, 1957/58, pp. 229–260
  • The dialectic of sovereign equality in Vattel , Volume 19, 1958, pp. 607–636

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the obituary by Hermann Mosler in 1966 in the journal for foreign public law and international law, it is indicated that this meant great financial sacrifices for him personally
  2. ↑ Online
personal data
SURNAME Reibstein, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1966
Place of death Bern