Ernst Wolgast

Ernst Johannes Christoph Wolgast (* 6 June 1888 in Kiel ; † 26. April 1959 in Nuremberg ) was a German national and international law .

Life

Wolgast attended the 3rd boys' community school and the high school in Kiel. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Universities of Kiel and Munich . Wolgast was a trainee lawyer from 1912 to 1915 . From 1915 to 1921 he worked in the Foreign Office , from 1919 as legation secretary . In 1916 Wolgast received his doctorate from the University of Kiel. jur. From 1921 to 1929 he taught as a private lecturer at the universities of Kiel, Königsberg Pr. , Riga , Bonn and again Königsberg. Wolgast then taught there as an extraordinary associate professor . From 1929 to 1934 he taught as a full professor of public law at the University of Rostock and from 1934 to 1945 at the University of Würzburg (especially church law , international law , private international law and legal philosophy ). He joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 and was expelled from the party on December 11, 1944, shortly before the end of the war.

In 1946 Wolgast was a defense attorney before the International Military Court in Nuremberg . From 1947 to 1948 he was a lecturer at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg and at the University of Economics and Social Sciences in Nuremberg . Finally, he taught in Nuremberg from 1948 to 1954 as a full professor of public law. In 1955 Wolgast retired .

Wolgast was of Protestant faith. He was with Frieda Bertha Wolgast, geb. Nehlsen married and had a daughter with her: Dr. jur. Marianne, married. Cramer from Clausbruch.

Fonts

Essays

• Bavaria's State History , in: Economy and Society. Festschrift for Hans Proesler on his 65th birthday , Erlangen 1953, pp. 100–131.
• Eberhard Freiherr von Scheurl as a teacher of public law , in: Eberhard Freiherr Scheurl von Defersdorf. Meeting in memory of the first teacher for public law at the University of Nuremberg , Nuremberg 1953, pp. 13-20.

Monographs

• The backwardness of political science. Studies on the State's Foreign Violence , Wiesbaden 1956.
• Outline of international law. Part 1: General principles , Hanover 1950.
• Revision of the doctrine of the state , Nuremberg 1950.
• Maritime power and governance. Developed at Athens and England , Berlin 1944.
• Lex Regia. The Danish and German Governance Act , Würzburg 1935.
• International law. With a systematic list of collective agreements under international law , Berlin 1934.
• On the essence of Europe. Limits - awareness, interior design, relationships to the world , Rostock 1933.
• Europe, its borders and its being in social terms , Königsberg / Pr. 1932.
• The combat government. A contribution to the doctrine of cabinet formation after the Weimar Constitution , Königsberg / Pr. 1929.
• To German parliamentarism. The struggle for Article 54 of the German Reich Constitution. A study on constitutional law , Berlin 1929.
• The extradition laws of Norway, Sweden and Finland. With a systematic presentation of the main features of the Nordic extradition law with regard to the enactment of a German extradition law , Berlin / Leipzig 1928.
• (under the pseudonym Severus Clemens ): The job of the diplomat , Berlin 1926.
• The Wimbledon trial before the League of Nations Court , Berlin-Grunewald, 1926.
• History of the Schleswig-Holstein church constitution , Kiel 1921.
• The Weimar Constitution , 1919.
• Modern democracy , Oslo 1917.
• The legal status of the Schleswig-Holstein consistory. A contribution to the assessment of the relationship of the regional church to the state , jur. Diss., Kiel 1916.

Wolgast also published numerous individual works.

literature

• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. 5. T – Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 328 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Wolgast in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Ernst Wolgast in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium