Ferdinand O. Kopp

Ferdinand Kopp (1992)

Ferdinand Otto Kopp (born January 12, 1932 ; † July 2, 1995 in Munich ) was a German teacher of constitutional law .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1950 at the humanistic Maximilian-Gymnasium in Munich and studying in the USA, Kopp began studying law and economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich . He graduated in 1955 the exam as a diploma in economics , 1956, qualified as a business graduate and 1957, the First State Exam. In the same year he received his doctorate in law. After taking the optional subjects French, Italian, Spanish and Russian at school, he also learned Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Japanese and Chinese during his studies. As an assistant at Murad Ferid's Institute for Comparative Law , he further qualified in English, American and French law. The second state examination followed in 1960.

After that, Kopp entered the public service, where he worked as an administrative officer at both the federal and state levels. In 1962 he was seconded to the United Nations for a year and a half as an administrative expert to advise the Libyan government and as a lecturer at the Administration School in Tripoli . In 1965 he was appointed judge at the Munich Administrative Court , and in 1967 he was promoted to Chief Administrative Judge at the Bavarian Administrative Court .

In 1969 he completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a thesis on “Constitutional law and administrative procedural law”, which was supervised by Hans Spanner . Kopp accepted an offer at the University of Graz in 1970, where he taught as a full professor for public law until 1978 . From 1977 he was also a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck for Italian and German public law. In 1978 he accepted a call to the law faculty of the newly founded University of Passau to the chair for public law, in particular administrative law , administrative procedural law and administrative theory , which he held until his death in 1995. In 1988 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Innsbruck.

Ferdinand O. Kopp was married and had four sons.

On January 26, 1996, an academic memorial service was held in his honor at the University of Passau on the occasion of his death. At the end of October 2007 a commemorative publication by Kopp's chair successor Dirk Heckmann was published with the title “Modernization of Justice and Administration” in Richard Boorberg Verlag , which was presented to the Kopp family during an academic ceremony on November 9, 2007 at the University of Passau. The preface to this was written by the Federal President of the Republic of Austria Heinz Fischer , who had been habilitated in 1978 by a habilitation commission at the University of Innsbruck headed by Ferdinand O. Kopp .

Act

Ferdinand O. Kopp is one of the most important processualists of the 20th century. His two comments on the VwGO and the VwVfG are standard works of public procedural and procedural law, which in particular could significantly influence the case law of the administrative courts (for example, the juris database in the case law section in November 2007 counted around 19,000 decisions in which Kopp cited has been).

Works

• Historical and contemporary interpretation of laws , dissertation 1954/1957
• Constitutional law and administrative procedural law , post-doctoral thesis 1971
• Administrative court regulations, commentary , Munich CH Beck, 1st edition 1974, 10th edition 1994 (then continued under Kopp / Schenke , currently 18th edition 2012)
• Administrative Procedure Act, Commentary , Munich CH Beck, 1st edition 1976, 6th edition 1996 (thereafter continued under Kopp / Ramsauer , currently 13th edition 2012)

literature

• Dirk Heckmann (ed.): Modernization of the state and administration, memorial for Ferdinand O. Kopp. Boorberg, 2007 - ISBN 978-3-415-03936-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Ferdinand O. Kopp in the catalog of the German National Library