Franz Knöpfle

Franz Knöpfle (born August 27, 1926 in Lindau (Lake Constance) ; † September 2, 2013 in Stadtbergen ) was a German lawyer and university politician. He was the first elected President of the University of Augsburg from 1973 to 1979.

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From 1946 Franz Knöpfle studied law and economics at the Universities of Freiburg i. Br. And Munich . After the First Legal State Examination 1949 and the graduation as a graduate economist in 1952 received his doctorate he in 1952 at the University of Munich in Leo Rosenberg Dr. jur. From 1953 Franz Knöpfle worked as a fully qualified lawyer in the Bavarian State Administration and was seconded to Columbia University and administrative authorities in New York State for a one-year graduate course in American administration in 1954/55 .

In 1958 he was appointed senior councilor to the Bavarian State Chancellery , where he was then the youngest government director of Bavaria, where he was personal advisor to Prime Ministers Hanns Seidel , Hans Ehard and Alfons Goppel .

Franz Knöpfle completed his habilitation in 1965 at the University of Munich and in 1966 was offered a professorship at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer , where he was rector from 1969 to 1971.

In 1972 he took over the chair for public law , in particular administrative law and administrative theory , at the newly founded University of Augsburg, which he held until his retirement in 1996. From 1973 to 1979 Franz Knöpfle was the first elected President of the University of Augsburg.

From 1972 to 2002 Franz Knöpfle was also rector of the Munich School of Politics (HfP), and from 1972 to 2009 he was head of studies at the Administration and Business Academy Swabia (VWA). From 1987 he was Vice President of the Board of Trustees for the meetings of the Nobel Prize winners in Lindau, of which he was a member from 1975 to 2007. Since 1988 Franz Knöpfle has been chairman of the foundation board of the “ Catholic University of Eichstätt ”, in 2004 he was made an honorary senator. From 1988 to 2004 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Academy for Public Administration in the Federal Ministry of the Interior . Until 2007 he was a member of the University Council of the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and was a member of the Advisory Board of the Academy for Political Education , Tutzing until 2009 . From 1983, Franz Knöpfle was a liaison professor of the Hanns Seidel Foundation for the Augsburg universities. In 1998/99 he was President of the Rotary Club of Augsburg.

Awards

• Large Federal Cross of Merit
• Bavarian Order of Merit
• Commander's Cross of the Gregorius Magnus Order
• Golden Ring of Honor of the Augsburg district
• Medal of the Swabian district
• Bavarian Constitutional Medal in silver
• Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1952)
• Medal Pro Augsburg from the city of Augsburg

Fonts (selection)

• The general damage prevention suit , Diss. Munich 1952.
• Constitutional understanding and constitutional jurisdiction. On the origin, position and function of constitutional jurisdiction in Bavaria , Habil.-Schr., Munich 1964.
• The Constitution of the Bavarian Constitutional Court , Munich 1972.
• For Hanns Seidel's 80th birthday. A return , in: Politische Studien 259 (1981), pp. 453–456.
• The agreement of the municipality according to § 36 BBauG and regional planning regulations. For the extraction of gravel and sand outdoors according to Bavarian law , Hanover 1984.
• Constitutional jurisdiction in Bavaria. Development, legal understanding and today's importance , in. BayVerwBl 1984, Issue 9, pp. 257–262 and Issue 10, pp. 296–301.
• The granting of the status of a corporation under public law and the status of a civil servant employer to the Association of Bavarian Districts , 1987.
• The responsibility of the audit offices for the audit of corporations under public law , Cologne u. a. 1988.
• Information of parliament on the financial conduct of public broadcasters , Cologne a. a. 1990.

Co-editorships

• Political Journal (ZfP), since 1972
• German administrative gazette, since 1973
• The Constitution of the Free State of Bavaria, gre. Hans Nawiasky, ed. v. Karl Schweiger and Franz Knöpfle, since 1988

literature

• Franz Knöpfle and Peter Cornelius Mayer-Tasch (Hrsg.): University of Politics Munich. The "Hochschulführer 2000" for the 50th anniversary . Munich 2000.
• Ellen Latzin: Learning from America? The US cultural exchange program for Bavaria and its graduates . Stuttgart 2005.
• Werner Lengger: A little history of the University of Augsburg . Augsburg 2004.
• Detlef Merten , Reiner Schmidt and Rupert Stettner (eds.): The administrative state in transition. Festschrift for Franz Knöpfle on his 70th birthday . Munich 1996.
• Literature by and about Franz Knöpfle in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mourning for former President Prof. Dr. Franz Knöpfle ( Memento from September 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )