Franz Mayer (legal scholar, 1920)

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Franz Anton Mayer (born May 29, 1920 in Mitterfels , † December 14, 1977 ) was a German legal scholar . He was a professor in Speyer and Regensburg as well as rector of the University of Regensburg and founding president of the Eastern European Institute in Regensburg.

Life

Mayer was born in 1920 as the son of a senior government councilor. After graduating from high school in 1938 at the humanistic high school in Straubing , he did Reich labor service and military service . He was then called up for military service. From 1941 he studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn - during a stay in a hospital . At the end of the Second World War he was taken prisoner by Yugoslavia and spent in the Werschetz ( Vršac ) camp ; In 1949 he was released.

In 1949 he continued his studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1950 he passed the first state examination in law. In 1951 he was with the dissertation The position of the international legal system in modern constitutional law for Dr. jur. (cum laude) doctorate. Then he went to the preparatory service (in Straubing and Regensburg) and in 1953 passed the second state examination in law. In 1954 he became a government assessor in the government of the Upper Palatinate in Regensburg and then in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior in Munich. In 1958 he became a senior councilor .

In the same year he received a lectureship for Bavarian administrative law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and completed his habilitation on the work The independence of Bavarian administrative law, presented in Bavaria's police law . The writing was examined by Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte , Hermann Nottarp and Günther Küchenhoff . Mayer eventually became a private lecturer . In 1961 he received a full professorship for public law at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . In 1965 he went to the newly founded University of Regensburg , where he taught public law, in particular German and Bavarian constitutional and administrative law, as well as administrative theory. As the founding prorector, he also took over the official duties of the rector, Götz Freiherr von Pölnitz , until he was elected rector himself in 1967/68 . He was also a member of the Bavarian Administrative Court in Munich.

On his initiative, the East European Institute Regensburg was founded in 1968, which expanded in 1984 to become the East European Institute Regensburg-Passau. He was the first chairman of the Förderergesellschaft, co-editor of the journal of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe Der Donauraum , member of the Southeast Europe Working Group of the German Research Foundation and member of the scientific advisory board of the Southeast Europe Society in Munich.

Mayer was involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land . In 1975 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Maximilien Cardinal de Fuerstenberg and invested in the order on May 2, 1975 in the Regensburg Cathedral by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

From 1959 he was married to a lawyer and the father of two children.

After his death, a street in Regensburg ( Franz-Mayer-Straße ) was named after him.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The independence of Bavarian administrative law, represented in Bavaria's police law . Boorberg, Munich 1958.
  • Bavarian police and security law . Boorberg, Munich 1959.
  • The principle of opportunity in administration (= series of publications by the University of Speyer . Vol. 14). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1963.
  • (Ed.): State and Society. Commemoration for Günther Küchenhoff for his 60th birthday on August 21, 1967 . Schwartz, Göttingen 1967.
  • with Carl Hermann Ule (ed.): Constitutional and administrative law in Rhineland-Palatinate . Boorberg, Stuttgart 1969.
  • General administrative law. An introduction . Boorberg, Stuttgart a. a. 1970, ISBN 3-415-00014-1 . (5th edition 1985)
  • with Johann Mang , Theodor Maunz , Klaus Obermayer : Constitutional and administrative law in Bavaria . 4th edition, Boorberg, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-415-00376-0 .
  • with Heinrich Kipp , Armin Steinkamm (ed.): To right and freedom. Festschrift for Friedrich August von der Heydte on the completion of the 70th year of life presented by friends, students and colleagues . 2 volumes. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-03862-2 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Stolleis : History of Public Law in Germany . Volume 4: Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies in West and East 1945–1990 . Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63203-7 , p. 448.
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer, Franz Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Mitterfels
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1977