Friedhelm Hufen

Friedhelm Hufen (born December 24, 1944 in Winterberg ) is a German lawyer , professor and former member of the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate (2008-2016).

Hufen studied law and political science at the Universities of Münster , Freiburg and Princeton (USA). He passed his state exams in Freiburg in 1969 and 1975. In 1974 he received his doctorate there under Konrad Hesse . His habilitation took place in 1982 with Hans-Peter Schneider in Hanover. From 1982 to 1986 Hufen was Professor of Public Law at the University of Augsburg , 1986 to 1993 Full Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy at the University of Regensburg and since 1993 he has been Full Professor of Public Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Mainz .

His main areas of work are constitutional law , administrative law , cultural law , medical law and food law. He was visiting professor in New Orleans , Cape Town and Paris . In 2004/2005 he was deputy chairman of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers . He is a member of the University Council of the University of Regensburg and deputy. Chairman of the pre-implantation diagnostics - ethics committee of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Thuringia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland. He was a member of the Central Ethics Commission at the German Medical Association and the Bioethics Commission of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.

In September 2019 he was one of about 100 constitutional law teachers who, with the open appeal for the right to vote, Downsized the Bundestag! turned to the German Bundestag .

Hufen is married and has four children.

literature

• Max-Emanuel Geis: Friedhelm Hufen on his 65th birthday . In: JuS 12/2009, SX

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedhelm Hufen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Hufen at the University of Mainz
• Friedhelm Hufen, "Culture Clause in the Basic Law?" In Humboldt Forum Law
• IVD: Bill on the ordering principle breaks with coalition agreement and violates the constitution

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .