Friedrich Schack (lawyer)

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Carl Friedrich Schack (born October 1, 1886 in Parral (Chihuahua) , Mexico , † July 15, 1978 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and university professor with a research focus on constitutional and administrative law and foreign public law.

Life

Youth and Studies

Friedrich Schack was born in 1886 as the son of the Wiesbaden businessman Carl Schack. After graduating from high school in Wiesbaden in 1906, he studied law and economics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the Université de Lausanne , the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and the Philipps University in Marburg . During his studies in Lausanne he became a member of the Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne in 1906 .

In 1911 he completed his state examination and was in 1912 with the thesis "The public status of legal persons as traders" at the University of Würzburg Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

academic career

From 1912 to 1913, Schack worked as a company lawyer at Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim . From 1914 he was a private scholar under public law in Frankfurt a. M. and from 1924 in Berlin and worked as a writer, expert and lecturer without being bound by office or employment. These activities included numerous publications in the fields of constitutional law , international law , colonial law and civil service law and contributions to legal dictionaries and manuals as well as administrative and other magazines.

During this time he wrote two large monographs, which have become important because they drew a legal balance sheet at the end of a historical epoch. These are the examination of the legality of the law and ordinance of 1918 , based on a suggestion by Fritz Fleiner , on the one hand, and the work Colonial Law in its Development up to the World War , published in 1923 . The first dealt with the period of constitutionalism and was Schack's second dissertation, with which he was awarded a doctorate in 1918. iur. PhD. The second monograph, published in 1923, contained a comprehensive description of the term and the sources of colonial law in general as well as the legal historical development of German colonial law and its constitutional and international law foundations in particular.

Since 1936 he has been a lecturer for constitutional and administrative law and colonial law at the seminar for oriental languages ​​at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. On December 30th, he was appointed research assistant at the newly founded Institute for Colonial Law at the Hanseatic University in Hamburg.

Professorship in Hamburg

In 1941, Schack completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg , where in 1943 he became an extraordinary professor for constitutional law , administrative law and foreign public law , which he held for almost two decades until his retirement in 1954. From 1954 to 1962 he worked in Hamburg beyond his retirement.

In the difficult years of the war and the post-war period in particular, he played a major role in maintaining the teaching of public law, which he represented in its entirety. Friedrich Schack left an extensive scientific life's work behind. His list of publications in the “Hamburger Festschrift für Friedrich Schack” shows over 200 titles up to 1966, without claiming to be complete. There are also numerous popular scientific treatises, annotations of judgments and book reviews, as well as case law and literature reports.

In his essays, Friedrich Schack commented on a large number of important questions of constitutional and administrative law. He provided significant contributions in the areas of civil service law , the police law , the public property law and the right of public service compensation.

In 1962 he moved to the home of his partner in Munich. Schack died in 1978 at the age of 91.

Publications

  • Friedrich Schack In: Festschrift for Rudolf Laun on his eightieth birthday. Published by the Research Center for International Law and Foreign Public Law at the University of Hamburg. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, Göttingen 1962.
  • Friedrich Schack: Intergentiel law. Het Jursitenblad, Antwerp 1942.
  • Friedrich Schack In: The German working customer. Edited by Karl Peppler, Wilhelm Seedorf , Simon Rohrlich, Karl Zeleny; Paul Arndt ; Heinz Merr; Alfred way; Gerhard Starck; Friedrich Schack; Kurt Gersch; Gustav-Adolf Bulla, Emil Lessing, K. Weldmann, Schmelter, Helmut Turpits; Ernst Kunsdorff. Bibliogr. Inst. Ua, Leipzig 1940.
  • Friedrich Schack: The German colonial law in its development up to the world war - the general lessons; a reporting presentation of theory and practice together with critical remarks. Friederichsen, Hamburg 1923.
  • Friedrich Schack: The examination of the legality of law and regulation - with special consideration of Prussia and the German Reich. A study by Friedrich Schack. Siemenroth, Berlin 1918.

literature

  • Wolfgang Martens: Obituary for Friedrich Schack. Archive of Public Law (AöR) 103rd Volume, 1978, p. 603 f.
  • Hans Peter Ipsen (Ed.): Hamburg Festschrift for Friedrich Schack on his 80th birthday on October 1, 1966. Keip, Goldbach 1995, 1966 (With contributions by Diether Haas, Wolfgang Martens, Richard Naumann, Gert Nicolaysen, Helmut Quaritsch , Rolf Stödter , Werner Thieme and others)
  • Hans Peter Ipsen In: Archives of Public Law. (AöR) 92, 1967, p. 135.
  • Erwin Garvens : Directory of members of the Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne , Hamburg 1937

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Wolfgang Martens: Obituary for Friedrich Schack. AöR, Volume 103, 1978, pp. 603 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Schack, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schack, Carl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Parral (Chihuahua) , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1978
Place of death Munich