Fritz Münch (legal scholar)

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Fritz Münch (born April 8, 1906 in Oberhomburg (Hombourg-Haut) , † October 29, 1995 ) was a German international lawyer .

biography

Fritz Münch spent his youth in Bocholt , where he graduated from high school in 1923. After a bank apprenticeship, he studied law in Münster , Heidelberg , Bonn , Geneva , Berlin and Kiel . In 1929 he was a trainee lawyer in Kiel and in 1931 his work Is to hold on to the concept of servitude under international law? to the Dr. jur. PhD . From 1931 to 1935 he was assistant to the German judge Walter Schücking at the Permanent International Court of Justice in The Hague . In 1935 he became a lawyer and in-house counsel in the lignite mining industry in Halle . From 1943 he took an active part in the Second World War as a soldier and in 1945 was taken prisoner in Belgium.

Münch returned to Germany in 1949 and completed his habilitation in 1951 at the University of Bonn. There he received an extraordinary professorship and became a consultant in the Ministry for Affairs of the Federal Council . In 1955 he became head of the Berlin department of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law .

Fritz Münch was a member of the Committee on Politics and International Law of the Association of Expellees . From 1952 to the summer of 1972, Münch was a member of the CDU . He was an advisor to the Silesian Landsmannschaft and, together with Bolko von Richthofen , initiated the Association of East and Sudeten German Landowners and Damaged Persons eV (GOG) in 1970 . On November 19, 1972, he ran for the NPD in the federal elections.

In 1976 Münch, who had also written for the National-Zeitung , was the winner of the Ulrich von Hutten Medal , which is donated by the right-wing society for free journalism . MdB Hans Wissebach gave the laudation .

literature

  • Karl Doehring : Fritz Münch April 8th, 1906 - October 29th, 1995. In: Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. Annual report. 1995, ISSN  1430-4066 , (obituary for Fritz Münch).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Ostpreußenblatt, October 19, 1968, p. 6
  2. ↑ Judith Schachtmann, Thomas Widera (ed.): Politics and science in prehistoric archeology. Perspectives from Saxony, Bohemia and Silesia (= Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research. Reports and Studies 56). V & R unipress, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-741-9 , p. 138.
  3. ↑ Hans-Dieter Bamberg: The Germany Foundation eV studies on forces of the “democratic center” and conservatism in the Federal Republic of Germany (= Marburg treatises on political science 23). Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1978, ISBN 3-445-01376-4 , pp. 3 and 317.
  4. ^ Alwin Meyer, Karl-Klaus Rabe: Our hour will come. Right-wing extremism among young people . Lamuv-Verlag, Bornheim-Merten 1980.
personal data
SURNAME Münch, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German international lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhomburg
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1995