Fritz Poetzsch-Heffter

Fritz Poetzsch-Heffter (born May 21, 1881 in Skäßchen near Großenhain , † September 21, 1935 in Kiel ) was a German legal scholar .

After studying law and obtaining a doctorate, Poetzsch-Heffter worked as an assessor in the Saxon administration from 1910. After serving in the war, he worked as Legation Councilor and Privy Legation Councilor of the Saxon legation in Berlin from 1917. From 1919 to 1932 he was Saxony's deputy representative to the Reichsrat, and from 1922 he was a ministerial director. In 1932 he was appointed to a professorship for constitutional law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . Since 1933 he was the founder and head of the "Institute for State Research", which Reinhard Höhn later continued at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In 1935 Poetzsch-Heffter was killed in a car accident.

Fritz Poetzsch-Heffter was married to Eva Heffter. Her son Georg (1926–2013) was State Secretary in Schleswig-Holstein in the 1970s and 1980s .

Publications

• Is it possible to declare the commercial collective agreement as an institute under private law? Dissertation University of Leipzig 1907.
• Hand edition of the Reich constitution of August 11, 1919 , Liebmann, Berlin 1921.
• Manual commentary on the Reich constitution of August 11, 1919. A handbook for constitutional law and constitutional policy. 3rd edition, Liebmann, Berlin 1928.
• Basic ideas of the imperial reform . Liebmann, Berlin 1931.
• State research. A speech given on November 12, 1932 on the occasion of the opening of the Institute for State Research at the University of Kiel , Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel 1933.
• On German State Life (from January 30th to December 31st, 1933) . In: Yearbook of Public Law of the Present 22 (1935), pp. 1–272.

Web links

• Biography in the files of the Reich Chancellery
• Entry in the German biography