Görg Haverkate
Görg Haverkate (born August 2, 1942 in Essen ; † December 30, 2006 in Brittany ) was a German legal scholar and university lecturer in public law . He emerged from his work in social and constitutional law as well as legal philosophy .
Life
Haverkate studied law at the Universities of Tübingen and Münster from 1964 to 1968 ; afterwards he was a trainee lawyer in Cologne from 1968 to 1971 .
From 1971 to 1977 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Cologne with Martin Kriele ; In 1976 the doctorate took place there with a thesis on " Loss of certainty in legal thinking - the political function of the legal method", which historically traced the political content of legal method discussions in an ideology-critical sense.
Haverkate completed his habilitation in 1981 at the University of Cologne in the subjects of public law and general political science. The habilitation thesis “Legal Issues of the Benefit State. Proportionality requirement and protection of liberty in the performing state action ”on a far reaching historical and political philosophical basis analyzed the proportionality requirement as an instrument of the control of the modern performance and intervention state and the dangers of freedom caused by this state understanding.
1984–1989 Haverkate taught as a professor at the University of Frankfurt . In 1989 he was appointed full professor to the chair for social law, constitutional and administrative law, general political theory at the University of Heidelberg . Since 1998 he has also been director of the Institute for German, European and International Medical Law, Health Law and Bioethics at the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim (IMGB).
Publications (selection)
- Görg Haverkate / Stefan Huster : European social law. An introduction. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999.
- Görg Haverkate: Constitutional theory. Constitution as a reciprocal system. Beck, Munich 1992.
- Görg Haverkate: Legal issues of the benefit state. Proportionality requirement and protection of liberty in performing state action. Mohr, Tübingen 1983 (also habilitation thesis, Cologne 1981).
- Görg Haverkate: Loss of certainty in legal thinking. On the political function of the legal method. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1977 (also dissertation, Cologne 1977).
Web links
- Homepage of the IMGB at imgb.de
- Press release from Heidelberg University on his death on uni-heidelberg.de
- Obituary in: NJW 2007, 571 on jura-hd.de (Chair for Social Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, General Political Science)
- Publications by Görg Haverkate in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haverkate, Görg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 2006 |
| Place of death | Brittany |