Günther Holstein

Günther Holstein (born May 22, 1892 in Berlin , † January 11, 1931 in Kiel ) was a German constitutional lawyer and Protestant canon lawyer.

Life

As the son of a pharmacist Arthur Holstein he studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin jurisprudence . He returned home wounded from the First World War . In 1920 he was promoted to Dr. phil. and to D. theol. PhD . In 1921 he completed his habilitation in 1921 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn for public law . In 1922 he became the lecturer first representation of a chair at the Prussian University of Greifswald . Two years later he was appointed full professor of public law. In 1928 he wrote the basics of Protestant canon law as his main canon law . Shortly before his death in 1930, he moved from Greifswald to the chair for constitutional law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Holstein tried to counteract the legal positivism prevailing during the Weimar Republic from a national-conservative attitude and to found the right to a legal idealism supported by humanities. Holstein therefore tried to find a close connection to theology , philosophy and sociology . He was strongly influenced by Martin Luther , Friedrich Schleiermacher and Otto von Gierke , which among other things led to a high position in canon law for him.

In 1920 he had married the general daughter Hilde Bokmayer.

Since 1910 he was a member of the Corps Ratisbonia Munich . His academic student Adalbert Erler received his doctorate from Holstein in 1928 with a thesis on the status of the Protestant Church in the Free City of Danzig.

Honors

1928 D. theol. hc from the University of Greifswald

Fonts

with Karl Larenz : State Philosophy , Oldenbourg, Munich / Berlin 1933.
The basics of Protestant canon law , Mohr, Tübingen 1928.
Schleiermacher's state philosophy , Schroeder, Bonn / Leipzig 1923.
The doctrine of public property restrictions , Liebmann, Berlin 1921 (at the same time: jur. Diss., Berlin 1920).

literature

Holstein, Günther. In: Robert Volz (Ed.): Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 792.
Ernst Wolf : Holstein, Günther. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , pp. 552 f. ( Digitized version ).
Bernd Wildermuth ; Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Holstein, Günther. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1006. ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )

Web links

Literature by and about Günther Holstein in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry in the Kiel directory of scholars

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 114/257.

personal data
SURNAME	Holstein, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	January 11, 1931
Place of death	Kiel

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 114/257.