Georg-Christoph von Unruh

Georg-Christoph von Unruh (born September 28, 1913 in Klein-Münche , Birnbaum district , Posen province , † June 21, 2009 in Kiel ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Georg-Christoph von Unruh studied law and political science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität from 1933 . He became active in the Corps Palatia Bonn . When he was inactive , he moved to the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1940 he passed the first state examination. With a doctoral thesis with Ernst Forsthoff , he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . After working as an assistant at the University of Posen , he was a soldier from 1943 to 1945. After the end of the Second World War he worked in the Leer district administration ; In 1965 he was appointed administrative director there. In 1964 he completed his habilitation at the Westphalian Wilhelms University . In addition to his work in Leer, he has since taught as a private lecturer in Münster. In 1967 the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel appointed him to its chair for public law and administrative law , in particular church law , constitutional history and administrative history . He was also a judge at the Schleswig Higher Administrative Court . The Corps Saxonia Kiel thanked him for his commitment to the Corps during the 1968 movement by awarding the ribbon .

He published numerous scientific papers and books. From 1983 to 1985 he was co-editor of the German Administrative Gazette . His last publication dealt with the East Frisian land law . He wrote the obituary for Klaus von der Groeben , the "Nestor of German administrative history". The Lorenz von Stein Institute for Administrative Sciences in Kiel honored him in 2010 with a memorial symposium on self-government in the state of the information society .

Honors

• Honorary member of the Heimatverein Leer
• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (August 10, 1982)
• Decoration of honor for services to the Karl-Franzens-University Graz in silver (1984)
• Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class (May 24, 1989)

Works

• with Kurt Jeserich and Hans Pohl : German administrative history , 6 volumes. Stuttgart 1983-1986.
• The development of local law in Schleswig-Holstein. Sources and considerations, Städtebund Schleswig-Holstein , Kiel 1985.
• The State. Considerations on the foundations and limits of sovereign power , Böhlau, Vienna 1985 (= Research - Teaching - Responsibility , Volume 1).
• Administrative jurisdiction in the constitutional state. Problems and Development , Maximilian-Verlag, Herford 1984.
• (together with Wolfgang Steiniger): State and self-government in Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark , Matthiesen, Husum 1982.
• Regional and administrative reform in Lower Saxony 1965–1978 , Hanover 1978.
• (together with Friedrich and Gitta Greve): Basic course in public law. An introduction to constitutional and administrative law with basic principles of general political theory , Metzner, Frankfurt a. M. 1976 (6th edition, Luchterhand, Neuwied 2003).
• The district administrator. Mediator between state administration and local self-government, Grote, Cologne 1966.
• The circle. Origin and order of a municipal body , Grote, Cologne 1965.

literature

• Utz Schliesky (Ed.): Self-administration in the state of the information society. Documentation of the memorial symposium in honor of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Georg-Christoph von Unruh on June 29, 2010 in Kiel , Lorenz-von-Stein-Institute for Administrative Sciences at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel 2010.
• Albert von Mutius (Ed.): Self-government in the state of industrial society. Ceremony for the 70th birthday of Georg Christoph von Unruh , v. Decker, Heidelberg 1983.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg-Christoph von Unruh in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on koeblergerhard.de
• Unruh, Georg Christoph von . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ He was too young for the Kösener Corps lists in 1930, too old for the KCL in 1960 and the later ones because Palatia had been excluded from the KSCV in 1956.
2. ^ Dissertation: Studies on the divine right of the Catholic majesties and the Prussian monarchs .
3. ^ Habilitation thesis: The circle. Origin and order of a communal body .
4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 148/465.
5. ↑ Professor von Unruh has died . In: Generalanzeiger , July 1, 2009.
6. ^ Die Verwaltung 35 (2002), pp. 289–292.
7. ↑ Honors ( memento of November 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), University of Graz, viewed on July 1, 2009.
8. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office, August 14, 2011.