Georg Brunner (lawyer)

Georg Brunner (born June 2, 1936 in Budapest , † October 24, 2002 in Cologne ) was a German - Hungarian lawyer and political scientist .

Georg Brunner studied law at the University of Budapest from 1954 to 1956 and after fleeing Hungary from the communist regime in Tübingen in 1956 . In 1959 the first took place in 1963, the second state examination in Baden-Württemberg. In 1962 he received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen with a thesis on fundamental rights in the Soviet system . From 1960 to 1963 he worked as a court trainee in the service of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Grave in the Melaten cemetery

From 1964 to 1971 he worked as a research assistant at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies in Cologne. 1970 took place at the University of Cologne with the work control in Germany . for the subjects of public law , general state theory and Eastern law his habilitation. From 1971 to 1984 Brunner taught public law, Eastern law and political science at the University of Würzburg as a professor . In Würzburg he wrote pioneering works for political science such as Political Sociology of the USSR (1977) and Comparative Government Studies (1979). From 1984 to 2002 he was professor for public law, general political theory and Eastern law and director of the Institute for Eastern Law at the University of Cologne. In 1998, he was awarded the University of Pécs , the honorary doctorate . In September 2002 he was able to experience the beginning of the first semester of the Andrássy University in Budapest, which he co-founded , before his unexpected death almost two months later. He was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 56).

His main research interests in public law were the democratic-constitutional transformation in Eastern Europe, the EU's eastward expansion, constitutional jurisdiction and minority law. From the field of commercial law, it was the legislation to establish a social market economy in Eastern Europe.

From 2000 until his death he was president of the Göttingen working group .

literature

• Mahulena Hofmann (ed.): Continuity and a new beginning. State and Law in Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Festschrift for Georg Brunner on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7262-1 .
• Alexander Steininger: Georg Brunner - 65 years. In: Eastern Europe , H1, 2002, p. 88 f.
• Alexander Steininger: In memory of Georg Brunner. In: Eastern Europe, Volume 52, Issue 12, 2002, p. 1628 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Brunner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry at the University of Cologne