Georg Hermes (lawyer)

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Georg Hermes (* 1958 in Dortmund ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

From 1976 to 1981 Georg Hermes studied law and political science at the universities of Bonn , Geneva and Freiburg im Breisgau . After his first (1981) and second (1988) state legal examinations , he received his doctorate in law in 1986 and completed his habilitation in 1997 at the University of Freiburg.

Hermes practiced as a lawyer from 1988 to 1989 . From 1989 to 1992 he was a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court , after which he was a fellow of the German Research Foundation until 1995 . After acting as professor at Bielefeld University in 1994 , from 1996 to 1997 at the University of Frankfurt am Main and from 1997 to 1998 at the Technical University of Dresden , since 1998 he has been a full professor for public law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Georg Hermes' research focuses on infrastructure and state organization law . He has created several expert opinions on current political issues and political actors judicially, such as Alliance 90 / The Greens in the election review procedure before the Hessian State Court against the decision of the Verification court because of the use of illegally received political donations , the CDU in Hesse state election campaign in 1999 had used .

In September 2019 he was one of about 100 constitutional law teachers who, with the open appeal for the right to vote, Downsized the Bundestag! turned to the German Bundestag .

Hermes is married and has two daughters.

Fonts (selection)

  • Georg Hermes: The basic right to protection of life and health. Obligation to protect and claim to protection from Article 2, Paragraph 2, Sentence 1, Basic Law . In: Freiburg legal and political science treatises . tape 46 . Müller Juristischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1987, ISBN 3-8114-4386-0 (Zugl .: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 1985/86).
  • Georg Hermes, Joachim Wieland : The state toleration of illegal behavior. Dogmatic consequences of official inaction in environmental and tax law . In: Forum Law . tape 20 . Müller, Jur. Verl, Heidelberg 1988, ISBN 3-8114-6188-5 .
  • Georg Hermes: State responsibility for infrastructure. Basic legal structures of network-bound transport and transmission systems between services of general interest and competition regulation using the example of line-bound energy supply in Europe . In: Jus publicum . tape 29 . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-16-146820-1 (Zugl .: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1996/97).
  • Georg Hermes: Constitutional law and simple law - constitutional and specialized jurisdiction. Primary and secondary legal protection in public law: reports and discussions at the conference of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers in Würzburg from October 3 to 6, 2001 . In: Publications of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers . tape 61 . De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2002, ISBN 3-11-089874-8 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110898743.119 ( degruyter.com [accessed January 17, 2019] Reprint 2013).
  • Georg Hermes, Franz Reimer (ed.): State law Hessen. Study book . 9th edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8487-3237-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jutta Ochs: In conversation: From the fun of stepping into the full life of the legal dispute. Jutta Ochs at Georg Hermes . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . May 9, 2001, p. 26 .
  2. Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .