Gerd Roellecke

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Gerd Roellecke (born July 13, 1927 in Iserlohn ; † October 30, 2011 in Karlsruhe ) was a German legal scholar and legal philosopher .

Life

Roellecke was born in 1927 as the son of the businessman Wilhelm Roellecke and was baptized a Roman Catholic. He was a soldier from 1943 to 1945. After graduating from high school in 1947, he studied economics and law in Würzburg and Freiburg from 1948 to 1952 . In 1960 he was at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg with a thesis on inherent limits of judicial power by the Constitutional Court doctorate . From 1966 to 1969 he was a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe . In 1969 he completed his habilitation at the University of Mainz with a thesis on the concept of positive law and the Basic Law (see below). In the same year he was appointed to the University of Mannheim , where he held the chair for public law and legal philosophy until his retirement . From August 1, 1972 to July 31, 1974 he was President of the West German Rectors' Conference .

The readers of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung knew Roellecke from his numerous reviews. He passed away on October 30, 2011. The obituary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 3, 2011 was preceded by a sentence by Niklas Luhmann : "Everything could be different - and I can change almost nothing."

He was u. a. Member of the Clausewitz Society .

Work (selection)

  • with Patrick Bahners (ed.): Prussian styles. A state as a feat , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-608-94290-4 .
  • About the immanent limits of judicial power of the Federal Constitutional Court , Freiburg im Breisgau 1960 (Zugleiuch: Diss., Univ. Freiburg 1960).
  • The concept of the positive law and the Basic Law , Mainz 1969 (at the same time: Habil.-Schrift, Univ. Mainz 1969).
  • Constituent power as ideology , in: JZ 1992, pp. 929–934.
  • The decoupling of law and religion , in: JZ 2004, pp. 105–110.
  • Religion - law - culture and the idiosyncrasy of the systems. Revised version of a lecture given to the “Juristic Society of Berlin” on May 9, 2007 , De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89949-454-9 .

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Roellecke: Ethics in a society of equals . In: Clausewitz-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Yearbook 2010 . Volume 6, Hamburg 2009 (?), ISBN 978-3-9810794-5-6 , p. 285.
personal data
SURNAME Roellecke, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Röllecke, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2011
Place of death Karlsruhe