Gerhard Hoffmann (legal scholar)

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Gerhard Hoffmann (born June 21, 1917 in Weißenfels , † March 26, 2009 in Marburg ) was a German international lawyer .

Life

Gerhard Hoffmann was born in Weissenfels in 1917 as the son of an architect. Growing up there, he graduated from the Reform Realgymnasium in 1936. From 1936 he studied law at the universities of Halle , Munich , Königsberg and Jena . In 1940 he passed his first legal exam and was drafted into the armed forces after the assessor exam at the latest in 1943 . He finally spent the time up to the end of the war in captivity .

From 1946 to 1951 Hoffmann was an assessor in a law firm in Weißenfels. In 1952 he was at Alfred Voigt at the University of Erlangen with a thesis on the international legal personality of the individual in contemporary international law to Dr. iur. utr. PhD . He then attended the Hague Academy for International Law . In 1955 he passed the second state examination in law. In 1960 he completed his habilitation in Erlangen, received the Venia legendi for public law and international law, and became a private lecturer in international law, constitutional and administrative law there . From 1960/61 he held the chair for international law, constitutional and administrative law at the University of Erlangen and 1961/62 for public law at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1963 he received a call to ordinary professor of public law , particularly international law and European law in Marburg, which he held until the 1985th From 1965 to 1966 he was dean of the law faculty and headed the local institute for public law.

Alongside Norbert Achterberg, Hoffmann was one of the first to advocate the pure legal theory of the legal scholar Hans Kelsen , who for a long time stood in the shadow of Karl Larenz's methodology . Hoffmann was a commentator on the Bonn Commentary on the Basic Law . In addition, his essay On the usefulness of international law in our time and his work on international criminal law have been noted in professional circles . He was a member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers , the German Society for International Law and the Society for Research on Germany .

Hoffmann was married and had one child.

Awards

In 1985 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. iur. Et rer. Pol. Hc) from the Law Faculty of the University of Pécs , Hungary.

Fonts (selection)

  • The subjectivity of the individual under international law in contemporary international law , Erlangen 1952.
  • Criminal responsibility in international law , Metzner, Frankfurt am Main 1962.
  • The division of Germany , Neske, Pfullingen 1969.

literature

  • Inge Auerbach: Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers at the Philipps University of Marburg . Volume 2: From 1911 to 1971 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , Volume 15, 2). Elwert, Marburg 1979, ISBN 3-7708-0662-X , p. 108.
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . 27th edition 1988/1989. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1988, ISBN 3-7950-2008-5 , p. 580.
  • Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . 17th edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-11-014916-8 , p. 584.
  • Eva Wedel-Schaper, Christoph Hafner, Astrid Ley (arr.): The professors and lecturers at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1743–1960 . Part 1: Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Law (= Erlangen Research: Special Series . Vol. 5). On behalf of the rector, ed. by Renate Wittern , University Library, Erlangen 1993, ISBN 3-922135-92-7 , p. 128.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Stolleis : History of Public Law in Germany . Volume 4: Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies in West and East. 1945–1990 . CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63203-7 , p. 442.
  2. ^ Michael Stolleis: History of Public Law in Germany . Volume 4: Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies in West and East. 1945–1990 . CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63203-7 , pp. 389, 446.
  3. ^ Gerhard Hoffmann: On the usefulness of international law in our time . In: Ingo von Münch (Ed.): Constitutional Law - International Law - European Law. Festschrift for Hans-Jürgen Schlochauer on his 75th birthday on March 28, 1981 . de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1981, ISBN 3-11-008118-0 , p. 363 ff.
  4. ^ Obituary by Gilbert Gornig.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2009
Place of death Marburg