Gustav Adolf Walz

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Gustav Adolf Walz (born November 15, 1897 in Rötenberg , Württemberg , † December 17, 1948 in Rottweil ) was a German international lawyer . Oriented towards German idealism , he was an opponent of the legal positivism of Hans Kelsen and Felix Kaufmann . As a National Socialist , he was involved in the Academy for German Law .

Life

The son of a teacher took part in the First World War as a war volunteer since 1915 and served as a reserve lieutenant in a Bavarian artillery regiment. From 1919 to 1923 Walz studied law at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and at the University of Munich. In 1919 he was a member of the Tübingen student battalion. 1924 doctorate he there to the Dr. iur. In 1928 he also received his doctorate for Dr. phil.

Marburg

1927 habilitation rolling at Marburg University with a thesis on Kant's political philosophy . In his inaugural lecture he dealt with the nature of public law . In 1931 he became a member of the NSDAP . As a private lecturer in Marburg , he was listed for the first and last time as a member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers in 1932. In 1933 he was chairman of the Nazi teachers' association in Marburg. In October 1933 he was made a non-official associate professor. After three weeks he was appointed to a chair . The Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich waived his appointment because it was intended for Breslau.

Wroclaw

Several universities wanted to win Walz: Heidelberg in November 1934, Tübingen 1935, Göttingen 1937.

On November 1, 1933, he came to the chair of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau without a formal appointment procedure . Although the Senate voted unanimously for the re-election of Hans Helfritz in November 1933 , Walz became rector in December 1933 . The official inauguration was probably only the summer semester 1934. A Habilitand was Hans Ulrich Scupin . As rector and president of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture (1935–1938), Walz was against Catholicism . He wanted to make Breslau a "political east center" and create an imperial university in Breslau . When he couldn't get his plans through, he gave up. On top of that, the expansion of the Eastern Europe Institute - a central project for Walz - turned into a fiasco because the SS confiscated three quarters of the books. In May 1937 he voluntarily resigned from his post as "Führer Rector".

Early end

The Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education appointed him to a chair at the University of Cologne in 1938 ; but already in 1939 he moved again as full professor of international law, legal philosophy and state philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There, too, he is unlikely to have had any effect, because from 1940 to 1942 he supervised the University of Brussels as commissioner on behalf of the NSDAP . From 1942 to 1945 he headed the German Scientific Institute in Agram .

From the French military government in automatic arrest taken, he was released provisionally and definitively on 12 June 1946 1945th He died at the age of 51.

Works (selection)

  • On the nature of public law . Academic inaugural lecture, F. Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1928.
  • Nature of international law and criticism of the deniers of international law . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1930. Part of the Handbuch des Völkerrechts; Vol. 1, Section 1a.
  • International law and state law. Studies on the effects of international law on domestic law . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1933.
  • The end of the interim constitution - reflections on the emergence of the National Socialist state . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1933.
  • The relationship between international law and state law according to the National Socialist legal conception . Journal of International Law XVII 1934, pp. 145ff.
  • With Walther Willimsky: People and Leader: A Contribution to the Basic Questions of the Völkisch Reich. With e. Vorw. V. Gustav Adolf Walz, Armanen Verlag, Leipzig 1936.
  • Nationality, Law and State . Lecture before d. Reichsstelle zur Förderg d. German literature. F. Hirt, Breslau 1937. Belongs to the annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture: Humanities series; Number 1.
  • Species equality versus equality. The two basic problems of law . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1938.
  • New foundations of ethnic group law . Deutscher Rechtsverlag, Berlin a. a. 1940.
  • International legal order and National Socialism. Investigations for the renewal of international law . Rather publisher, Munich 1942.
  • The concept of the constitution . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1942. Writings of the Academy for German Law; H. 4

editor

  • with Axel von Freytagh-Loringhoven : Journal for Eastern European Law - On behalf of the Eastern European Institute in Breslau . From 1934.
  • Paul Heilborn, Arthur Wegner: Basic concepts and history of international law .
  • Fritz Stier-Somlo : Handbook of International Law . Berlin

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 , 2nd edition Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 655
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Message from Michael Stolleis
  3. ↑ German law teachers (koeblergerhard)
  4. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 180.
  5. ↑ Dissertation: The legal problem in international law. A legal philosophical and legal systematic study of international law
  6. ^ Probable philosophical dissertation: The state idea of ​​rationalism and romanticism and the state philosophy of Fichtes. At the same time an attempt to lay the foundations for a general social morphology . GoogleBooks
  7. ↑ M. Stolleis (1999)
  8. ↑ a b c Th. Ditt (2011)
  9. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  10. ↑ LMU civil status (1941) (PDF; 6.0 MB)
  11. ↑ Frank-Rutger Hausmann, "Even in war the muses are not silent". The German Scientific Institutes in World War II , 2nd edition, Göttingen 2002, p. 303 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Walz, Gustav Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German international lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Rötenberg , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1948
Place of death Rottweil , Württemberg