Hans F. Zacher

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Hans Friedrich Zacher (born June 22, 1928 in Erlach am Inn , Lower Bavaria , † February 18, 2015 in Starnberg ) was a German legal scholar . He was a full professor of public law, in particular German and Bavarian constitutional and administrative law, at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law . From 1990 to 1996 he was President of the Max Planck Society . Zacher played a key role in founding social law as a scientific subject in Germany.

Life

Hans Friedrich Zacher was born the son of a primary school teacher. After studying law in Bamberg, Erlangen and Munich, Hans F. Zacher passed the state law examinations in 1951 and 1955, while he was already doing his doctorate in 1952. His doctoral supervisor was constitutional and administrative lawyer Hans Nawiasky . From 1955 to 1963 he worked in the Bavarian internal administration and at courts (Bavarian Administrative Court, Federal Constitutional Court). In 1962 he completed his habilitation and was appointed full professor for constitutional, administrative and canon law at the University of Saarland, where he taught from 1963 to 1971. In 1971 he followed the call of the law faculty of the University of Munich and taught public law there. In 1996 he retired.

From 1975 to 1980 he was also head of the Max Planck project group for international and comparative social law; from 1980 to 1992 director of the resulting Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law .

From 1990 to 1996 he was President of the Max Planck Society . As director emeritus of the institute, he was an honorary member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

Zacher was co-founder and later honorary chairman of the German Social Rights Association . In 1981 he was elected a full member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He was also a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in Rome since 1994 and of the Academia Europaea since 1990 .

Hans F. Zacher presented numerous publications in the field of German, comparative, European and international social law, as well as on social policy, constitutional law, business law, research law and research policy as well as on the state and the church. He was active in policy advice (Social Security Code Commission, Old Age Insurance Commission), and since 1967 scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Economics, also advising social institutions (including board member of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare) and also in other European and international ones Organizations (including founding member of the European Institute for Social Security, member of the International Advisory Board of the International Council on Social Welfare).

Awards and honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Treatises on social law II. Ed. By Ulrich Becker / Franz Ruland . Heidelberg 2008.
  • Six decades of legal history. In: Martin Huber / Gerhard Lauer (eds.), Science and University. Self-portrait of a generation. Wolfgang Frühwald on his 70th birthday, 2005, pp. 95–144.
  • Democracy in Debate. The Contribution of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2005).
  • The social goal of the state. In: Handbook of the constitutional law of the Federal Republic of Germany. Edited by Josef Isensee / Paul Kirchhof . Vol. 1, Heidelberg 1987, pp. 1045-1111; Revised in: Handbuch des Staatsrechts. Volume II Constitutional State. Edited by Josef Isensee / Paul Kirchhof, Heidelberg 2004, pp. 659–784.
  • Basics of social policy in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: History of social policy in Germany since 1945. Ed. By the Federal Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs / Federal Archives. Vol. 1: Fundamentals of Social Policy, Baden-Baden 2001, pp. 333–684.
  • Research, Society and Community. Juristische Studiengesellschaft Karlsruhe, issue 208. Heidelberg 1993.
  • Treatises on social law. Edited by Bernd Baron von Maydell / Eberhard Eichenhofer. Heidelberg 1993.
  • Introduction to the social law of the Federal Republic of Germany. Heidelberg, 1st ed. 1983, 2nd ed. 1983, 3rd ed. 1985.
  • Social policy and constitution in the first decade of the Federal Republic of Germany , Berlin 1980.
  • Comparison of social law in the framework of international and supranational law. Colloquium of the project group for international and comparative social law of the Max Planck Society. Series of publications for international and comparative social law, vol. 2. Berlin 1978.
  • Methodical problems of the comparison of social law. Colloquium of the project group for international and comparative social law of the Max Planck Society. Series of publications for international and comparative social law, vol. 1. Berlin 1977.
  • International and European social law. A collection of worldwide and European international and supranational sources and documents. Percha 1976.
  • Materials on the Social Security Code , loose-leaf. Percha 1974–1979.
  • Report on the commercial law applicable in the Federal Republic of Germany. Competition series - legal alignment, No. 20. Brussels 1973; = Rapport sur le droit économique en république fédérale d'Allemagne. Série Concurrence - Rapprochement des Législations, No. 20. Bruxelles 1973.
  • Freedom Democracy . History and State, Vol. 139/140. Munich / Vienna 1969.
  • The plurality of society as a legal and political task . In: Der Staat, Vol. 9 (1970), pp. 161-186.

literature

  • Steffen Augsberg : Hans F. Zacher and the "discovery" of social law. In: Carsten Cremer (ed.): The science of administrative law in the early Federal Republic (1949–1977). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, pp. 331-344, ISBN 978-3-16-155530-5 .
  • Ulrich Becker: Hans F. Zacher 75 years. In: Journal for Foreign and International Labor and Social Law 17 (3/4), 2003, pp. 243–246.
  • Eberhard Eichenhofer: Hans F. Zacher on his 80th birthday. In: Die Sozialgerichtsbarkeit , 2008, pp. 347–348.
  • Peter Lerche : Hans F. Zacher on his 75th birthday . In: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) , 2003, p. 1853.
  • Hans-Jürgen Paper : Hans F. Zacher on his 65th birthday. In: Archives of Public Law (AöR) , Vol. 118 (1993), pp. 321-324.
  • Konstantinos Kremalis: Appointment to honorary doctorate from the University of Athens - presentation of the work of Professor Hans F. Zacher. In: Epitheorisis Dikeiou Koinonikis Asfaliseos 1 (2001), pp. 76-78.
  • Franz Ruland , Bernd Baron von Maydell , Hans-Jürgen paper (ed.): Constitution, theory and practice of the welfare state. Festschrift for Hans F. Zacher on his 70th birthday. 1998
  • Michael Stolleis : Hans F. Zacher (1928–2015). In: Peter Häberle , Michael Kilian , Heinrich Wolff : Constitutional law teacher of the 20th century. Germany, Austria, Switzerland . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston (2nd edition) 2018, pp. 1189–1196, ISBN 978-3-11-054145-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Max Planck Society mourns Hans F. Zacher. Strategist and visionary in times of upheaval . February 19, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2015 (obituary).
  2. ↑ Heribert Prantl : The inventor of social law. The great lawyer Hans Zacher has died . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 21, 2015, p. 17.
  3. ↑ List of Harnack Medal holders , website of the Max Planck Society, accessed on October 21, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Zacher, Hans F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zacher, Hans Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Erlach am Inn
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2015
Place of death Starnberg