Hans Gerber (legal scholar)

Hans Gerber (born September 29, 1889 in Altenburg , † October 16, 1981 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Gerber studied law in Heidelberg , Munich , Berlin and Jena and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Heidelberg . From 1919 he was co-editor of the Young German Voices . In 1923 he completed his habilitation for public law in Marburg . He taught there initially as a private lecturer and since 1927 as a non-scheduled adjunct professor of public law. He then worked as a professor of public law in Tübingen from 1927 , moved to Leipzig in 1934 , where he taught constitutional law, political theory and international law and was dean of the law faculty from 1935 to 1937 . From 1941 he was Professor of Public Law at Freiburg , where he retired in 1957 . From 1947 to 1948 he headed the Assenheim branch of the central office of the Gustav-Adolf-Werk .

Gerber was known as a representative of Nazi legal theory by 1933 at the latest. He wrote in the magazines Das neue Hamburg , Deutsches Volkstum , Young German Voices and German Work . Since 1933 he was a member of the SA (as a convicted Stahlhelm member) . He was also a member of the NSKK , the NS-Rechtswahrerbund and the NSV . In the Second World War he worked as an army judge and was active in the humanities during the war .

In 1934 Gerber became the first non-theologian to take over the chairmanship of the Gustav Adolf Association, which was influential in church politics. He introduced the leader principle there and thus brought the association to "self-alignment", but thanks to the support of the Foreign Office was also able to give it a certain degree of independence.

Publications

• The prohibition of the reformatio in peius in the Reich criminal trial , jur. Diss., Jena 1913.
• Money and State , Jena 1926.
• Minority rights in the German Reich , Berlin 1929.
• The idea of ​​the state in recent evangelical-theological ethics , Berlin 1930.
• The Eternal Empire , Tübingen 1933.
• Political education of civil servants in the National Socialist state , Tübingen 1933.
• Basic lines of constitutional law of the new Reich , Tübingen 1933.
• The law of the scientific universities in the most recent legal development , 2 vol., Tübingen 1965.

literature

• Martin Bullinger : Hans Gerber . In: AöR 106 (1981), pp. 651-654.
• Michael Stolleis : History of Public Law in Germany. Vol. 3: Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies in the Republic and Dictatorship 1914–1945 . Munich 1999, p. 285 ff.
• Marc Zirlewagen: Biographical Lexicon of the Associations of German Students. Vol. 1: Members A – L. BoD 2014, ISBN 9783735722881 , pp. 250-253.

Web links

• Entry in the Leipzig professor catalog (German)
• Estate in the university archive of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 66.
2. ↑ Helmut Fangmann : The restoration of the dominant constitutional law studies after 1945. In: Udo Reifner (Hrsg.): The right of the Unrechtsstaates. Campus, Frankfurt 1981, p. 211 ff., Here p. 225.
3. ↑ Cf. Gisa Bauer: Protestantism and Germanness. The Gustav-Adolf-Verein and the national idea. In: Diaspora work through the ages. Festschrift on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the founding of Gustav-Adolf-Werk eV - diaspora work of the Evangelical Church in Germany. Publishing house of the Gustav-Adolf-Werk, Leipzig 2007.
4. ↑ Norbert Friedrich : The Gustav-Adolf Association in the time of National Socialism . In: Norbert Friedrich, Traugott Jähnichen (Ed.): Social Protestanism in National Socialism. Diaconal and Christian-social associations under the rule of National Socialism (= Bochum Forum on the History of Social Protestantism , Volume 4). Lit, Münster 2003, pp. 55-68.

predecessor	Office	successor
Franz Rendtorff	President of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein 1934–1944	Gerhard Heinzelmann