Hans Gmelin (legal scholar)

Hans Gmelin (born August 13, 1878 in Karlsruhe , † February 14, 1941 in Gießen ) was a German legal scholar .

Gmelin studied law and history at the universities of Tübingen , Heidelberg , Munich , Berlin , Bonn and Freiburg im Breisgau. He received his doctorate in 1905. As a student of Richard Schmidt he habilitated in 1906 at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg , was there in 1912 associate professor, moved in 1913 to the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and taught since the same year at the University of Giessen Landesstaats- and Administrative law as well as particularly intensive foreign public law in Romanic countries. He campaigned for federalism and pleaded for the preservation of Prussia as a member state of the German Empire. He especially published in the Public Law Yearbook . Gmelin was a founding member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers .

One of Gmelin's academic students was the future Federal Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano .

Fonts

Studies on the Spanish constitutional history of the nineteenth century , Enke, Stuttgart 1905 (also: University of Freiburg, jur. Diss., 1905).
On the extent of the royal law of ordinance and the right to impose a state of siege in Italy. Braunsche Hofbuchdruckerei, Karlsruhe 1907.
The Constitutional Development of Algeria. With an appendix, legal texts and drafts. Friedrichsen, Hamburg 1911.
Memorandum on the official language of the city of Brussels and the surrounding municipalities , Staatsdruckerei, Brussels 1918.
Why is the draft constitution for us South Germans unacceptable? von Münchow, Giessen 1919.
Does the second draft of the Reich constitution meet our expectations? Roth, Giessen 1919.
Introduction to Imperial Constitutional Law. Source u. Meyer, Leipzig 1929.
Political dependence on states (= special reprint from the Festgabe for Richard Schmidt on his 70th birthday January 19, 1932 ). Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1932.

Heinhard Steiger : Hans Gmelin. In: Hans Georg Gundel , Peter Moraw , Volker Press (eds.): Gießen scholars in the first half of the 20th century. Tl. 1, Marburg 1982, ISBN 978-3-7708-0723-9 , pp. 309-317.
Michael Stolleis : The History of Public Law in Germany . Vol. 3: Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies in the Republic and Dictatorship 1914–1945 , Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-37002-0 , pp. 141, 268.