Hans Helfritz (legal scholar)

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Hans Hugo Helfritz (born February 21, 1877 in Greifswald , † May 9, 1958 in Erlangen ) was a German constitutional lawyer and ministerial official. From 1919 to 1945 he was a professor at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University.

Life

Helfritz comes from a dignitary family from Greifswald. His grandfather was Georg Beseler , teacher of Otto von Gierke , who would later influence Helfritz. Hans Helfritz was born in Greifswald in 1877 as the son of Hugo Helfritz , mayor and member of the Prussian manor house . After graduating from the humanistic school Greifswald he studied from 1895 jurisprudence at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin (3 semesters) and the University of Greifswald (4 semesters). From 1896 he was a member of the Corps Pomerania Greifswald. In 1898 he passed the legal traineeship in Stettin and in 1903 the second legal exam. Then he was a court assessor in Greifswald. In 1905 he was at Otto von Gierke at the University of Greifswald to Dr. iur. PhD . The work was stimulated by Wilhelm Kahl . From 1906 to 1911 he was City Counsel in Greifswald, then (1911) Regierungsassessor in the Prussian General State Administration and Government in Aurich . He also worked in a secular consistorial post. From 1906 to 1911 he studied also economics at the University of Greifswald. In 1911 he was at Karl Oldenberg addition to Dr. phil. PhD. 1914 habilitation Helfritz at Wilhelm Kahl at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin for State - and administrative law and received the Venia legendi . In the same year he worked as an alternative in the university department in the Prussian Ministry of Culture in Berlin. Once, one-year volunteer of Culmer hunter, he served in the First World War with a mounted machine gun department as a captain of the reserve . In 1918 he was a brief curator and lecturer in law at the German University of Dorpat . In 1919 he became a lecturer in the general councils of the universities in the Prussian Ministry of Culture in Berlin. From 1918 Helfritz was a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP). He was active in local politics and in 1922 took over the chairmanship of the Wroclaw DNVP . He was a monarchist and German national and as such was hostile to the Weimar Republic .

In the same year Helfritz came to the chair for constitutional, administrative and international law at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1928 he was reprimanded for a monarchist article by the Prussian minister of education, Carl Heinrich Becker, and removed from the examination committee of the Breslau Higher Regional Court ; in addition, the more liberal Ludwig Waldecker was appointed to Breslau. In the spring of 1933 Helfritz was elected rector of the University of Breslau. As early as autumn 1933 he - who was critical of the Nazi regime - was replaced by the international lawyer Gustav Adolf Walz . But Helfritz continued to teach at the University of Breslau until 1945. In the Second World War he served as a soldier in the army (Wehrmacht) . As a lieutenant colonel , he was on the staff of the V Army Corps .

In 1945 Helfritz was appointed acting representative of the full professorship for constitutional, administrative and international law at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen , but then dismissed. In 1947 he was reinstated. From 1947 to 1951 he again temporarily represented the chair. In the post-war period in Germany he publicly defended the Mensur . In 1949 he became a full professor and a little later retired.

Helfritz was u. a. Member of the Historical Commission for Silesia , member of the Herder Institute in Riga , chairman of the Humboldt Association in Wroclaw, member of the German Society for Defense Policy and Defense Sciences , member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers and member of the Zwinger Society in Wroclaw. His academic students included a. Thomas Ellwein , Günther Küchenhoff , Hans Peters , Hans Ulrich Scupin and Gerhard Wacke .

Family grave Helfritz in the old cemetery Greifswald

Helfritz, baptized as an Evangelical Lutheran and married since 1904, was the father of three children. He was buried in the old cemetery in Greifswald .

Honors

Fonts

  • The historical inventory and the legislative usability of revocation, apology and declaration of honor. J. Abel, Greifswald 1905 (legal dissertation, University of Greifswald, 1905).
  • The finances of the city of Greifswald at the beginning of the nineteenth century and in the present. With a study of the history of the Greifswald city constitution (= political and social science research. H. 161). Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1912 (phil. Dissertation, University of Greifswald, 1911).
  • The representation of the cities and rural communities to the outside in the municipal law of the eastern provinces of Prussia. A contribution to organ theory. C. Heymann, Berlin 1916 (habilitation thesis, University of Berlin, 1914).
  • Outline of Prussian local law (= self-administration in science and practice. H. 2). Vahlen, Berlin 1922; 2nd, revised and expanded edition 1927; 3rd, revised and expanded edition 1932.
  • Statecraft and party politics. A sketch. C. Heymann, Berlin 1923.
  • General constitutional law as an introduction to public law. With an outline of the state theories. C. Heymann, Berlin 1924; 2nd, expanded edition 1928; 3rd, expanded and changed edition: People and State: Constitutional History of the Modern Age. With an outline of the state theories. 1938; 4th, expanded and modified edition 1944; 5th, expanded and modified edition: Allgemeine Staatsrecht. With an outline of the state theories. Albert Nauck, Cologne / Berlin 1949.
  • Administrative law files. C. Heymann, Berlin 1927.
  • Basic features of civil service law. Industrieverlag Spaeth & Linde, Berlin 1929.
  • History of the Prussian Army Administration. C. Heymann, Berlin 1938.
  • The British Empire (series of lectures by the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau in the war winter 1940/41 ). Published by the University and the University Association. Korn, Breslau 1941.
  • Wilhelm II as emperor and king. A historical study. Scientia, Zurich 1954.
  • The University of Breslau as a foster home for the German spirit. In: Yearbook of the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau. Vol. 1, 1955, pp. 9-21.

See also

literature

  • Privy Councilor Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Helfritz † . Erlanger Tagblatt, 100th year, No. 108 (1958).
  • Hans Helfritz , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 24/1958 of June 2, 1958, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Thomas Ditt: "Shock Troop Faculty Breslau". Law in the "Grenzland Schlesien" 1933–1945. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150374-0 , p. 20 ff.
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 73 f.
  • Hans Spanner : Hans Helfritz † . In: Bulletin of the University Association , New Series No. 18 (1958), p. 19 f.
  • Michael Stolleis : History of Public Law in Germany: Weimar Republic and National Socialism. Special edition, Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48960-5 , p. 160 f.
  • Gerhard Wacke : Friedrich Giese and Hans Helfritz on the thought . In: AöR 1958, p. 121.
  • 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. 124 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Michael Stolleis: History of public law in Germany. Vol. 3: Weimar Republic and National Socialism. Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48960-5 , p. 160 f.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corp lists 1930, 56/545.
  3. ↑ Philosophical dissertation: The finances of the city of Greifswald at the beginning of the nineteenth century and in the present: With a study on the history of the Greifswald city constitution (= political and social science research. H. 161). Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1912.
  4. ↑ Entry in the dissertation catalog of the University Library of Basel .
  5. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  6. ↑ Michael Stolleis: History of Public Law in Germany , Vol. 3: Weimar Republic and National Socialism. Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48960-5 , p. 161, footnote 35.
personal data
SURNAME Helfritz, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helfritz, Hans Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German constitutional lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1958
Place of death gain