Hans Michael Heinig

Hans Michael Heinig (born March 9, 1971 in Lingen (Ems) ) is a German legal scholar. Heinig is head of the Canon Law Institute of the Evangelical Church in Germany and holds the chair for public law, in particular canon law and state church law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Life

After graduating from high school at Georgianum Lingen and doing civil service, Heinig began studying law, history and social sciences, first in Hamburg, then in Hanover and Bochum. After the first state examination in law (1998) and an internship with the representative of the EKD Council , he was employed as a research assistant at the Martin Morlok chair in Düsseldorf, where he did his doctorate and received the dissertation award from the faculty there. From 2002 to 2004 he completed his legal clerkship at the Heidelberg Regional Court , including a position in the department of Udo Di Fabio at the Federal Constitutional Court and the Federal Chancellery . After passing the second state examination in law, Heinig worked as a research assistant to Görg Haverkate at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg until 2008 . Heinig completed his habilitation there and received the venia legendi for the subjects of public law, legal philosophy , canon law , European law and social law . Then he was appointed to the chair for public law, especially church law and state church law (W3) in Göttingen. Since then he has also headed the Canon Law Institute of the Evangelical Church in Germany. For the academic year 2020/21, Heinig has accepted an invitation as a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . Heinig has been a member of the Volkswagen Foundation's Board of Trustees since 2019 .

Heinig is the managing editor of the journal for Protestant church law and co-editor of the Jus Ecclesiasticum series, the publications on social law and the series on religion in the Federal Republic. He was co-editor of the German Law Journal . Heinig is Synodal of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and was a member of the Presidential Assembly of the Evangelical Church Congress and the Presidium of the Ecumenical Church Congress 2010 .

Heinig has been married to the theologian and regional bishop Petra Bahr since 1996 and has one son.

Research priorities

Heinig deals in particular with Protestant church law , the function of state church law , its perspectives and its relationship to European law, as well as the modernization of church administrations . He is also active in the area of ​​possible future basic security models in German and European social law (especially with regard to the health system ) as well as in the area of ​​political party, electoral and parliamentary law. He is also interested in constitutional theory and legal philosophy . In 2015, for example, he gave the lecture at the annual conference of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers on the positioning of the national constitution in the European legal framework.

Positions

Heinig strongly criticized the judgment of the Cologne Regional Court from May 2012, which classified the religiously required circumcision of a Muslim boy as bodily harm and called on the legislature to act quickly so that "the long phase of widely vaunted religious freedom and religious friendliness of the German legal system [not] tempi passati ”. Hans Michael Heinig has raised concerns about freedom ethics against nudging . After the headscarf ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court in March 2015, Hans Michael Heinig complained about the contradictory better position of Islam compared to Christianity, since the crucifix had been banned from school across the board, but the headscarf was rightly not. However, he welcomed the clear rejection of secularism and a Christian-culturalist understanding of the constitution.

Fonts

Monographs

• Religious societies under public law. Studies on the legal status of the religious societies in Germany and the European Union incorporated in accordance with Art. 137 para. 5 WRV . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003 (Diss. Jur.).
• The welfare state in the service of freedom. On the formula of the “social” state in Article 20, Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008 (Habil. Jur.).
• The constitution of religion. Contributions to religious constitutional law . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014.
• Secular state - many religions. Religious political challenges of the present , Kreuz Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-946905-53-0 .

As editor

• Cases and solutions to state church law . Boorberg, Stuttgart 2005.
• together with Hans Ulrich Anke and Heinrich de Wall : Handbook of Protestant Church Law . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-154606-8 .

Articles and articles in manuals

• Religious freedom . In: Stephan Gosepath u. a. (Ed.): Handbook of political philosophy and social philosophy . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, pp. 1109–1113.
• Tightening or farewell to neutrality? Two misguided alternatives in the debate about the traditional principle of religious and ideological neutrality . In: JuristenZeitung 2009, pp. 1136–1140.
• Are referendums an answer to the European Union's democracy dilemma? In: ZG 2009, pp. 297-311.
• Sponsorship of party events. Constitutional requirements and non-party legal specifications . In: JuristenZeitung 2010, pp. 485–495.
• European social administration law . In: Jörg Philipp Terhechte (Ed.): Administrative Law of the European Union . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, pp. 1115–1142.
• Human dignity and the principle of the welfare state as normative foundations of the subsistence level - a history of development interested in theory . In: Jonathan Fahlbusch (Ed.): 50 years of social welfare - a commemorative publication . Verlag German Association for Public and Private Welfare, Berlin 2012, pp. 13–42.
• Solidarity in the federal network: repercussions on the status of citizens and their rights . In: Christian Calliess (Ed.): European Solidarity and National Identity , 2013, pp. 143–158.
• Protestantism and Democracy . In: Journal for Protestant Church Law , vol. 60 (2015), 227–264.

Newspaper articles

• Secular, but not secular. In: FAZ of January 5, 2018, p. 6
• Religion at the University: University for Liberated Prayer . In: DIE ZEIT of March 12, 2017
• Which way? The Austrian Islam law is not a model for Germany. In: FAZ of March 5, 2015, p. 6.
• When the diakonia is on strike . In: FAZ of March 22, 2012, p. 8.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Michael Heinig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the Canon Law Institute of the Evangelical Church in Germany
• Homepage of the chair for public law, especially church law and state church law at the Georg-August University of Göttingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.verfassungsblog.de/der-gesetzgeber-ist-ge Zeiten-ein-vorschlag-zur-regel-der- approximatelyzision-im-gesetz-ber-die-religise-kindererendung /
2. ↑ http://www.verfassungsblog.de/gibt-es-eine-ethik-des-nudging/#.Vh1Efry5mRs
3. ^ Matthias Kamann: Religion: Protestants criticize the headscarf judgment. In: welt.de . March 20, 2015, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Hans Michael Heinig: Religion at the University: Uni for Liberated Prayer . In: The time . March 12, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 20, 2018]).