Hans Peters (legal scholar)

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Hans Carl Maria Alfons Peters (born September 5, 1896 in Berlin ; † January 15, 1966 in Cologne ) was a German legal scholar, constitutional lawyer and politician (CDU). He was a resistance fighter against National Socialism and a member of the resistance group / program group Kreisauer Kreis .

Life

After participating in the First World War, Peters studied law in Münster , Vienna and Berlin and received his doctorate in law in 1921 . From 1923 to 1933 he was employed in the Prussian Ministry of Culture and the Interior. In 1928 he was offered a professorship at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Breslau , where he completed his habilitation in 1925. In 1933 he was elected to the Prussian state parliament for the Center Party , of which he had been a member since 1923, and represented the Braun government before the State Court of Justice after the Prussian strike . In 1933 he became a member, in 1940 he took over the chairmanship of the Catholic Görres Society for the Care of Science , which, however, was banned by the National Socialists a short time later. During the Second World War he was an officer in an air force staff, but out of his deep rejection of National Socialism he supported a Berlin resistance group, helped persecuted Jews and belonged to the Kreisau circle around Helmuth James Graf von Moltke .

Peters was a co-founder of the CDU in Hamburg in 1945 and was the CDU representative for the Nuremberg Trials in February 1946 . In 1946 he became a full professor at Berlin University (from 1949: Humboldt University of Berlin ), was Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1947 to 1948 and a member of the Berlin city council . There he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group together with Kurt Landsberg . The parliamentary group also included Joachim Tiburtius , Hilde Körber and Ferdinand Friedensburg . He was one of the co-authors of the Berlin constitution . In 1949 Peters moved to the University of Cologne , where he was rector from 1964 to 1965. Here, too, he was represented on the Cologne City Council. In 1949 he was the re-founder of the Görres Society, its chairman until 1967 (successor Paul Mikat ).

In 1952 Peters was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested on May 1, 1952 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . In 1953 he became an honorary member of the Catholic student union AV Rheinstein Cologne in the CV. In 1966 he received the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Grave in Cologne's south cemetery

Peters published numerous scientific papers. He was editor of the handbook of municipal science and practice .

In 1986 the Petersallee in Berlin-Wedding , which was previously dedicated to Carl Peters , was named after him as part of a rededication.

His grave is in Cologne's southern cemetery (hall 43).

Fonts (selection)

  • Centralization and decentralization, at the same time a contribution to local politics within the framework of political and administrative theory. Springer, Berlin 1928.
  • German federalism. (= Time and disputes. H. 4). Bachem, Cologne 1947.
  • The Cologne Cathedral. 1248-1948. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1948 (photos by KH Schmölz).

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  1. ↑ data according to tombstone
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peters, Hans Carl Maria Alfons (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, constitutional lawyer and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1966
Place of death Cologne