Hartmut Maurer

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Hartmut Maurer (born March 6, 1931 in Stuttgart ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

Maurer was born the son of a pastor and studied law at the universities of Tübingen and Göttingen . He passed his state exams in Tübingen in 1954 and in Stuttgart in 1959. At the University of Göttingen he received his doctorate in 1957 under Werner Weber on the administrative jurisdiction of the Protestant church . After working as a research assistant to Günter Dürig at the University of Tübingen, he received his habilitation in 1964 .

After acting as professor at the Universities of Saarbrücken , the Free University of Berlin , Lausanne , Göttingen and Marburg , he became a full professor for public law at the University of Marburg in 1969 ; In 1978 he was appointed to the chair for constitutional law , administrative law and church law at the University of Konstanz . Maurer retired on April 1, 1999 .

In September 2019 he was one of about 100 constitutional law teachers who, with the open appeal for the right to vote, Downsized the Bundestag! turned to the German Bundestag .

Scientific work

His research interests lie in the areas of political theory , state organization law , basic rights , constitutional jurisdiction , general administrative law , state liability law , local law , the constitutional history of the modern era and church and state church law .

His best-known work is the textbook “General Administrative Law”, which is available in its 19th edition (2017) and the first edition was published in 1980. It is regarded as a standard work for general administrative law and serves both as a teaching and reference work in studies and practice. The work is characterized by the fact that, on the one hand, it is real research literature and, on the other hand, it is a didactically cleverly prepared textbook. In terms of its importance for administrative law , it is to be regarded as equivalent to Ernst Forsthoff's old work . With its widespread use, it has not only influenced German administrative law, but also, through translations into several languages, the legal development in France, China, Taiwan, Estonia, Poland, Brazil and Korea. The work is characterized by unpretentious, catchy language and the elaboration of the essential structures from the enormous wealth of material. With his textbook on state organization law "Staatsrecht I", which was published later, Maurer has presented another basic volume, which was published in 2017 in the 7th edition. With his history-oriented approach, he makes the matter understandable even for legal laypeople. With these two works, Hartmut Maurer has long been the first to publish an important work on both general administrative and constitutional law in public law .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .
  2. ↑ Review by Ronald Moosburner for the 15th edition on Jurawelt.com ( Memento from April 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b Peter Häberle: Hartmut Maurer on his 70th birthday. In: New legal weekly . 2001, p. 736.

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personal data
SURNAME Mason, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart