Heinhard Steiger

Heinhard Steiger (born June 11, 1933 in Ratibor ; † July 28, 2019 ) was a German legal scholar . From 1971 to 2001 he held the chair for public law , law of international organizations, international law , European law , environmental law and history of international law at the University of Giessen .

Life

Heinhard Steiger was born in Ratibor in 1933. From 1953 to 1957 he studied in Freiburg im Breisgau , Paris and Münster . This was followed by a master’s degree at Harvard University in 1958/59 . He then received his doctorate in Münster in 1963 with the text Statehood and Supranationalism . This was followed in 1970 by his habilitation, also in Münster with Hans Ulrich Scupin, on the organizational basis of the parliamentary system of government . In 1971 he worked as a lecturer and from 1972 as a scientific adviser.

In 1975, Steiger was appointed full professor at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen to the chair for public law, law of international organizations, international law, European law, environmental law and the history of international law, which he held until his retirement in 2001. Steiger was visiting professor at the Universities of Toulouse and Limoges .

Fonts (selection)

• Statehood and supranationalism. An investigation into the legal and political position of the European communities. Duncker et al. Humblot, Berlin 1966 (also: dissertation).
• Organizational foundations of the parliamentary system of government. An investigation into the legal position of the German Bundestag. Duncker et al. Humblot, Berlin 1973 (also: Münster, University, habilitation thesis).
• Human and environment. On the question of the introduction of a fundamental environmental right. Schmidt, Berlin 1975.
• European Parliament's environmental competence. Schmidt, Berlin 1977.
• together with Otto Kimminich : Environmental protection law and administration in the Federal Republic of Germany Luxembourg / London 1976.
• From a society of states to a world republic? Forty years of essays on the history of international law. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009.
• The order of the world. A history of international law in the Carolingian era (741 to 840) , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20418-1 .
• Universality and particularity of international law from a historical perspective. Essays on the history of international law 2008-2015. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinhard Steiger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinhard Steiger's website at the University of Giessen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice Heinhard Steiger , FAZ , July 31, 2019