Heinrich Ahrens

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Heinrich Ahrens (born July 14, 1808 in Kniestedt (now part of Salzgitter ), † August 2, 1874 in Salzgitter) was a German legal philosopher and main representative of the legal philosophical direction named after him.

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Ahrens was the son of the estate manager Karl Heinrich Ahrens and his wife Lucie Christiane Huth. Ahrens spent his school days in his hometown and then began to study at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he joined the local fraternity in 1828 .

One of his teachers, the philosopher Karl Christian Friedrich Krause , became his great role model. Ahrens completed his habilitation in 1830 with his habilitation “De confoederatione germanica”. Because of the political explosiveness of this work, Ahrens could not hope for any public employment; the Bundestag saw Ahrens as a "seducer".

Since Ahrens, together with his colleagues, the lawyers Johann Ernst Arminius von Rauschenplatt and Carl Wilhelm Theodor Schuster, triggered the Göttingen Revolution in January 1831 , the warning seemed almost prophetic. Since he was wanted on a wanted list, Ahrens fled with Rauschenplatt to Brussels and later to Paris . There he earned his living from 1833 with lectures and lectures on the German philosophy since Kant . A year later he accepted a position as associate professor for philosophy at the University of Brussels.

In the course of the political events of the March Revolution , Ahrens was able to return to Germany in 1848. From the ninth Hanover constituency in Holle he was elected as a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly. There he was a member of the Westendhall parliamentary group . In addition, he worked on the committee for the drafting of the Reich constitution and the Greater German constitutional committee .

Two years later, Ahrens went to the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz as professor of philosophical law and political science . In 1859 he took over a professorship for practical philosophy and politics at the University of Leipzig . As a representative of the Leipzig University he was a member of the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament in 1863/64 .

Around 1873 Prof. Ahrens resigned from all his offices and retired into private life. He settled again in Salzgitter and died there at the age of 66 on August 2, 1874.

On the basis of the theses of his teacher Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, Ahrens tried to develop an independent natural law , which he tried to contrast with the rational law of the Enlightenment . Ahrens was denied a lasting effect of his work, although he was already well known in France, Spain and some countries in South America during his lifetime.

Works (selection)

  • Course de droit naturel . Paris 1839
  • Organic state theory on a philosophical-anthropological basis (Vienna 1850, his unfinished major work).
  • Fichte's political teaching in its scientific, cultural-historical and general national significance: Speech for the Fichtefeier at the University of Leipzig. Veit, Leipzig 1862 urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-75330 .
  • Natural law or the philosophy of law according to the current state of this science in Germany. 6th edition Vienna 1870–1871 (2 volumes.)
  • Legal encyclopedia. Vienna 1855–1857 (an organic representation of law and political science).
  • De confoederatione Germanicae. Göttingen 1830 (habilitation).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Selle : Opposition fraternity members in the state of Braunschweig. Wolfenbüttel 1999, p. 26 ( burschenschaftsgeschichte.de PDF).
  2. ↑ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952. Saxon State Parliament 2001, p. 37.

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personal data
SURNAME Ahrens, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Kniestedt
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1874
Place of death Salzgitter