Heinrich Amadeus Wolff

Heinrich Amadeus Wolff (born June 25, 1965 in Heidelberg ) is a German legal scholar .

Career

Wolff is the son of the legal scholar Ernst Amadeus Wolff . After graduating from the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt in 1985 , Wolff studied law at the universities of Regensburg , Tübingen , Bonn , Freiburg and Heidelberg from 1985 to 1990 . From 1990 to 1993 he worked as an assistant or research assistant in a shared position at Eberhard Schmidt-Aßmann in Heidelberg. He passed his state exams in Heidelberg in 1991 and in Stuttgart in 1994 .

From 1994 he worked as a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court with Judge Paul Kirchhof , and from 1994 to 1999 he was a research assistant or assistant to Helmut Quaritsch at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . 1996 doctorate he there also to Dr. rer. publ. (Doctor of Administrative Sciences ). He then worked as a lecturer at the DHV Speyer from 1996 to 1998. In 1998 his habilitation in the subjects of Heads of State and Administrative Law , also at Speyer. From 1998 to 2000 Wolff worked in the Federal Ministry of the Interior . After a teaching position at the University of Potsdam in the winter semester of 1998/99, he was university professor (C3) at the LMU Munich from 2000 to 2006 . From the winter semester 2006/07 to the winter semester 2013/14 he held the chair for public law , in particular constitutional law and constitutional history (W 3) at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) . Since the summer semester 2014 he has held the chair for public law, environmental law, technology and information at the University of Bayreuth .

Research interests

According to his own presentation, his research interests cover the entire breadth of public law, including international and supranational interdependencies. An essential general characteristic of his research is the endeavor to

• maintaining the unity of the legal system,
• the emphasis on legal dogmatics as a condition of the freedom mandate of the law,
• the separation of legal from legal political arguments,
• the connection between theory and practice and
• the emphasis on the law as a benchmark for independent action.

Thematically, the focus is on the areas of federal and state constitutional law, general administrative law and administrative procedural law, planning, environmental and technology law, security law and public service law.

Wolff has numerous publications in the aforementioned areas and is also active as an expert and litigator for the federal government, the federal states and interest groups.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Amadeus Wolff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Heinrich Amadeus Wolff at the University of Bayreuth