Helmut Goerlich
Helmut Goerlich (born July 27, 1943 in Tübingen ) is a German lawyer .
Life
Goerlich studied law, philosophy and history at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg . Before completing his doctorate, he was a fellow and visiting scholar at what is now Wolfson College , Cambridge University, England. In 1972 he was at the University of Hamburg with the investigation "of values and fundamental law" Dr. iur. PhD. He was then a John F. Kennedy Fellow at the School of Government at Harvard University , Cambridge, Mass., And later a repeated visiting scholar at the law school there. In 1981 Goerlich completed his habilitation at the University of Hanover on the subject of "Basic rights as procedural guarantees" . He then worked as a judge in the Hamburg administrative courts.
In 1991 Goerlich accepted a professorship for public law at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . From there he moved to the University of Leipzig in 1992 , where he held the chair for constitutional and administrative law, constitutional history and church law until his retirement in 2008. His successor on this chair is Jochen Rozek . During his time at the University of Leipzig, Goerlich was dean of the law faculty there several times . In September 2017, the İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi awarded him an honorary doctorate (Dr. iur. Hc) at the request of its law faculty.
Goerlich was managing director of the Institute for Broadcasting Law, member of the board of the Institute for Fundamentals of Law and member of the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Leipzig, Chairman of the Central German Association for Media Law eV, Leipzig, and Deputy Chairman of the Institute for Administration and Administrative law in the new federal states eV, Leipzig.
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 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Helmut Goerlich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Internet presence of the Chair for Constitutional and Administrative Law, Constitutional History and State Church Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Leipzig
Individual evidence
- ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goerlich, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |