Helmut Quaritsch

Helmut Quaritsch (born April 20, 1930 in Hamburg , † August 19, 2011 in Speyer ) was a German legal scholar and former ministerial director . D.

Career

Quaritsch was promoted to Dr. jur. did his doctorate and habilitation in 1965 at the University of Hamburg under Hans Peter Ipsen with the thesis State and Sovereignty for public law and canon law .

In 1966 he became full professor of public law at the Ruhr University in Bochum , then in 1968 at the Free University of Berlin and in 1972 finally at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . From 1981 to 1983 he was the rector of the German University of Administrative Sciences. From 1970 to 1973 Quaritsch was, in addition to his work in Speyer, Director of the Scientific Services of the Bundestag .

Quaritsch's main research areas were immigration , asylum and citizenship law , public service law, state and sovereignty theories of modern times (especially with Jean Bodin and Carl Schmitt ) as well as constitutional and historical studies of the amnesty problem.

Helmut Quaritsch was co-editor of the journal Der Staat and from 1977 to 1981 chairman of the Association for Constitutional History .

The parliamentary law without parliament. Rank and validity of the legal principles in the democratic state, examined in the Hamburg planning law. , 2nd edition Hamburg 1961.
State and sovereignty. Volume 1: The Basics . 1st edition Athenaeum, Frankfurt / M. 1970, 2nd edition Ludwigsfelder Verlagshaus, Ludwigsfelde 2019, ISBN 978-3-933022-96-7 .
Positions and terms of Carl Schmitt , 3rd edition, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-428-08257-5 .
(as editor): Complexio Oppositorum. About Carl Schmitt , lectures and contributions to the discussion at the 28th special seminar 1986 at the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-428-06378-3 .
Sovereignty. Origin and development of the term in France and Germany from the 13th century to 1806 , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1986, ISBN 978-3-428-06118-1 .

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde / Andreas Voßkuhle : In Memoriam Helmut Quaritsch. In: Der Staat 50 (2011), p. 491 f.
Hans-Christof Kraus , Heinrich Amadeus Wolff (ed.): Sovereignty problems of the modern age. Gift of friend for Helmut Quaritsch on the occasion of his 80th birthday (= scientific treatises and speeches on philosophy, politics and intellectual history , vol. 58), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-13316-1 .
Heinrich Amadeus Wolff : On the death of the constitutional law teacher Helmuth Quaritsch. In: Archives of Public Law 137 (2012), pp. 142–145.
Hans-Christof Kraus: Helmut Quaritsch (1930-2011). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History - German Department 131 (2014), pp. 749–807.
Bernd Grzeszick : Helmut Quaritsch (1930–2011). In: Peter Häberle , Michael Kilian , Heinrich Wolff : Constitutional law teacher of the 20th century. Germany, Austria, Switzerland . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston (2nd edition) 2018, pp. 1167–1177, ISBN 978-3-11-054145-8 .