Herbert Bethge

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Herbert Bethge (born June 8, 1939 in Saxony-Anhalt ) is a German constitutional law teacher and professor emeritus at the University of Passau .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1958, Bethge fled to West Berlin. There he studied law at the Free University of Berlin until 1964. He completed his legal clerkship at the Supreme Court , where he worked as a guest at the OLG districts of Cologne and Düsseldorf. In 1968 he received his doctorate and in 1976 his habilitation at the University of Cologne . In 1977 Bethge was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor. In the 1978 summer semester he took over a chair at the young University of Passau, where he and his colleagues built up the law faculty. 1980 to 1981 and 1998 to 2000 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law. He retired in 2007 as holder of the chair for constitutional and administrative law as well as commercial administrative law and media law.

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 .

Research priorities

  • Constitutional law, in particular fundamental rights and constitutional jurisdiction
  • Media law
  • Judicial procedural law with an emphasis on administrative jurisdiction
  • State liability law

Fonts (selection)

  • Herbert Bethge, The constitutional status of the Bavarian State Center for New Media (BLM) . 2nd Edition. Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-7010-9

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .