Hugo J. Hahn

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Hugo Joseph Hahn (born January 15, 1927 in Dieburg ; † March 26, 2010 ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Hahn studied law from 1946 to 1950 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and was then a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg . In 1950 he graduated from the first jur. State examination. In 1951 he was one of the first German students after the end of the war at Harvard Law School (HLS) in Cambridge , Massachusetts and graduated with a Master of Laws (LL.M.) with honors. After a stay in Paris , he was in 1953 at the University of Frankfurt for Dr. iur. utr. PhD.

During his legal traineeship, Hahn was also legal counsel for the German-American trade association in Frankfurt am Main. In 1956 he passed the second state examination in law and became personal assistant to Franz Josef Strauss in the Federal Ministry for Atomic Energy . From 1956 to 1958 he was a member of the German delegation in the negotiations on the establishment of the EEC and Euratom . In 1958 Hahn switched to the OEEC in Paris as a consultant, where he was legal advisor from 1963 to 1968 in the successor organization OECD .

In 1965 Hahn completed his habilitation at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 1968 he was visiting professor at the University of Paris. In 1969 he was one of the founding members of the Law Faculty of the Johannes Kepler University Linz . In 1974 he received a reputation as a full professor at the University of Würzburg and was Executive Director at the Institute of International Law , European Law and International Business Law . From 1983 to 1985 he was dean of the law faculty at the University of Würzburg. He founded the Würzburg "Exchange Speech" and the "Würzburg University Speeches", which brought together experts from monetary, banking and currency law. In 1995 he retired .

Hugo J. Hahn became involved in numerous national and international bodies such as the International Law Association (ILA) , the Committee on monetary law he presided (Monetary Committee) 1973-1995. From 1977 to 1980 he was the representative of the Federal Republic of Germany before the arbitral tribunal for the agreement on German foreign debts in the Young bond process .

Hahn published numerous papers on German and foreign public law, international law and, in particular, German, European and international currency law. He supervised four habilitation theses and over fifty dissertations.

Hahn came from a politically active Catholic family; In 1945/1946 he was one of the co-founders of the Hessian CDU and since 1947 a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Hasso-Nassovia Frankfurt am Main in the CV . In 1969 he became a member of the KaV Austro-Danubia in the ÖCV and in 1978 a member of the KDStV Markomannia Würzburg in the CV. His son Michael Hahn is a professor of European law at the University of Lausanne.

honors and awards

Fonts

  • Prerequisites and scope of the acquisition of rights according to Art. 21 III Unification Treaty and its relationship to Art. 134 and 135 GG (series of publications by the Federal Ministry of Finance, volume 50), Bonn 1993
  • The monetary system in European integration. Würzburg University Speeches 1993–1995. Public events of the seminar for currency law and foreign trade law (= writings on monetary economy , 39). Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4203-X .
  • The European currency , Nomos 1999, ISBN 3789060623
  • Administrative law. 18 cases and solutions , Kohlhammer 2002, ISBN 317011865X , together with Ulrich Häde
  • Currency law , Beck Juristischer Verlag (2nd edition) 2010, ISBN 3406585256 , together with Ulrich Häde

literature

  • Ludwig Gramlich , Albrecht Weber , Franz Zehetner : On the way to European Monetary Union: Symposium on the 65th birthday of Professor Dr. jur. Dr. hc Hugo J. Hahn , Nomos 1992, ISBN 3789027375
  • Albrecht Weber (Ed.): Currency and Economy. The money in the right. Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Hugo J. Hahn on his 70th birthday , Nomos 1997, ISBN 3-7890-4399-0 .
  • Ludwig Gramlich, Ulrich Häde, Albrecht Weber, Franz Zehetner: Legal exchange speeches : Festgabe for Hugo J. Hahn on the 80th birthday , GUC 2007, ISBN 3934235514

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personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Hugo J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn, Hugo Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH The castle
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2010