Institute for Theory of State and Law

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The Institute for Theory of State and Law (ITSR) was a non-university research institute in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) with headquarters in Berlin-Mitte , which as an academy institute belonged to the research community of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

The institute was founded on October 31, 1972, with Wolfgang Weichelt as director . The ITSR had around 85 employees, including around 65 scientists who were particularly involved in basic research in law . The political-ideological basis of the work was the results of the Babelsberg Conference of 1958, which determined the Marxist-Leninist theory of state and law in the GDR. From 1975 the institute held a series of symposia on legal theory with international participation.

Structurally, the institute was divided into areas for "State and Constitutional Theory", "Legal Theory", "Analysis and Critique of the Civil State and Law and the Civil State and Legal Ideology", "State and Legal Theory Issues of Economic Management" and "International Law" . From 1983 to 1991, Bernhard Graefrath , a lawyer who was one of the leading legal scholars in this area of ​​law in the GDR, was the head of international law .

At the time of the political change in the GDR, the name was changed to "Institute for Law" at the end of 1989. Karl-Heinz Röder , previously deputy director and temporarily acting director, was elected director in March 1990 . In the same year the institute was evaluated and the result was dissolved at the end of 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rosemarie Will: The law faculty in the GDR. In: Stefan Grundmann, Michael Kloepfer, Christoph G. Paulus, Rainer Schröder, Gerhard Werle (Eds.): Festschrift 200 Years of the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Past, present and future. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-89949-629-1 , pp. 797-848
  2. ↑ a b Institute for Theory of State and Law (ITSR) Berlin-Mitte. In: Werner Scheler: From the German Academy of Sciences to Berlin to the Academy of Sciences of the GDR: Outline of the genesis and transformation of the academy. K. Dietz, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-32-001991-0 , p. 446
  3. ^ Institute for Law (IfR), Berlin. In: Heinrich Best (Hrsg.): Social sciences in the GDR and in the new federal states: A Vademecum. Information Center for Social Sciences, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-82-060083-3 , p. 272
  4. ↑ Uwe-Jens Heuer: The legal system of the GDR: claim and reality. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1995, ISBN 3-78-903631-5 , p. 558
  5. ^ Jürgen Kocka, Renate Mayntz: Science and reunification: Disciplines in transition. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-05-003270-7 , p. 199 (footnote 40)
  6. ^ Jan Wielgohs:  Graefrath, Bernhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 , p. 318.
  7. ^ A b Karl A. Mollnau, Heinz Mohnhaupt: German Democratic Republic 1958–1989. Volume 5 of the series: Enforcement of Norms in Eastern European Post-War Societies (1944–1989): Introduction to Legal Development with Source Documentation. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-46-503300-0 , pp. XXXVII − XXXIX