Johann-Albrecht Haupt

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Johann-Albrecht Haupt (born July 24, 1943 in Schwerin ) is a German legal scholar and secular humanist . His work focuses on the implementation of the constitutional mandate to separate state and religion , above all the termination of state services to the churches.

Life

Johann-Albrecht Haupt was born in the middle of World War II as the son of the pharmacist Wolfgang Haupt (born March 16, 1908 in Elbing ; † April 8, 1945 in Russia ) and Elisabeth Haupt, née Elisabeth von Koppelow (born April 30, 1919 in Schwerin ; † 2004 in Oyten ).

In the post-war period , the widowed mother fled with Haupt and his two sisters from the GDR to Herford in Westphalia in 1952 . There Johann-Albrecht Haupt attended the Friedrichs-Gymnasium from 1953 to 1962 . After graduating from high school, he first studied German and philosophy in Freiburg im Breisgau at the Albert-Ludwigs University and in West Berlin from 1962 to 1965, and then law at the University of Göttingen from 1965 to 1970 . After his internship from 1970 to 1972, he passed the second state examination in Hanover .

As a civil servant of the state of Lower Saxony, Haupt worked from 1973, initially in the Hanover district government , then from 1990 until his retirement in 2008 in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education .

From 2007 to 2013 Haupt was a board member of the Humanist Union (HU) and since 2014 advisory board of the HU. In 2017 he was a founding advisory board member of the Institute for Weltanschauungsrecht , to which he has been a member since then. He regularly appears in public on the constitutional mandate to separate state and religion and the termination of state services to the churches.

Johann-Albrecht Haupt is married and has two sons.

Positions

Church privileges

Johann-Albrecht Haupt has presented a comprehensive documentation of the church privileges. It counts nine main privileges in the fields of corporation under public law (Kdö.R.), taxation law, religious instruction, theological faculties, state services, institutional and military pastoral care, state church contracts, labor law, tax and fee exemptions and 38 other privileges from the oath of office and atoms to waste materials for outdoor events and means of coercion.

State services

Since 2011 he has published the amount of state payments to the Protestant and Catholic Church for the Humanist Union based on research into the budget plans of the federal states . Accordingly, the churches have received almost 20 billion euros from the state since 1949 (as of 2020). The annual publication of the figures is received by the media nationwide.

In a statement for the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag on the proposal by the FDP parliamentary group to “evaluate church state contracts” in 2014, he rated the proposal to set up an independent commission for state services as “appropriate and desirable”. The Commission, however, was not set up.

In the run-up to the 100th anniversary of the non-implementation of the constitutional mandate to replace state services, he evaluated the positions of the parties represented in the Bundestag for the Institute for Weltanschauungsrecht. Regarding the task of politics and the factual situation of the church claims, he said:

“Until 1919, the churches acquired real estate and assets in many cases due to circumstances that are questionable from the point of view of the rule of law. As part of the scientific analysis of the amount of the transfer fee, the churches should be asked to comment on the ethical justification with which, after centuries, they still demand compensation from the taxpayer for the loss of wealth. In the end, it is up to the legislature to determine whether and how much is still to be compensated today. "

As spokesman, he represents the civil society alliance founded in 2018 to abolish state services under old law (Ba§ta).

He criticized the draft for a fundamental law to replace state services presented by the opposition factions FDP , Left Party and Greens on March 13, 2020, and rejected, among other things, the payment of an additional 10.6 billion euros to the churches as "arbitrary".

State treaties with religious communities

In the debate in the state of Lower Saxony about the expansion of state contracts with churches to include Islamic associations (including Islamic religious instruction, building mosques, religious holidays), he spoke out against such agreements in the taz in 2015 . In Germany people would have the right to freely choose and practice their religion "within the limits of the law that applies to everyone", and religious communities could organize themselves freely. There is no need for fundamental contracts between the state and the religious communities. Establishing the existing legal situation is unnecessary. As far as changes in the law are envisaged, the legislature must take action anyway. The reference to equal treatment with the numerous state treaties concluded with the Christian churches is justified, but the treaties with the churches are to be terminated and not transferred to Islamic associations. It is also critical that a contractual partner like DITIB “is certainly not a religious community in the sense of German constitutional law”.

euthanasia

In 2014 he was involved in “10 principles for self-determination until the end of life” of a civil society alliance and opposed Section 217 of the German Criminal Code, which was introduced in 2015 and declared unconstitutional and null and void in 2020 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Johann-Albrecht Haupt: User: Johann-Albrecht Haupt , self-disclosure on the own user page in the German-language Wikipedia in the version of June 11, 2020, 11:49 a.m.
  2. ^ Johann-Albrecht Haupt | ifw - Institute for Weltanschauungsrecht. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  3. ^ Johann-Albrecht Haupt: The Privileges of the Churches: Laws and Constitutions - A Documentation . In: Helmut Ortner (Ed.): EXIT: Why we need less religion . Nomen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-939816-62-1 , p. 321-345 .
  4. ↑ Ingolf Bossenz: The state and its churches (New Germany). Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  5. ^ Johann-Albrecht Haupt: State services of the states to the churches. (PDF; 149 kB) Humanist Union, 2020, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Michael Ashelm, Klaus Max Smolka: Extra on church tax: Churches have received almost 20 billion euros from the state since 1949 . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 8, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Michael B. Berger: Churches make strong cash. Hannoversche Allgemeine, June 8, 2018, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  8. ^ Matthias Bertsch and Christoph Fleischmann: State services to the churches - Difficult replacement. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, May 3, 2020, accessed on June 8, 2020 (German).
  9. ↑ Johann-Albrecht Haupt: Opinion for the Interior and Legal Committee of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament on the proposal of the FDP parliamentary group "Evaluating Papal State Contracts - Fulfilling the Basic Law's Mission" (Drs. 18/1258). (PDF; 569 kB) 2014, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Replace state payments to the churches by 2019. Institute for Weltanschauungsrecht, January 23, 2018, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
  11. ↑ State Services FAQ - Basta. Accessed June 8, 2020 (German).
  12. ↑ Marie Wildermann: Religion in the Weimar Imperial Constitution - The State Church is abolished. Deutschlandfunk, 2019, accessed on June 8, 2020 (German).
  13. ↑ Matthias Drobinski: The Eternal Indulgence. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Emine Oguz: Lower Saxony wants to strengthen integration: State treaty for Muslims? In: The daily newspaper: taz . December 14, 2015, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 8, 2020]).
  15. ^ Matthias Kamann: Euthanasia: Ten-point paper against new suicide criminal law . In: THE WORLD . March 13, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed June 8, 2020]).
  16. ↑ "Help for self-determined death must remain unpunished". German Society for Human Dying (DGHS) eV, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Haupt, Johann-Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and secular humanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin