Jost Delbrück

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Jost Wilhelm Ernst Delbrück (born November 3, 1935 in Pyritz , Pomerania) is a German international lawyer and was President and Rector of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel from 1985 to 1989 .

Family, life and work

Jost Delbrück belongs to the Delbrück family in Lower Saxony, originally from Alfeld an der Leine , who held several influential positions in Prussia and the German Empire in the 19th century .

Delbrück studied law and political science at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington and at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , where in 1963 he conducted the study "The development of the relationship between the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations " for Dr. iur. PhD. From 1963 to 1971 he was a lecturer at the University of Kiel, then completed his habilitation on the subject of "The racial question as a problem of international law and national legal systems" and worked from 1971 to 1972 as a substitute professor at the University of Hamburg . In the 1972 summer semester he was appointed Professor of Political Science and General Political Science as the successor to Gerhard Leibholz at the University of Göttingen, but returned to the University of Kiel in the 1976 winter semester, where he was appointed professor of international law, constitutional law and general political science at the Faculty of Law .

From 1976 to 2001, Delbrück was director of the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel in addition to his teaching activities . From 1978 he also worked as a judge at the joint higher administrative court of the states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein in Lüneburg until it was split into two independent higher administrative courts in 1991. From 1985 to 1989 Delbrück was first president and then rector of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. From 1991 he also gave regular lectures at his old alma mater, the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington.

In 2001 Delbrück retired.

Honorary positions

Delbrück has been a member of the Permanent International Court of Arbitration in The Hague since 1988 . From 1997 to 2001 he was President of the German Society for International Law. Delbrück was u. a. Delegate of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UN Human Rights Committee and is a member of the funding commission of the German Society for Peace and Conflict Research . He was also a member of the Board of Trustees Indivisible Germany .

Honors

On May 27, 2002 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities, Social and Educational Sciences at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg , and in 2006 the Kiel Seal of Honor .

Works

Delbrück's early work before the end of the East-West conflict includes research into the causes of war, work on ethical discourses in peace and global governance, as well as on the pan-European security system and international legal norms. After 1990 he devoted himself increasingly to shaping constitutional, European and international law through the onset of globalization. This research core is supplemented by analyzes of broadcasting and telecommunications law, immigration law and the law and politics of the United Nations in general. Independent writings:

  • "The Development of the Security Council's Powers and Voting Procedure Prior to San Francisco" , LL.M. Thesis, Bloomington / Indiana 1960.
  • “The development of the relationship between the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations” , Diss., Kiel 1964.
  • "German Ostpolitik and European Security System " , Sankelmark 1968.
  • "The race question as a problem of international law and national legal systems" , Habil., Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • "Human rights and fundamental freedoms in international law on the basis of selected texts, international treaties and conventions" , Stuttgart / Munich / Hanover 1972´.
  • "Direct satellite broadcasting and national regulatory reservation" , Frankfurt am Main 1982.
  • “The broadcasting sovereignty of the German federal states in the field of tension between the European Community's claim to regulation and national constitutional law” , Berlin / Frankfurt am Main 1987.
  • “UNESCO in the service of human rights protection: the special guarantees in the areas of education, science, culture and their implementation” (inaugural address as rector on May 30, 1985), Neumünster 1988; Printed in: J. Delbrück, The Constitution of Peace as Legal Order, edited by K. Dicke, S. Hobe, K.-U. Meyn, E. Riedel and H.-J. Schütz, Berlin 1996, pp. 32-43.
  • "On the difficulty of being German: Thoughts on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Reichskristallnacht" , Neumünster 1988.
  • “Responsibility for the State of the Basic Law: State Power - Party Power - Citizen Powerlessness?” , Kiel 1988.
  • “In the field of tension between science and politics - review of the term 1985–1989” , Neumünster 1989.
  • (Together with Rüdiger Wolfrum ): Völkerrecht , Volume I / 1, 2nd edition of the work founded by Georg Dahm, Berlin / New York 1989.
  • “The constitution of peace as a legal order. Understanding the legal and political conditions for securing peace in the present international system ” , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996.
  • “The image of the state in the age of commercial globalization” . In: C.Tietje / G. Kraft: "First Christian Thomasius Lecture on International Business Law" , Halle / Saale 2002.
  • (Together with Rüdiger Wolfrum): "Völkerrecht, Volume I / 2" , 2nd edition of the work founded by Georg Dahm, Berlin 2002.
  • (Together with Rüdiger Wolfrum): "Völkerrecht, Volume I / 3" , 2nd edition of the work founded by Georg Dahm, Berlin 2002.
  • "Non-governmental organizations: history - meaning - legal status" , Trier 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the University of Göttingen. Accessed April 24, 2020.
  2. ^ Press release of the University of Magdeburg from May 27, 2002
  3. ^ Press release of the University of Magdeburg from May 27, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Delbrück, Jost
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delbrück, Jost Wilhelm Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German international lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyritz , Pomerania