Karl Bönninger

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Karl Bönninger (born April 6, 1925 in Dortmund ; † August 5, 2000 in Ahrensfelde ) was a German legal scholar in the field of public law . He taught at the University of Leipzig .

Life

After serving in the Second World War, Bönninger began studying law in Bonn . He went to Leipzig in 1946 and became a member of the KPD / SED in the same year . After a lectureship at the German Administration Academy in Forst-Zinna, he received a teaching position for public law at the University of Leipzig in 1951 , which he held until 1953. It was in this year by the Humboldt University of Berlin to the doctor of law doctorate . His dissertation is entitled The establishment of house and street shop stewards as a form of participation of the masses in the management of the state in the GDR . After completing his doctorate, he worked as a private lecturer at the university . In 1956 he was finally appointed professor .

In the period from 1957 to 1962 Bönninger was on leave from the university. During this time he initially acted from September 1957 as the successor to Franz Wohlgemuth as Deputy State Secretary for higher education and technical schools in the GDR . After a criticism by Walter Ulbricht in early April 1958 at a political and legal conference because of his “revisionist theories”, he was relegated to the administration in June 1958. He then became an employee of the council of the district of Leipzig , secretary of the council of the Leipzig district and the council of the city of Schkeuditz . From 1962 he continued his work at the university.

Bönninger completed his habilitation in 1964 at Leipzig University for public law. In 1973 the university appointed him Dr. sc. jur. for administrative law . He held the professorship until his retirement in 1990.

In 2000 Bönninger died at the age of 75. His grave is on the Ahrensfelde village cemetery.

Works

  • The Sovereignty of the German Democratic Republic and the German State Question (East Berlin 1955)
  • Administrative Law of the German Democratic Republic (East Berlin 1957)
  • with others: The right to education and compulsory schooling (Leipzig 1976)
  • The Law of Public Roads (Leipzig 1978)
  • Edition: Rights and duties of students (Leipzig 1981)

literature

  • Horst Neuper: University in Socialism: Studies on the History of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1945–1990) , 2007, p. 1903. Online
  • Martin Otto: From the own church to the state-owned enterprise: Erwin Jacobi (1884-1965) , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-149502-1 , p. 366. Online
  • Michael Stolleis : Socialist legality: Constitutional and administrative law studies in the GDR , Verlag CHBeck, Munich 2009, ISBN 9783406592072 , p. 116. Online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lecture by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED Walter Ulbricht . In: Neues Deutschland , April 6, 1958, p. 5.
  2. ↑ DY 30 / J IV 2/3/604 - Minutes No. 18/58 of the meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED on June 18, 1958.
personal data
SURNAME Bönninger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 2000
Place of death Ahrensfelde