Karl Härter

Karl Härter (born December 18, 1956 in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse) is a German legal historian . He is head of a research group at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and an adjunct professor for modern and contemporary history at Faculty 2, Institute for History at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Life

Härter studied history , politics , sociology and law at the universities of Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main and passed the first and second state exams for teaching at grammar schools (subjects history and politics) in 1984 and 1986 respectively . From 1987 to 1990 he was a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Institute for European History in Mainz and received his doctorate in 1991 with Karl Otmar von Aretin at the Technical University of Darmstadt with a thesis on the Perpetual Reichstag in the age of the French Revolution. Since 1992 he has been a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main and since 2005 head of a research group. In 2002 he completed his habilitation for the subjects of modern and recent history at the TU Darmstadt, where he has taught as a private lecturer and since 2007 as an adjunct professor. From 2002 to 2004 he represented the Chair for Early Modern History (Professor Johannes Kunisch ) at the University of Cologne .

The main areas of work are the legal, political and constitutional history of modern times; The focus is on the history of criminal law and historical crime research, policey / police, legislation and administration of the pre-modern state as well as politics and the constitution of the old empire. Research projects deal with the history of security and political crime, transnational criminal law regimes, and church and Jewish legal history since the late Middle Ages. In addition, the history of South Hesse is of particular interest.

Harder is u. a. Member of the European Science Foundation College of Expert Reviewers, the Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt , the Association for Constitutional History , the International Advisory Board of the journal Contributions to the Legal History of Austria - BRGÖ and the Consiglio scientifico of the journal Quaderno di storia del penale e della giustizia . He also volunteers as chairman of the Heppenheim History Association and the UNESCO World Heritage Lorsch Monastery Foundation.

Fonts (selection)

• The history of criminal law and crime in the early modern period , De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-037979-2 .
• with Michael Stolleis (Ed.): Repertory of Police Regulations of the Early Modern Age , Vol. 1–11, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 1996-2017.
• with Tina Hannappel and Jean Conrad Tyrichter (eds.): The Transnationalization of Criminal Law in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. Political Crime, Police Cooperation, Security Regimes and Normative Orders. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2019
• with Angela De Benedictis (ed.) with the editorial assistance of Tina Hannappel and Thomas Walter: Revolts and political crimes between the 12th and 19th centuries. Legal reactions and legal-political discourses / Revolts and Political Crime from the 12th to the 19th Century. Legal Responses and Juridical-Political Discourses (= Studies on European Legal History , 285), Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2013.
• with Beatrice de Graaf (eds.) in collaboration with Gerhard Sälters and Eva Wiebel: From Majesty Crimes to Terrorism: Political Crime, Law, Justice and Police between the Early Modern Era and the 20th Century (= Studies on Studies in European Legal History , 268), Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2012.
• with Cecilia Nubola (Ed.): Grazia e giustizia. Figure della clemenza fra tardo medioevo ed età contemporanea , Bologna: il Mulino 2011.
• Policey and criminal justice in Kurmainz. Legislation, norm enforcement and social control in the early modern territorial state (= studies on European legal history , 190), Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2005.
• Reichstag and Revolution 1789–1806. The discussion of the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg with the effects of the French Revolution on the Old Reich (= series of publications by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , 46), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1992.

Web links

• [1] on the website of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History