Klaus Schlaich

Klaus Schlaich (born May 1, 1937 in Stetten / Remstal ; † October 23, 2005 in Sankt Augustin ) was a German legal scholar .

Schlaich was born as the son of the Protestant pastor Ludwig Schlaich , who ran the Diakonie -Anstalten in Stetten , and the younger brother of Jörg Schlaich . He attended the humanistic grammar school in Stuttgart , completed a Studium generale at the Leibniz Kolleg in Tübingen , where he then studied law at the local university and passed both state law exams. The doctorate followed in 1967, the habilitation in 1971 , both supervised by Martin Heckel . As early as 1972 Schlaich received a chair for public law and canon law at the University of Bonn . He taught there, impaired by serious illnesses from 1987, until his early retirement in 1997.

Fonts (selection)

• Collected Essays. Church and State from the Reformation to the Basic Law . Mohr, Tübingen 1997.
• The Supreme Court. Position, procedure, decisions. A study book . CH Beck, 4th edition 1997 (last edition for which Schlaich was solely responsible, continuation of the work by Stefan Korioth ).

literature

• Werner Heun : Klaus Schlaich (1937-2005). In: Journal for Protestant Church Law 51 (2005), p. 1 f.
• In memoriam Klaus Schlaich (May 1, 1937– October 23, 2005). Speeches held at the academic commemoration on April 21, 2007 in the ballroom of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Bouvier, Bonn 2007.
• Stefan Korioth: Klaus Schlaich (1937-2005) . In: Peter Häberle , Michael Kilian , Heinrich Wolff : Constitutional law teacher of the 20th century. Germany, Austria, Switzerland . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, pp. 1045-1056. ISBN 978-3-11-030377-3 .