Kurt Wolzendorff

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kurt Wolzendorff (born April 12, 1882 in Nassau ; died March 21, 1921 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German constitutional lawyer.

Life

Kurt Wolzendorff attended the humanistic grammar school in Wiesbaden . He studied law in Lausanne , Munich and Marburg . After the first state examination in 1903, he received his doctorate in Marburg in 1905 with the dissertation on the extent of police violence in the police state . He was a judicial assessor at the Wiesbaden public prosecutor's office. In 1913 he completed his habilitation in Marburg, where he became a private lecturer for state, colonial, international and church law.

In 1917 he was appointed professor at the University of Königsberg , and in 1919 he succeeded Edgar Loening as full professor for public law at the University of Halle .

Wolzendorff was a participant in the German delegation in the peace negotiations in Versailles in 1919 . He died in 1921 after pneumonia.

Two of his writings on the concept of the state and the right of resistance were reprinted in the 1960s.

Fonts (selection)

From the German state , 1917
  • The idea of ​​the people's army in German constitutional law . Tübingen: Mohr, 1914
  • Constitutional law and natural law in the doctrine of the people's right to resist the illegal exercise of state authority. Breslau: Marcus, 1916, 2nd reprint, Aalen 1968
  • About the German state and its law. Highlights on general political theory . Leipzig: Veit, 1917
  • The police concept of the modern state. An attempt to general administrative theory with special consideration of the development in Prussia . Breslau: Marcus, 1918
  • The university in democracy . Frankfurt am Main: Societäts-Druckerei, 1919. Pamphlets of the Frankfurter Zeitung
  • The lie of international law: The war as a legal institution and the problem of the League of Nations in the system of ideas of international law . Leipzig: D. Neue Geist, 1919
  • German international law thinking . Mehn: Musarion, 1919
  • The Spirit of Constitutional Law: A Study of the Biology of Law and the Psychology of the People's State . Leipzig: New Spirit, 1920
  • The pure state . 1920
  • Basic idea of ​​the law of national minorities (natural law of minority protection) with an excursus on national cadastre . Berlin: Hans Rob. Engelmann, 1921

literature

  • Martin Otto: From the “Limits of Police Law” to the “Lie of International Law”. Kurt Wolzendorff (1882–1921) and natural law . In: Jens Eisfeld, Martin Otto, Louis Pahlow and Michael Zwanzger (eds.): Natural law and the state in modern times. Diethelm Klippel on his 70th birthday . Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013, ISBN 978-3-16-152462-2 , pp. 581–602
  • Martin Otto (Ed.): "My colleague Koellreutter is certainly not a genius." Letters from Kurt Wolzendorff to Carl Schmitt 1920/21 . In: Schmittiana. Contributions to the life and work of Carl Schmitt NF 2 (2014), ISSN  0945-9960 , pp. 53–86.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Wolzendorff, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German constitutional lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Nassau (Lahn)
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1921
Place of death Halle (Saale)