Ludwig Joseph Gerstner

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Ludwig Joseph Gerstner (born October 10, 1830 in Abenberg Castle in Middle Franconia , † March 20, 1883 in Würzburg ) was a professor of state economics and a politician .

Gerstner studied in Erlangen from 1849 and received his doctorate in Tübingen as a doctor of political science. In 1857 he completed his habilitation again in Erlangen. From 1862 he was Professor of State Economics in Würzburg . Gerstner tried to develop an organic-Christian general doctrine of the state in his basic doctrine of state administration . He saw the state as “unity and totality” and “an organic being willed by God, who appears on a certain territory in a majority of people according to the laws of nature and freedom in constant power and personality and who physically has the material and spiritual-moral improvement of his relatives under the guidance of a supreme government will according to certain norms ”. Despite the similarity of such considerations to the doctrines of natural law from the 18th century, he was at the height of his time if, like Robert von Mohl , he assumed the separation of state and society and an interaction between the constitution and the administration . His attempt to develop a state administration theory as the epitome of all "administrative doctrines of the material area" was in turn influenced by Lorenz von Stein's administration theory.

From 1869 he was a member of the state parliament and from 1871 to 1874 a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Lower Franconia 6 (Würzburg) as a member of the Progress Party .

Works

  • The basic tenets of the state administration I. Würzburg 1862
  • The Bavarian Income Tax and Capital Rent Tax Act of May 31, 1856. 1858
  • Contribution to the doctrine of capital. 1857

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The basic tenets of the state administration I. Würzburg 1862, p. 53
  2. ^ Michael Stolleis : History of Public Law in Germany. Volume 2, pp. 429, 430.
  3. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 213.

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personal data
SURNAME Gerstner, Ludwig Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Professor of State Economy and Politicians (DFP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Abenberg Castle , Middle Franconia
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1883
Place of death Wurzburg