Max Imboden

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Max Imboden (born June 19, 1915 in St. Gallen ; † April 7, 1969 in Basel ) was a Swiss lawyer .

Life

Imboden was born the son of a psychiatrist and a pediatrician in St. Gallen . After studying law in Geneva , Bern and Zurich and completing his dissertation with Zaccaria Giacometti , Federal law breaks cantonal law , he was an auditor from 1940 to 1943 , then a trainee at the Horgen District Court . In 1942 he passed the bar exam in the canton of Zurich , before he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich in 1944 : The void state act . His career included a wide variety of stations: from 1946 to 1953 he was legal advisor to the city of Zurich, in 1949 he was appointed part-time associate professor for tax law and cantonal administrative law at the University of Zurich, from 1953 he was full professor for public law at the University of Basel , and in 1959 guest lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and 1963/1964 rector of the University of Basel.

As a pioneer in science policy , Imboden was the first President of the newly created Swiss Science Council from 1965 onwards . His writing, Swiss Administrative Jurisprudence , which was later continued by René Rhinow , was long considered a standard work . He was also the author of numerous reports for the federal government, cantons, municipalities and the private sector as well as drafts of important federal laws (including those relating to university funding , administrative jurisdiction and administrative proceedings) and of cantonal constitutions ( Basel and Nidwalden ).

From 1960 to 1964 Imboden was a member of the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt for the FDP , and from 1960 a member and 1962 President of the Constitutional Council for a reunited Canton of Basel . From 1965 to 1967 he was a member of the National Council . Imboden was the driving force behind the discussion about the total revision of the federal constitution . In 1964, his much-acclaimed Helvetian Malaise was published . From 1967 he was a member of the expert commission for the preparation of the total revision of the federal constitution under the direction of former Federal Councilor Friedrich Traugott Wahlen . In the military he held the rank of major and was most recently on the staff of the Border Brigade 6 .

Imboden died in Basel in 1969. Part of his estate was deposited in the Zurich State Archives in 1987 and was recorded there. When the family decided to donate the entire estate to the Archives for Contemporary History , this part of the collection was also handed over to the AfZ in 1996. In 1997 the part that remained with the family followed, including Imboden's diaries. The last additions followed in 2008, in particular several publications.

Fonts

  • The law as a guarantee of the rule of law. Administration , 1954
  • The forms of government , 1959
  • Swiss administrative case law , 1960
  • Political Systems , 1964
  • Helvetic malaise , 1964

literature

  • The state as a task , Eds. P. Saladin & L. Wildhaber, 1972
  • Switzerland. Legal department 65, 1969, p. 164
  • ZSR 88 , 1969, pp. 125-130
  • Kreis, G .: The "Helvetic Malaise": Max Is hist. Acclamation and his timeless. Meaning , 2011
  • Kley, Andreas: "Max Imboden - Departure into the Future." In: Caroni, Martina et al .: On the floe and in clear heights: Administrative law - Constitutional law - Legislative theory: Festschrift for Paul Richli on his 65th birthday. Zurich / Baden-Baden 2011: Dike / Nomos, pp. 117-134.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Imboden, Max. (PDF) Archive for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich, accessed on September 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Max Imboden: Andreas Kley. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 22, 2011 , accessed September 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Imboden, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1969
Place of death Basel