Max Wenzel (legal scholar)

Max Wenzel (* 1882 in Bernkastel-Kues ; † January 16, 1967 ) was a German law scholar and constitutional law teacher .

Wenzel first studied in Freiburg and was then a student of Philipp Zorn at the University of Bonn . There he completed his habilitation in 1913. He was appointed to Rostock in 1920 and to Erlangen in 1928 for the late Karl Rieker .

Wenzel was a founding member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers .

After 1945, Wenzel defended lawyers burdened by National Socialism . In 1947 he was denazified as a fellow traveler, appointed professor of constitutional law, administrative law and international law at the University of Erlangen and retired at the same time. Since 1949 he was a lecturer at the Philosophical-Theological University of Bamberg . In 1953 his retirement was converted into an emeritus state; he taught until 1957.

Publications

• War Victims Care. The jurisprudence of the Federal Social Court with the inclusion of the fundamental decisions of the Reich Supply Court. A reference work arranged according to subject areas , Heymann, Cologne, Munich 1964.
• The law on Article 131 of the Basic Law and the university lecturers. A critical investigation , commentator, Frankfurt am Main 1953.
• Legal problem of the fellow traveler , Tümmel, Nuremberg 1949.
• Legal status of the denazified officials. Critical legal considerations on the federal law on Article 131 of the Basic Law , Nuremberg 1949, Tübingen 1951.
• (together with Max Wuttke): Concise dictionary of the Reichsversorgung. Including the Wehrmacht welfare and supply laws , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1942.
• (Co-speaker: Hermann Heller ): The concept of the law in the Reich constitution , in: Publications of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers 4 (1928), pp. 136–167.
• The sovereign rights in the Bay of Lübeck. A contribution to the international law of the sea , Hinstorff, Rostock 1926.
• Basic legal problems . Vol. 1: The concept of the law. At the same time, an investigation into the concept of the state and the problem of international law , Dümmler, Berlin 1920.
• Original power of rule and concept of the state. A contribution to the question of the unified state and a criticism of Redslob's theory , in: Festgabe der Bonn Law Faculty for Karl Bergbohm on his 70th birthday , Marcus u. Weber, Bonn 1919, pp. 159-206.
• On the doctrine of the contractual elements of the imperial constitution. A critical study from the Reichsstaatsrecht , Mohr, Tübingen 1909.

literature

• Gerhard Köbler : Who is who in German law .
• Michael Stolleis : The History of Public Law in Germany . Vol. 3: Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies in the Republic and Dictatorship 1914–1945 , Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-37002-0 , p. 264 u. Notes 109, 110.

Web links

• Entry on Max Wenzel in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium