Ottmar Bühler

Ottmar Bühler (born August 12, 1884 in Zurich ; † May 27, 1965 in Munich ) was a German law scholar and university professor.

The family grave of Ottmar Bühler in the Bogenhausen cemetery in Munich.

Career

Buhler, who was born in 1884 as the son of a lay in Swabia Professor of Forestry, studied in Tübingen , Munich and Berlin Law and received his doctorate in 1911 at the University of Tübingen with a study on the relationship between civil jurisdiction and administration in Wuerttemberg in the 19th century. In 1912 he accepted the position of a government assistant in Württemberg, completed his habilitation in public law at the University of Breslau in 1913 and taught there as a private lecturer . He took part in the First World War as a lieutenant .

From 1919 he worked as an associate professor for public law at the University of Münster , changed to a chair at the University of Halle for a short time in 1922/23 , but returned to Münster in 1923 and took on a newly created professorship there . From 1942 until his retirement in 1952 he was a professor at the University of Cologne . Then he worked as a lecturer at the University of Munich .

Bühler, who was a member of the Stahlhelm during the Weimar period , did not join the NSDAP during the Nazi era , but was a supporting member of the SS .

Bühler's specialties were German and international finance and tax law . His work The Subjective Public Rights from 1914 is considered to be the cornerstone for the development of the protection norm theory , with which in German administrative law the citizen's right of action against the state is derived.

The University of Munich awards the Ottmar Bühler Prize for services in the field of taxation.

literature

• Sebastian Felz: In the spirit of truth? Between science and politics: The Münster jurists from the Weimar Republic to the early Federal Republic. In: Hans-Ulrich Thamer , Daniel Droste, Sabine Happ (eds.): The University of Münster in National Socialism. Continuities and breaks between 1920 and 1960 (= publications of the Münster University Archives. Volume 5). Aschendorff, Münster 2012, Vol. 1, pp. 347-412.
• Ekkehart Reimer : Ottmar Bühler (1884–1965) , in: Peter Häberle, Michael Kilian, Heinrich Amadeus Wolff (eds.): Constitutional law teacher of the 20th century. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, pp. 272–297.
• Lieselotte Steveling: Lawyers in Münster. A contribution to the history of the law and political science faculty of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster / Westf. (Contributions to the history of sociology; 10). Lit, Münster 1999.
• Henning Tappe / Simon Kempny: Ottmar Bühler: My position on National Socialism. Historical consideration on the occasion of the 125th birthday of Ottmar Bühler and the 75th anniversary of the Institute for Tax Law in Münster. In: Steuer und Wirtschaft (StuW) 2009, pp. 376–379.

Web links

• Ottmar Bühler on the website of the University of Cologne
• Entry on Ottmar Bühler in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ottmar Bühler: The jurisdiction of the civil courts vis-à-vis the administration in Württemberg law and its development since the beginning of the 19th century. A contribution to the doctrine of the demarcation of justice and administration (=  Tübinger Staatswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen . Volume 16 ). Enke, Stuttgart 1911.
2. ↑ Entry: Ottmar Bühler. In: Catalogus Professorum Halensis. Retrieved December 3, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Choice in: Schoch / Schneider / Bier, Administrative Court Regulations 35th EL September 2018, Section 42 Paragraph 2 Rn. 94.
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ottmar Bühler Prize.