Ottmar Ballweg

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Ottmar Ballweg (born March 11, 1928 in Hockenheim ; † September 17, 2019 ) was a German lawyer and philosopher .

After receiving his doctorate as Doctor Juris Utriusque in 1959 at the legal faculty in Basel , he completed his habilitation in 1968 in the subjects of legal philosophy and legal sociology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , where he was professor in these subjects from 1973 until his retirement in 1993 .

Ballweg was next to Theodor Viehweg the most important representative of the Mainz School , a branch of legal rhetoric .

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