Otto Bachof

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Otto Bachof (born March 6, 1914 in Bremen ; † January 21, 2006 ) was a German lawyer, professor of public law and a member of the State Court of Baden-Württemberg . He is considered to be one of the most important re-founders of German constitutional administrative law after 1945.

Life

Otto Bachof was born the son of a lawyer. After graduating from high school in 1932, he studied law at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Geneva , Berlin , Königsberg and Munich . During his studies he became a member of the AMV Alt-Straßburg Freiburg (in the special houses association ). In 1935 he took his first state law examination at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1938 he was at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg with the work "The parish status of large institutions in the German Protestant churches" doctorate .

This was followed by the second state examination in law and the first job as a government assessor in Marburg . After his military service in 1940 he worked in the Stolp district office ( Pomerania ) and then in the district government in Koblenz . There he was in 1942 Governing Council . Again he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. After the end of the war in 1945 he was initially a construction worker in Koblenz, and from 1946 employed in an accountancy office in Stuttgart . In 1947 he became a ministerial advisor at the Stuttgart Administrative Court , in 1948 Administrative Court Director and in 1949 Senior Administrative Judge.

In 1950 Otto Bachof completed his habilitation at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg under Walter Jellinek with the thesis "The administrative court action for the performance of an official act" . He was then a lecturer and received in 1952 a call to the University of Erlangen . In 1955 he moved to the chair for public law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen with a focus on public law , constitutional law , administrative law , legal philosophy and general political theory .

From 1958 to 1985 Otto Bachof was a member of the State Court of Baden-Württemberg and from 1959 to 1961 Rector of the University of Tübingen.

Otto Bachof received honorary doctorates from the University of Aix-Marseille (1968) and the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg (1989). In 1987 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Otto Bachof's private library was taken over by Osnabrück constitutional lawyer Jörn Ipsen . On November 17, 2006, the books were integrated into the library of the Institute for Local Law with the name "Otto Bachof Library".

He was born with Elisabeth Heidsieck married.

literature

  • Hans Heinrich Rupp: On the death of Otto Bachof (1914 to 2006). Obituary . In: AöR . Vol. 132, 2007, pp. 114-116.
  • Hermann Weber : Otto Bachof . In: A portrait of lawyers. Publisher and authors in 4 decades . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1988, pp. 109-125, ISBN 3-406-33196-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Weber, in: Jurists in portrait. Publisher and authors in 4 decades, Munich 1988, p. 109.
  2. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 21.

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personal data
SURNAME Bachof, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2006