Otto Mayer (lawyer)

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Otto Mayer (born March 29, 1846 in Fürth ; † August 8, 1924 in Hilpertsau ) was a German university professor for administrative law and church law . He decisively shaped the concept of the administrative act and thus the dogmatic foundations of German administrative law .

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Otto Mayer studied law at the University of Erlangen from 1864 and passed his exam there in 1868. In 1869 the doctorate to Dr. iur. , 1871 the state examination . From 1872 he worked as a lawyer in Mulhouse in Alsace, where he specialized in commercial law. In 1879 he became president of the Mülhausen Bar Association.

In 1880 he moved to Strasbourg , where he completed his habilitation in 1881 . In 1882 he received an extraordinary professorship for administrative law at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität , and in 1887 a full professorship . The two volumes of his textbook on German administrative law were published in 1895 and 1896 . In 1902/03 he was rector of the university before moving to Leipzig University in 1903 . He taught public law and was rector in 1913/14. In the summer of 1918 he retired .

Starting from French administrative law , he was the pioneer of German administrative law, which reached a climax in the codification of general administrative procedural law in 1976 in the Administrative Procedure Act . The subordination theory , which deals with the delimitation of public and private law , can be traced back to Mayer.

Under the pseudonym Eduard Dupré , Mayer also wrote numerous literary works, including After the War. Tales of an old lawyer (1906). He was a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity .

Honors

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literature

reference books

Monographs

  • Erk Volkmar Heyen : Otto Mayer. Studies on the intellectual foundations of his administrative law studies (= series of the University of Speyer , volume 84). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-428-05030-4 .
  • Alfons Hueber : Otto Mayer. “Legal method” in administrative law (= publications on public law , Volume 405). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-05044-4 .
  • Reimund Schmidt-De Caluwe : The administrative act in the teaching of Otto Mayer. State-theoretical foundations, dogmatic design and their constitutionally conditioned transitoriness (= Jus publicum , Volume 38). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-16-147025-7 .

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Mayer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Steffen Detterbeck : General administrative law . 12th edition. Beck, Munich 2014, Rn. 420
  2. a b Mayer's Rector's Speeches (HKM) .
  3. ^ Wolf Reinbach: Max Weber and the fraternity Allemannia zu Heidelberg. (PDF) Allemannia, December 20, 2014, p. 2, 130 , accessed on May 4, 2019 .
  4. Wolfgang Eger : Speyer street names . Hermann G. Klein Verlag, Speyer 1985, margin number 362.