Otto Mayer (lawyer)
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 .
Live and act
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
- Memorial plaque on the house where he was born in Königstrasse 82, Fürth
- Otto-Mayer-Straße at the German University for Administrative Sciences Speyer
Fonts (selection)
- French administrative law theory . Trübner, Strasbourg 1886 ( archive.org )
- German administrative law , 2 volumes. Duncker & Humblot, Volume 1, Leipzig 1895 ( Digitalisat and full text in the German text archives and digitized the state library Berlin ), Vol 2, Leipzig 1896 ( Digitalisat and full text in the German text archives and digitized the state library Berlin ); 2nd edition 1914/1917. 3rd edition 1924.
- The constitutional law of the Kingdom of Saxony . Mohr, Tübingen 1909.
literature
reference books
- Erk Volkmar Heyen : Mayer, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 550-552 ( digitized version ).
- Alfons Hueber : Otto Mayer . In: Adalbert Erler , Ekkehard Kaufmann (Hrsg.): Concise dictionary for German legal history . Volume 3: List – Protonotar . Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-503-00015-1 , Sp. 402 ff.
- Katja Jönsson, Matthias Wolfes : Otto Mayer. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 991-1011.
- Martin Otto: Otto Mayer (1846-1924) . In: Albrecht Cordes , Hans-Peter Haferkamp , Heiner Lück , Dieter Werkmüller (Hrsg.): Concise dictionary on German legal history 2nd edition. Volume 3: Conflict Management — Novgorod . Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-503-17011-1 , Sp. 1384-1387.
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
- Benjamin Schindler: "Constitutional law passes, administrative law exists." Comments on a winged word by Otto Mayer (PDF) Habilitation lecture at the University of Zurich, April 21, 2010
- Literature by and about Otto Mayer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Otto Mayer in the German Digital Library
- Otto Mayer (lawyer) in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Overview of the courses of Otto Mayer (lawyer) at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1903 to summer semester 1914)
Individual evidence
- ^ Steffen Detterbeck : General administrative law . 12th edition. Beck, Munich 2014, Rn. 420
- ↑ a b Mayer's Rector's Speeches (HKM) .
- ^ Wolf Reinbach: Max Weber and the fraternity Allemannia zu Heidelberg. (PDF) Allemannia, December 20, 2014, p. 2, 130 , accessed on May 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Eger : Speyer street names . Hermann G. Klein Verlag, Speyer 1985, margin number 362.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mayer, Otto |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dupré, Eduard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1846 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Fuerth |
DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1924 |
Place of death | Hilpertsau |