Paul Mikat

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Paul Mikat (1983)
Candidate poster for the 1980 federal election

Paul Mikat (born December 10, 1924 in Scherfede ; † September 24, 2011 in Düsseldorf ) was a German professor of civil law, legal history and canon law, politician ( CDU ) and from 1962 to 1966 Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

Paul Mikat was the illegitimate child of a doctor and art historian and a Roman priest. He was adopted and raised by Leo Mikat, a Protestant executive at Krupp, and his wife, a Catholic teacher.

Mikat visited the school Marianum in Warburg and studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn law . In 1954 he was with the work of Sexual Impotence as an impediment to marriage in canon law doctorate . There he completed his habilitation in 1956.

In 1949 he became a member of the KDSt.V. Rheinfels Bonn (later merged with KDSt.V. Ascania Bonn ) in the CV .

In 1957 he accepted a professorship for German law, civil law, commercial law and church law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . There he was director of the Institute for German Law and the Institute for Church Legal History until 1965. In 1965 he accepted a position at the Ruhr University in Bochum , where he was a full professor for civil law, legal history and canon law until his retirement in 1990.

In 1962, Mikat was appointed Minister of Education for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia; he held this office until he switched to a social-liberal coalition in 1966. During this time, measures were taken to remedy the shortage of teachers by bringing new teachers into the civil service with short training who did not have the classic careers of studies, first and second state exams. These teachers were colloquially called " Mikatzen " or "Mikater".

Due to the large number of decrees and decrees, a time unit was jokingly named after him, which includes the mean distance between two decrees.

From 1966 to 1969 he was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament. From 1969 to 1987 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

Mikat also held a number of other offices: in 1987 he was appointed Chairman of the Mining Regions Commission and in 1998 Chairman of the Federal Government's Energy Commission. Under his leadership, the so-called "Mikat Commission" worked out a perspective for German hard coal mining from 1989 onwards after the expiry of the contract of the century . He was also chairman of the founding committee of the Faculty of Law at Düsseldorf University and the founding committee of Bielefeld University as well as a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts , of which he was president from 1998 to 2001. Mikat was also a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . From 1967 to 2007 he was President of the Görres Society for the Care of Science . He has been a member of the board of the Peter Klöckner Foundation since 1983 and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation since 1984 .

When the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade was awarded in 1966, Paul Mikat was the laudator for the Catholic Curia Cardinal Augustinus Cardinal Bea (1881–1968) and the Dutch Reformed theologian Willem Adolf Visser 't Hooft (1900–1985).

In October 2009, documents were submitted according to which Mikat was a member of the NSDAP (membership number 9,596,776; admission date April 23, 1943). This sparked a public controversy, in the course of which Mikat made no comment.

Awards

He was also an honorary senator of the University of Düsseldorf and received three additional honorary doctorates before 1998.

Foundations

  • 1992: Paul Mikat Foundation with the purpose of promoting research and teaching at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, specifically by supporting the Faculty of Law. The foundation's assets on December 31, 2007 amounted to € 82,000.

See also

Publications (selection)

  • (together with Leonhard Küppers): The Essen Minster Treasure . Fredebeul & Koenen, Essen 1966.
  • (together with Helmut Schelsky ): Fundamentals of a new university. To plan a university foundation in East Westphalia . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1967.
  • Divorce law reform in a pluralistic society . Gieseking, Bielefeld 1970.
  • On the legal significance of religious interests . Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei- u. Verl.-Ges., Düsseldorf 1973.
  • Religious law writings . Two volumes (= State Church Law Treatises, Vol. 5). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-03262-4 .
  • Endowed marriage - right marriage. On the development of marriage law in Franconian times . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1978, ISBN 3-531-07227-7 .
  • (as editor): Church and State in Recent Development (Ways of Research, Vol. 566). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-534-08166-8 .
  • Legal problems of the power of the keys . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1981, ISBN 3-531-07255-2 .
  • History, law, religion, politics . Two volumes. Schöningh, Paderborn 1984, ISBN 3-506-75600-1 .
  • Ethical Structures of Marriage in Our Time. On the question of standardization in the context of the occidental understanding of marriage . Schöningh, Paderborn 1987, ISBN 3-506-75601-X .
  • The incest legislation of the Merovingian-Franconian councils (511 - 626/27) (= legal and political science publications of the Görres Society, NF, vol. 74). Schöningh, Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-506-73375-3 .
  • Conflict and loyalty. Conditions for the encounter between the early Church and the Roman Empire . Schöningh, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-76430-0 .

swell

  • The cabinet minutes of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia 1966 to 1970 (sixth electoral period) (= publications of the state archive of North Rhine-Westphalia. Vol. 8). Edited by Christoph Nonn, Wilfried Reininghaus and Wolf-Rüdiger Schleidgen, introduced and edited by Andreas Pilger, Siegburg 2006, ISBN 3-87710-361-8 .

literature

  • Peter Landau : Paul Mikat (December 10, 1924– September 24, 2011). In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Canonical Department 99 (2013), pp. 478–484.
  • Rudolf Morsey : On the vita of Paul Mikat (1924–2011) up to his appointment to the University of Würzburg (1957). In: Historisch-Politische Mitteilungen 22 (2015), pp. 275–300.
  • Dieter Schwab (Ed.): State, Church, Science in a Pluralistic Society. Festschrift for the 65th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1989. ISBN 3-428-06759-2
  • Rolf Willhardt (Ed.): The founding father: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Paul Mikat on his 75th birthday. Düsseldorf 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Bahners : Paul Mikat's secret . In: FAZ March 8, 2017, No. 57, p. N3 .
  2. ^ Paul Mikat at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
  3. ↑ The Mikat Commission . Die Zeit, March 30, 1990
  4. ^ Eckart Klaus Roloff : Pathfinder of research. Paul Mikat, President of the Görres Society, who has been in office for 40 years, always gives important impulses. In: Rheinischer Merkur (Bonn), No. 39 of September 28, 2006, p. 22
  5. ^ Michael Carlo Klepsch: 60 years of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament. The forgotten brown legacy (PDF; 6.7 MB), Münster 2009
  6. ↑ Timeline for the development of Bielefeld University , accessed on November 10, 2009
  7. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b Chronicle of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (PDF; 752 kB), in: Yearbook of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf 2004, p. 655, accessed on November 10, 2009
  9. ^ Image with caption , accessed on November 10, 2009
  10. ↑ 30 years of the University of Dortmund: Paul Mikat receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Dortmund , in: University protocols according to a report by the Information Service Science on December 16, 1998, accessed on November 10, 2009
  11. ^ A stroke of luck for RUB and the region: Ruhr University honors Prof. Paul Mikat , Ruhr University press release in Information Service Science from November 9, 2009, accessed on November 10, 2009
  12. ↑ Paul Mikat Foundation ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 18, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unifreunde-duesseldorf.de
personal data
SURNAME Mikat, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag and legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Scherfede
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2011
Place of death Dusseldorf