Peter Krause (legal scholar)

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Peter Wilhelm Friedrich Krause (born February 27, 1936 in Osnabrück ) is a German legal scholar .

Krause attended school in Königshütte (Upper Silesia) , Stadtoldendorf and Holzminden on the Weser and then studied law, sociology , history and philosophy at the University of Saarland . He passed his state law exams in 1962 and 1966. In 1966 he also received his doctorate. phil. In 1973 his habilitation for Heads of State and Administrative Law and Social Law . From 1973 to 1975 Krause was then professor for constitutional and administrative law as well as social law at Saarbrücken University . From 1975 until his retirement on March 31, 2004 he was full professor for public law , social law and legal philosophy at the University of Trier , where he was also head of the research center for law of reason and Prussian legal reform. In 1991 he was seconded to the law faculty of Leipzig University as the founding dean . From 1978 to 2001, Krause was also a judge at the Regional Social Court in Mainz in the second main office. Since 2000 he has been a deputy member of the Constitutional Court of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Koblenz .

His research areas were and are in particular constitutional law, general administrative law and social law, as well as legal philosophy and legal and constitutional history, especially of the 17th and 18th centuries. In addition, Krause deals intensively with the history of the "old" University of Trier and its law faculty.

Krause is married and has a son and a daughter.

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