Peter Lark

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Peter Lerche (born January 12, 1928 in Leitmeritz , Czechoslovakia ; † March 14, 2016 in Gauting , Germany ) was a German legal scholar and professor of public law .

Life

Peter Lerche, son of the lawyer Fritz Lerche and Karoline, b. Artmann, studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1952 he was in Munich with the dissertation What influence does Section 22 of the laws on administrative jurisdiction in the American zone and Ordinance No. 165 of the British Military Government on administrative jurisdiction have on the question of the admissibility or inadmissibility of the ordinary legal process? to the Dr. iur. PhD. In 1958 he was at the University of Munich as a student of Theodor Maunz with the - font - 1999, published in the second edition of "excess and constitutional law: To bind the legislature of the principles of proportionality and necessity" habilitation .

In 1961 he accepted a call to the Faculty of Law at the Free University of Berlin . In the years 1962 to 1964 he turned down offers to Hamburg and Bochum . In 1964 he returned to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he stayed until his retirement in 1996.

Lerche had been married to Ilse, a doctor of law, since 1955. born Peschek; there were two sons from the marriage.

Act

Lerche's main areas of teaching and research were public law, media law, general political theory, constitutional law and administrative law. He has published numerous scientific works and essays as well as legal commentaries. With his post-doctoral dissertation on oversize and constitutional law, he shaped the concept of the prohibition of oversize, which was quickly received by jurisprudence and teaching, and developed it dogmatically.

In the thirty years that he taught in Munich, the focus of his research was in the field of constitutional law with particular emphasis on media law problems (deputy chairman of the Bavarian cable pilot project, board member of the Bavarian State Institute for New Media, etc.). He regularly appeared in important processes before the constitutional courts, for example in proceedings on media law issues, but also on the criminal liability of abortion, the State Liability Act, state financial equalization, party financing, the question of retrofitting and the Maastricht Treaty .

Lark was u. a. Doctoral supervisor of Paul Kirchhof , Alexander Wolf , Rupert Scholz , Michael Kloepfer and Andreas Voßkuhle .

Between 1971 and 1974 he was involved in founding the law faculty of the University of Augsburg . From 1981 to 1984 he was chairman of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers and a member of the Science Council.

Lerche was a member of the board of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung from 1983 to 2012 . He was a member of the study group for press law and freedom of the press eV, its board member from 1987 to 2007. Since 1947 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Tuiskonia Munich and the KDStV Aureata Eichstätt in the CV .

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Ordinary legal and administrative process , 1953.
  • Oversize and Constitutional Law , 1961 (habilitation thesis), 2nd edition 1999.
  • On the area of ​​competence of Deutschlandfunk , 1963.
  • Legal Problems of TV Advertising , 1965.
  • Broadcasting monopoly , 1970.
  • Basic Theory of the Rule of Law , 1996 (Korean).
  • Constitutional jurisdiction in special situations , 2001.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Lerche obituary notice , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 19, 2016.
  2. ^ Obituary notice from the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation: Peter Lerche , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 19, 2016.
  3. ^ Obituary notice of the Study Group for Press Law and Press Freedom eV: Peter Lerche , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Lark, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Leitmeritz , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2016
Place of death Gauting , Starnberg District , Bavaria