Peter Schneider (legal scholar)

A recording by Peter Schneider in the mountains of Eastern Switzerland from 1993

Peter Schneider (* 10. July 1920 in Zurich , † 23. July 2002 in Zurich) was a Swiss legal scholar who, after 1949 in Tübingen and Professor of Public Law in Mainz and as rector and president of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz worked .

Life

Peter Schneider was promoted to Dr. iur. at the University of Zurich with Dietrich Schindler with a legal philosophical thesis on Ignaz Paul Vitalis Troxler . After 1949 he was a research assistant to Carlo Schmid at the University of Tübingen and head of the Leibniz-Kolleg , with a thesis on Carl Schmitt he qualified as a professor in 1955 in general political theory, constitutional law, international law and legal philosophy and became a full professor for public law in Mainz in 1956. There he was elected rector of the university in 1969 at the height of the student movement and in this office he was involved in the debate about university reform , its legal structure and its practical implementation. He was the last rector of the University of Mainz under the old university constitution and from 1974 to 1980 the first president under the new university legislation, which introduced the group university, which was divided into departments . In 1989 he accepted the Chiemsee scholarship at the 1st Constitutional Discussion at Herrenchiemsee .

Peter Schneider's social commitment results from the following:

• 1974–1990 Chairman of the Board of Trustees, German Cancer Aid
• 1977–1984 founding chairman and chairman of the board, Tumorzentrum Rhld.-Pfalz
• 1977–1988 founding member and chairman of the German Reading Society
• 1974–1984 member of the Broadcasting Council of Südwestfunk, Baden-Baden
• 1988–1995 Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Reading Foundation

Honors

• Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Legion d'honneur
• Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• u. a.

Fonts (selection)

• Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler and the Law: A Study to Prove the Significance of Romantic Thoughts for the Development of the Swiss Federal State. Zurich, 1948
• State of exception and norm: a study of the legal theory by Carl Schmitt. Stuttgart, 1957
• Legal opinion on the State Treaty on the establishment of the Second German Television. Mainz, 1965
• The questionability of the law in the work of Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Karlsruhe, 1967
• Legal and political aspects of the Nazi criminal trials. Mainz, 1967
• Freedom of the press and state security. Mainz, 1968
• Law and power. Mainz, 1970
• Mainz – Beijing, drawings, notes. Considerations. Mainz, 1973
• "... one people of brothers" - law and state in literature. 1st edition Frankfurt, 1987
• The unholy realm of Reineke Fuchs. Frankfurt, 1990
• The civil state. Frankfurt, 1990
• Mainz Republic and the French Revolution. Mainz, 1990
• The elephant. Goethe on law, state and society in Faust II. Posthumously ed. by G. Wettberg Schneider, Freiburg, 2009

Numerous contributions to scientific compilations, articles in celebratory publications and journal articles in the areas of legal philosophy, general political theory, constitutional law, administrative law and international law.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 10 (1966), Vol. 2, p. 2201

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Obituary ( memento from January 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) 2002
• Günter Eifler: Obituary ( Memento from August 22, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) 2002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.verfassungsgespraeche.de