Ralf Dreier

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Ralf Dreier (born October 10, 1931 in Bad Oeynhausen ; † January 7, 2018 in Göttingen ) was a German legal scholar and legal philosopher .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1952, Dreier completed a one-year traineeship in the wood industry and then studied law at the universities of Hamburg , Freiburg im Breisgau and Münster . He passed the first state examination in law in 1957 and the second state examination in 1963 - in the same year he was awarded a doctorate at the University of Münster. jur. PhD . From 1967 to 1970 he received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and also completed his habilitation in Münster in 1970 ( venia legendi : constitutional and administrative law, legal philosophy, canon law). It was there that he worked as a scientific adviser until 1973 and then as a full professor. From 1973 until his retirement in 1997, Dreier taught as a full professor for general legal theory at the University of Göttingen .

At the same time he was a judge at the legal court of the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony and from 1988 to 1994 as 1st chairman of the German (until 1990 West German) section of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR) .

Ralf Dreier has been a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 1980 . He was also the academic teacher of the German legal philosopher Robert Alexy .

Fonts (selection)

  • Law, State, Reason (1991)
  • Law and Justice in the "Third Reich" (1989)
  • Legal concept and legal idea (1986)
  • Funk College Law / Vol. 1 (1985)
  • Law, Morality, Ideology: Studies in Legal Theory (1981)
  • Problems of Constitutional Interpretation (1976)
  • What is and why general legal theory? (Law and State, Past and Present) (1975)
  • On the concept of the "nature of the matter" (1965)
  • Legal coming to terms with the past (1995)

literature

  • Robert Alexy (Ed.): Integrative Understanding. On Ralf Dreier's legal philosophy . Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-16-148724-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita . Website of the Ralf Dreier chair. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Dreier, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Oeynhausen
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2018
Place of death Goettingen