Richard Thoma (legal scholar)

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Richard Emil Thoma (born December 19, 1874 in Todtnau , † June 26, 1957 in Bonn ) was a German constitutional law teacher and one of the leading constitutional lawyers of the Weimar Republic . Together with Gerhard Anschütz he edited the two-volume manual of German constitutional law .

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Richard Thoma, the son of a factory owner, first studied mathematics, chemistry and physics. He then studied law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the University of Munich and the University of Berlin . In 1900, Thoma was awarded a doctorate in Freiburg with the dissertation "The meaning of the will to own in the right of possession of the civil code". jur. PhD. In 1906 he was awarded the Venia Legendi for the subjects of constitutional and administrative law on the basis of his habilitation thesis “The police command in Baden law” in Freiburg .

In 1908 Thoma became a full professor for public law at the Hamburg Colonial Institute , in 1909 he accepted an appointment at the University of Tübingen and in 1911 an appointment at the University of Heidelberg . From 1928 until his retirement in 1945 he was a full professor for public law and political science at the University of Bonn and head of the Institute for International Law and Politics. Thoma was one of the most outstanding German constitutional law scholars of the Weimar Republic and the early Federal Republic of Germany . In August 1948, the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia elected him deputy member of the Parliamentary Council . In 1948/49 Richard Thoma was repeatedly called in as an expert in the Parliamentary Council.

Works (selection)

  • The reservation of the law in Prussian constitutional law. In: Festgabe for Otto Mayer. For the 70th birthday offered by friends, admirers and students. March 29, 1916. Mohr, Tübingen 1916, pp. 167-221.
  • Edited with Gerhard Anschütz : Handbuch des Deutschen Staatsrechts. 2 volumes. Mohr, Tübingen 1930/1932.
  • State finances in the national community. A contribution to shaping German socialism. Mohr, Tübingen 1937.
  • About the nature and manifestations of modern democracy. Dümmler, Bonn 1948.
  • Outline of the general doctrine of the state. Dümmler, Bonn 1948.
  • The teaching freedom of university lecturers and their limitation by the Bonn Basic Law. Mohr, Tübingen 1952.
  • Rule of Law - Democracy - Fundamental Rights. Selected essays from five decades. Edited and introduced by Horst Dreier . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008.

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Web links

Commons : Richard Thoma  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kilian, Michael, Wolff, Heinrich Amadeus, Häberle, Peter, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG: Constitutional law teachers of the 20th century Germany - Austria - Switzerland . 2. edit again and exp. Edition. Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-054145-8 , pp. 183-196 ( degruyter.com [accessed on 25 November 2018]).