Roman cord

Roman cord (* 21st October 1927 in Merzig / Saar, † 5. August 1996 in Tübingen ) was a German heads of state and administrative law and 1972-1993 Professor of Public Law in Tübingen.

life and work

Roman Schnur was born in Saarland in 1927 as the son of an elementary school teacher. Growing up in modest circumstances and temporarily employed as an air force helper during the war, Schnur had to catch up with his Abitur in 1947. He then began studying law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

Schnur received his doctorate from Karl Siegfried Bader with a legal history thesis on the " Rhine Confederation of 1658 in German constitutional history ". After completing his doctorate and traineeship, he became the editorial secretary of the “ Archives for Legal and Social Philosophy ” (ARSP) in the spring of 1955 under the direction of the legal philosopher Theodor Viehweg . At the magazine, Schnur was responsible for the thematic focus “Political Philosophy”. Here he was one of the first who, after 1945, published numerous publications to promote the study of Carl Schmitt, who had been discredited as the “crown lawyer of the Third Reich” . Schnur admired Schmitt and belonged to his close circle of students and acquaintances.

In 1956 Schnur became assistant to the well-known administrative scientist and practitioner Carl Hermann Ule at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . Following his teacher, Schnur also specialized in administrative law. In 1961, Schnur completed his habilitation with Schmitt's student Ernst Forsthoff with a thesis on the “Concept of the Law”.

Together with Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde , Schnur founded the renowned specialist journal Der Staat in 1962 . Here, too, Schnur - together with Helmut Quaritsch - campaigned for the study of Carl Schmitt.

Like his teacher Ule from Speyer, Schnur was also drawn into government practice. Between 1961 and 1965 he was a senior government councilor in the Mainz State Chancellery. Here he gained an excellent reputation as a specialist in administrative reforms.

Efforts to obtain a professorship, however, did not lead to success until 1965. Schnur was appointed to the chair for political science at the newly founded Ruhr University Bochum . Schnur, whose chair was supposed to cover a legal focus, belonged to the first generation of professors at the university who only started teaching in 1965 - three years after it was founded. In 1968 Schnur followed the call to the University of Speyer, where he held the chair for comparative administrative science and public law. In 1972 he was appointed to the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where Schnur held a professorship for public law, underscored his establishment in the scientific community.

Schnur's academic interest was primarily in constitutional law, institutional theory and administrative law. He is one of those representatives of the doctrine of constitutional law who aggressively tried to win back the primacy of interpretation in questions of constitutional law against the Federal Constitutional Court.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The French jurists in the denominational civil war of the 16th century. A contribution to the genesis of the modern state , Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1962.
• Individualism and absolutism. On political theory before Thomas Hobbes. Berlin 1963.
• Administrative Reform Strategy and Tactics. 1966.
• Vive la République or Vive la France. On the crisis of democracy in France 1939/1940 , Berlin 1982.
• Revolution and world civil war. Studies on the overture after 1789 , Berlin 1983.
• Poland in Central Europe . Baden-Baden 1984.
• Transversal. Securing evidence in Central Europe , Vienna: Karolinger Verlag 1988.
• History entangled in stories. From Astrakhan to Kairouan (via Jeruzalem) , 1992.

Editorships

• (Ed. :) On the history of the declaration of human rights. Darmstadt 1964.
• (Ed. :) Institution and Law. Darmstadt 1968.
• (Ed. With Reinhart Koselleck :) Hobbes research. Berlin 1969.
• (Ed. :) Festschrift for Ernst Forsthoff on his 70th birthday. Munich 1972.
• (Ed. :) Reason of State. Studies on the History of a Political Concept. Berlin 1975.
• (Ed. :) State and society. Studies on Lorenz von Stein. Berlin 1978.
• (Ed. :) The role of lawyers in the emergence of the modern state. Berlin 1986.

Essays

• The crisis of the concept of services publics in French administrative law. In: Archives of Public Law. 79th volume, issue 4/1954.
• Federalism as a political problem. In: New Political Literature. Issue 10/1960.
• The normative power of the constitution. In: German administrative gazette. Vol. 74, 1960, pp. 197-221.
• Problems with the concept of interference in police law. In: German administrative gazette. 77 year, issue 1/1962.
• Basic law, state constitution and 'higher municipal associations'. In: DÖV. Issue 4/1965.
• The concept of 'prevailing opinion' in legal dogmatics. In: Festgabe for Ernst Forsthoff. Munich 1967.
• Freedom of the press. In: Publications of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers. Issue 22 / o. J.
• Privilege of lawyers in administration? In: The administration. Issue 2/1977.
• On the theory of civil war. In: The State. Issue 3/1980.
• Central Europe from a Prussian perspective: Constantin Frantz . In: Der Staat, Vol. 25 (1986), pp. 545-573.
• Lazarus von Schwendi (1522-1583). An unfinished business in historical research . In: Journal for historical research, 14th vol. (1987), pp. 27-46.
• The enabling laws of Berlin 1933 and Vichy 1940 in comparison , Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen 1993 (Tübinger Universitätsreden, NF, Volume 8).
• State security. One aspect of the French Revolution. In: Helmut Neuhaus (ed.): Constitution and administration. Festschrift for Kurt GA Jeserich on his 90th birthday. Cologne 1994, p. 125ff.

literature

• In memory of Professor Dr. iur. Dr. hc Roman Schnur (1927–1996) , ed. v. of the Faculty of Law in cooperation with the press office of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen: Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Law Faculty, 1999 (= Tübinger Universitätsreden, 12).
• Frieder Günther : Thinking from the state. The Federal German constitutional law theory between decision and integration 1949-1970. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2004.
• Dirk van Laak : Conversations in the security of silence. Carl Schmitt in the political intellectual history of the early Federal Republic , Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1993.
• Rudolf Morsey / Helmut Quaritsch / Heinrich Siedentopf (eds.): State, politics, administration in Europe. Commemorative writing for Roman Schnur. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1997.
• Wolfgang Schuller : Commemorative speech for Roman Schnur on his 70th birthday. On October 20, 1997 in front of the law faculty of the University of Tübingen. In: Der Staat 37 (1998), pp. 411-416.

Web links

• Literature by and about Roman Schnur in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In “Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar”, Rottenburg- Wurmlingen is named as the place of death , the last place of residence of Roman Schnur.