Fritz Stier-Somlo

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Fritz Stier-Somlo (until 1891 only Stier ; born May 21, 1873 in Steinamanger , Austria-Hungary ; died March 10, 1932 in Cologne ) was an Austro-Hungarian jurist of Jewish descent who was trained and taught in Germany. From 1925 to 1926 he was rector of the University of Cologne .

Life

Fritz Stier was the son of Rabbi Josef Stier (1843-1919), who worked in Berlin from 1891, and his wife Auguste, née Mendelssohn (1852-1917). From October 1890 he studied law, economics and philology in Berlin . He converted to Christianity in 1898 and was baptized as a Protestant. After his first state examination in 1893 and the subsequent legal training, he was in 1896 with a thesis " On the history and legal nature of the pension assets " doctorate . After the second state examination, Stier-Somlo was appointed court assessor in 1898 and worked as a trial judge at the Charlottenburg district court until 1903 . In June 1900 he had at the University of Bonn to the granting of the venia legendi for the subjects of State and Administrative Law advertised. For the habilitation process he submitted his writings " The Owner's Duty to Preserve His Property ", " The People's Conviction as a Source of Law " and " The Influence of Civil Law on Prussian-German Administrative Law " and was accepted as a private lecturer in Bonn in January 1901. In 1904 he finally received permission to use the title of professor.

In 1911, Stier-Somlo proposed the establishment of an administrative academy to the city of Düsseldorf . The background to this was the often inadequate training of civil servants from Stier-Somlos' point of view, which in his opinion did not adequately meet the requirements of the industrialization of Germany. Already in 1911 the establishment of the municipal administration academy was approved and Stier-Somlo was appointed director of studies. As a result, however, there were numerous disputes, as a result of which he resigned in 1912. However, in the same year he was hired by the city of Cologne as a lecturer at their newly established university for communal and social administration. In 1916 he was appointed professor for public law at the Cologne Commercial College . There he founded the Department of Political Science , of which he became director and remained until his death. The seminar was the first chair in political science at a German university. In 1920 this institute was attached to the Faculty of Law . Stier-Somlo chaired the legal commission of his university and played a key role in building the commercial college into a full university, today's (new) University of Cologne. He founded the University's Institute for International and Foreign Law. Stier-Somlo was dean of the Faculty of Law in 1920 and from 1929 to 1930 , and in 1925 and 1926 he was also rector of the university.

Taurus Somlo died in a road accident. Carl Schmitt became his successor .

Fritz Stier-Somlo family grave, Südfriedhof Cologne.

Effect within the university bodies

Stier-Somlo was committed to making it possible for women to study and was a member of a commission for the training of journalists. During his time as rector of the university, he was the victim of a defamatory leaflet campaign staged by National Socialist students. His works were also burned during the book burnings in 1933 , and the seminar he founded was also closed in 1933.

Scientific activity

Fritz Stier-Somlo covered the entire area of ​​public law with his publications and his academic work. The main research interests of the political seminar he directed were, among other things, the development and nature of modern democracy , mass psychology and its impact on politics, the law of peace treaties , and studies on dictatorship .

His publications include the six-volume “Handbuch des Völkerrechts ” published between 1912 and 1928 , the “Concise Dictionary of Legal Science” (1925–1931) published jointly with Alexander Elster , the 1906 “Das Recht der Arbeiterversicherung”, “Die Freiheit der Meere und das Völkerrecht ”from 1917, the third edition of the book published in 1925 on“ The Constitution of the German Reich of 11.08.1919 ”( Weimar Constitution ) and his sixth edition of his book“ Politics ”, which appeared in 1926.

Fonts (selection)

  • German social legislation. Historical Foundations and Health Insurance Law , 1906.
  • Prussian constitutional law , 1906.
  • Collection of Prussian laws of constitutional and administrative law , 1906.
  • Politics , 1907.
  • The latest development in German trade and labor protection law , 1910.
  • Handbook of International Law , 1912 ff.
  • Die Reichsversicherung , in: Philipp Zorn , Herbert von Berger (editor): Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Ed. By Siegfried Körte, Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell and others 3 volumes. R. Hobbing, Berlin 1914.
  • Freedom of the Seas and International Law , 1917.
  • Basic and future questions of German politics , 1917.
  • On parliamentary suffrage in the cultural states of the world , 1918.
  • The constitution of the German Reich of August 11, 1919. A systematic overview , 1919.
  • The United States of Germany (democratic imperial republic). A draft with justification , 1919.
  • German Reich and State Law , 1924.
  • Concise dictionary of law , 1926–1931
  • Handbook of municipal constitutional law in Prussia. Systematic for science and practice , 1928.

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personal data
SURNAME Stier-Somlo, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinamanger , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1932
Place of death Cologne