Thomas Würtenberger

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Thomas Würtenberger (born January 27, 1943 in Erlangen ) is a German constitutional lawyer .

Life and academic career

From 1962 to 1966, Würtenberger studied law in Geneva , Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1966 and 1969 he passed the state law exams . In 1970/1971 he received a scholarship at the École nationale d'administration in Paris . In 1971 he was in Freiburg with the dissertation (published in 1973), "The legitimacy of state authority" doctorate . From 1972 to 1978 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Legal Philosophy and General Political Science (Chair Reinhold Zippelius ) in Erlangen. 1977 followed the habilitation with the habilitation thesis "Problems of Political Planning". He was the Venia legendi for the subjects of State and Administrative Law , Constitutional History and Public Administration awarded. In 1979 he became professor for public law at the University of Augsburg , and in 1981 he switched to a chair for public law, administrative science, state philosophy and constitutional history at the University of Trier .

From 1988 he held the chair for constitutional and administrative law in Freiburg. From 1998 to 2012 he was legal advisor to the Rector of Freiburg. Starting in the summer semester of 2005, he lectured at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland . In 2010 he retired. He is now head of the research center for higher education law in the law faculty of the University of Freiburg.

Scientific work

His main research interests are: legal questions of academic self-administration, scientific law, constitutional law, police law, history of political institutions and history of political symbolism.

Würtenberger became known to a larger audience because of his report, which he wrote together with Peter Wax, on the ownership structure of cultural assets of the House of Baden (see manuscript sales by the Badische Landesbibliothek ) and because of his appearance in a committee of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament . Although Würtenberger clearly identified the margrave plaque there as the property of the House of Baden, his former colleague Dieter Mertens was able to prove the opposite.

Dirk Heckmann (1995, today Professor at the Technical University of Munich and part-time constitutional judge at the Bavarian Constitutional Court ), Ralf P. Schenke (2003, today Professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg ) and Gernot Sydow (2004, today Professor ) completed their habilitation at Würtenberger at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster ).

He is considered to be one of the first to introduce the concept of the resilience of society ( Resilient Society ) into the scientific discussion.

Private

Thomas Würtenberger, a grandson of the artist Ernst Würtenberger , is the older brother of the former regional president of the Freiburg regional council, Julian Würtenberger . He is the son of the criminal lawyer of the same name , criminologist and legal philosopher Thomas Würtenberger (1907–1989).

literature

• Dirk Heckmann , Ralf P. Schenke, Gernot Sydow (ed.): Constitutional statehood in transition. Festschrift for Thomas Würtenberger on his 70th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-83918-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Würtenberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae on the website of the Research Center for University Law with picture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ em. Prof. Dr. jur. Thomas Würtenberger - Research Center for University Law and University Labor Law. Retrieved June 26, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Research Center for University Law. In: jura.uni-freiburg.de. Retrieved November 15, 2019 . 
3. ^ Christoph Gusy: Resilient Societies. State responsibility for disaster control and the ability of society to help itself. In: Special print from: Constitutional statehood in transition. Festschrift for Thomas Würtenberger for his 70th birthday (Ed .: Dirk Heckmann, Ralf P. Schenke, Gernot Sydow). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2013, accessed on February 3, 2020 : “T. Würtenberger was one of the first to introduce the figure of the Resilient Society into the scientific discussion. "