Ulrich K. Preuss

Ulrich K. Preuss (2011).

Ulrich Klaus Preuß (born December 6, 1939 in Marienburg, West Prussia ) is a German lawyer and political scientist.

Life

Preuss studied law from 1960 to 1964 at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and the Free University of Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1968 from the University of Giessen . In 1969 he was one of the founders of the Socialist Lawyers' Collective . From 1966 to 1972 he was employed as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin . In 1972 he became professor for public law at the University of Bremen , where he taught until 1996.

In 1989/1990 Preuss was involved in the drafting of a new constitution for the German Democratic Republic of the Round Table for the New Forum . In the academic year 1989/1990 Preuss was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

In 1992/1993, at the suggestion of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, he was an advisory member of the Thuringian constitutional committee for the drafting of a state constitution . In 1992 he became a judge at the State Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . From 1996 he was a professor at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught public law and politics at the Otto Suhr Institute until his retirement in 2005 . Preuss has held visiting professorships at Princeton University , New School University in New York and the University of Chicago Law School. From September 2005 to September 2010 Ulrich K. Preuß was Professor of State Theory at the Hertie School of Governance .

Preuss research focuses on political theory, state, constitutional and legal theory.

In 1973, Preuss, as lawyer for Ulrike Meinhof, filed a criminal complaint against Diether Posser, then Minister of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia, because of Meinhof's strict solitary confinement in the Cologne-Ossendorf prison from June 16, 1972 to February 9, 1973. As defense attorney Preuss was involved in the 1979/1980 trial against Astrid Proll together with Heinrich Hannover and the Frankfurt lawyer Johannes Riemann .

In September 2019 he was one of about 100 constitutional law teachers who, with the open appeal for the right to vote, Downsized the Bundestag! turned to the German Bundestag .

Honors

In 2012 Preuß was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Bremen.

Fonts (selection)

Legality and pluralism. Contributions to the constitutional law of the Federal Republic of Germany , Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-518-00626-6 .
The internalization of the subject. On the critique of the functioning of subjective law , Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 978-3-518-06032-2 .
Political responsibility and citizen loyalty. On the limits of the constitution and obedience in democracy , Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-10-062410-6 .
Revolution, Progress and the Constitution. On a new understanding of the constitution , expanded new edition, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-11921-9 .
War, crime, blasphemy. On the future of global neighborhood , Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8031-2473-5 .
together with Claudio Franzius : The future of European democracy , Baden-Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8329-7684-2 .

literature

Law and politics. On the understanding of the state by Ulrich K. Preuss , ed. by Claudio Franzius and Tine Stein , Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-2129-0 .

Web links

Commons : Ulrich K. Preuß - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Ulrich K. Preuß: The attempt at a constitution for the sinking GDR - a workshop report. In: Dieter Grimm , Alexandra Kemmerer, Christoph Möllers (eds.): Rumors of law. Lectures and discussions from the Berlin seminar Law in Context. Baden-Baden 2015, pp. 49–96.
↑ Ulf G. Stuberger (Ed.): “In the criminal case against Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Jan-Carl Rapse, Gudrun Ensslin for murder and the like. a. ". Documents from the process. Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-8108-0021-X , pp. 84-90.
^ Heinrich Hannover : The Republic in front of the court 1975-1995. Structure, Berlin 1998/99, pp. 149–171.
↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .
↑ Ulrich K. Preuß receives honorary doctorate from the University of Bremen , press release from the University of Bremen, January 31, 2012, accessed on March 9, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Preuss, Ulrich K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Preuss, Ulrich Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	December 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marienburg (West Prussia)

[1] Ulrich K. Preuß: The attempt at a constitution for the sinking GDR - a workshop report. In: Dieter Grimm , Alexandra Kemmerer, Christoph Möllers (eds.): Rumors of law. Lectures and discussions from the Berlin seminar Law in Context. Baden-Baden 2015, pp. 49–96.

[2] Ulf G. Stuberger (Ed.): “In the criminal case against Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Jan-Carl Rapse, Gudrun Ensslin for murder and the like. a. ". Documents from the process. Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-8108-0021-X , pp. 84-90.

[3] Heinrich Hannover : The Republic in front of the court 1975-1995. Structure, Berlin 1998/99, pp. 149–171.

[4] Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .

[5] Ulrich K. Preuß receives honorary doctorate from the University of Bremen , press release from the University of Bremen, January 31, 2012, accessed on March 9, 2015.