Ulrich Karpen

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Ulrich Karpen (* 9. August 1938 in Gdansk ) is a German politician of the CDU , former member of the Hamburg Parliament and Emeritus Professor of Law in Hamburg .

Life and work

Ulrich Karpen was founded in 1968 from the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne Dr. jur. doctorate, and from 1968 to 1971 an assistant position to the rector of this university followed. 1973 followed a study at the Pennsylvania State University .

He received a scholarship 1978/1979 of the German Research Foundation and in 1981 the venia legendi for Heads of State and Administrative Law by the Faculty of Law of the University of Cologne. From 1981 to 1983 teaching activities at the universities of Freiburg , Cologne , Würzburg and Berlin followed . Since 1982 he has been working as a professor at the law faculty of the University of Hamburg and director of the research center for cultural constitutional and administrative law. He has held visiting professorships in Sydney , Southampton , Santiago de Chile and Caracas . His academic work focuses on legislative theory and parliamentarianism , cultural constitutional and administrative law, general administrative law as well as foreign and comparative constitutional law .

In addition to his job, Ulrich Karpen was chairman of the German Society for Legislation from 1987 to 2007 and chairman of the European Association of Legislation (today: International Association of Legislation ) from 1991 to 2007 , where he is still a member of the board (as of 2012). In addition, from 1975 to 1977 he was a member of the executive board of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and chairman of the jury for the award of the German Bundestag's science prize for work on parliamentarianism.

politics

Ulrich Karpen was a member of the Hamburg parliament for the CDU from 1991 to October 2001. He was a member of the Committee for Science and Research as well as chairman of the Parliament's Legal Committee.

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 .

Publications (selection)

  • Carl Peters entry from 2001 about the participant in the resistance against Hitler in the New German Biography 2001, available online, last on December 3, 2014.
  • The Basic Law as an "export article" . Mauke, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-931518-33-7 . Notes: Contributions partly Chinese, partly German, partly English, partly French partly Greek, partly Italian, partly Polish, partly Portuguese, partly Russian, partly Spanish, partly Czech, partly Turkish - references. Languages ​​German, Chinese, English, French.
  • The Kreisau Circle: on the constitutional ideas of men of the resistance around Helmuth James Graf von Moltke . Edited by Ulrich Karpen and Andreas Schott. Müller, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8114-2096-8 .

literature

  • Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. 14th electoral term , editor Hinnerk Fock , Hamburg 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Call for the right to vote: "Verkleinert den Bundestag" , open letter from September 20, 2019 in Die Welt .
personal data
SURNAME Karpen, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig