Ulrich Scheuner

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Ulrich Scheuner (* 24. December 1903 in Dusseldorf , † 25. February 1981 in Bonn ) was a German national and Staatskirchenrechtler . His work has influenced these areas of law.

Life

Scheuner was born as the son of Karl Scheuner (1857–1934, Vice President of the Government) and his wife Hedwig Emmi von Staff (1879–1960) and completed his habilitation as a student of Rudolf Smend and Heinrich Triepel in 1928 at the University of Berlin with a legal thesis entitled Der The rule of law in the Weimar Constitution . In 1933 he received a full professorship for public law at the University of Jena . On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP . After an intermezzo at the University of Göttingen in 1940/41, he was appointed to the newly founded Reich University of Strasbourg in 1941 in occupied Alsace .

In the journal Archives of public law , he published in 1934 (NS, Volume 24, 1933-34) a major essay entitled "The national revolution . A constitutional investigation ”. There he described the National Socialist " seizure of power " as a specifically German form of revolution. He affirmed the legitimacy and legality of the process, in particular the Reichstag Fire Decree of 28 February 1933 and the Enabling Act of March 23, 1933. It states that it is turning away from the principles of a liberal constitutional state Weimar embossing. Scheuner decidedly approved of this in the article. The Nazism was the overcoming of individualism by emphasizing the community and people thought . Scheuner emphasized the deepening understanding of the forces at work in the people of blood origin and saw the national unity of the people established through the idea of ​​people and race. Scheuner thus placed himself on the ground of the National Socialist racial ideology .

After the defeat of the National Socialist German Reich , Scheuner worked at the central office of the Evangelical Relief Organization in Stuttgart from 1947 to 1949 . From 1950 until his retirement in 1972 he worked at the University of Bonn . In addition to his academic work, he acted as a litigator for federal and state governments, as legal advisor to both large churches and as chairman of the federal government's party law commission. One of his works is the two-volume handbook of the State Church Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, published in 1974/75 together with Ernst Friesenhahn (2nd edition in 1994 by Joseph Listl and Dietrich Pirson).

Works - a selection

  • The European balance and British maritime domination . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1944.
  • The majority principle in democracy . Lectures. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1973, ISBN 3-531-07191-2 .
  • The United Nations as a factor in international politics . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1976, ISBN 3-531-07210-2 .
  • The control of state power in the democratic state. The limitation of power in the constitutional order of the Federal Republic of Germany . Lower Saxony. State Center for Polit. Education, Hanover 1977.
  • Christian Tomuschat (Ed.): Writings on international law. Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-428-05608-6 .

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  1. ↑ from 1933 a Nazi publishing house
personal data
SURNAME Scheuner, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German constitutional and church lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1981
Place of death Bonn