Association for Constitutional History
| Association for Constitutional History | |
|---|---|
| purpose | Promotion of research into constitutional history and its consideration at universities |
| Chair: | Dieter Gosewinkel |
| Establishment date: | 1977 |
| Number of members: | 165 (2020) |
| Seat : | Frankfurt am Main |
The Association for Constitutional History is a legal and historical professional association . Its task is to discuss scientific questions from constitutional history , including administrative history, through presentations and debates at the assemblies, to promote research in this area and to work towards the inclusion of constitutional history in university teaching.
history
The association was founded on October 4th, 1977 . Its founding meeting took place on October 3rd and 4th, 1977 in the Evangelical Academy in Hofgeismar , North Hesse , where the association met until 2012. The conferences are usually called every two years. The establishment of the association was important for the institutionalization of the subject. Organization is just as important for the internationalization of constitutional history .
membership
The association is made up of professors in law and history, as well as archivists . The lawyers mostly come from the sub-subjects of public law and legal history . The historians are medieval or modern historians. In contrast to lawyers and historians, for whom this is the prerequisite for admission, archivists do not have to be qualified as a professor. The association has - after initially 63 (1978), now 128 (1993) and 173 (2006) - currently 165 members (February 2020). As with the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers , members can not join the association of their own accord, but can only be co-opted on the proposal of three members . The majority of the members come from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Board
The first chairman of the association has been the Berlin modern historian Dieter Gosewinkel since 2018 . Deputy board members are the constitutional lawyer Oliver Lepsius and the legal historian Peter Oestmann (both Münster). There is also a scientific advisory board with five members.
Previous chairmen were
- 1977–1981: Helmut Quaritsch , constitutional lawyer
- 1981–1985: Dietmar Willoweit , legal historian
- 1985–1989: Gerhard Dilcher , legal historian
- 1989–1993: Reinhard Mußgnug , constitutional lawyer
- 1993–1997: Wilhelm Brauneder , legal historian
- 1997–2001: Hans-Jürgen Becker , legal historian
- 2001–2006: Diethelm Klippel , legal historian
- 2006–2010: Helmut Neuhaus , early modern historian
- 2010–2014: Thomas Simon , legal historian
- 2014–2018: Christoph Schönberger , constitutional lawyer
Conference topics
- 1977: Social structures as a constitutional problem. Intermediate powers, associations, public bodies in the 18th and 19th centuries
- 1979: From the corporate society to civil equality
- 1981: Subject matter and terms of constitutional historiography
- 1983: Legislation as a factor in state development
- 1985: The creation of the constitution in the formal sense
- 1987: Res publica. Citizenship in city and state
- 1989: The administration and its resources. Investigations into their interaction
- 1991: turning marks in German constitutional history
- 1993: The emergence and change of constitutional thinking
- 1995: State Association: Promoting and Inhibiting Elements in German History
- 1997: Elections and suffrage
- 1999: Interdependencies between constitution and culture
- 2001: Compound statehood in European constitutional history
- 2003: The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 [conference in Regensburg ]
- 2006: Constitutional History in Europe
- 2008: Self-government in the history of Europe in the Middle Ages and modern times
- 2010: constitutional amendments
- 2012: Protection of the Constitution . Norms, institutions, supreme and constitutional courts
- 2014: Constitution and international law in the history of the constitution: interdependencies between international order and constitutional order [conference in Vienna ]
- 2016: Constitution and the public in constitutional history [conference on the island of Reichenau ]
- 2018: Constitution and War in Constitutional History [Conference at Hegne Monastery (Lake Constance)]
- 2020: From Reich Consciousness to Constitutional Patriotism . Togetherness through legal rules [conference in the Zeche Zollverein in Essen ]
The contributions to the conferences and the debates appear in the supplements of the magazine “ Der Staat ”.
Web links
- Ewald Grothe : Report on the 15th annual conference (2006) .
- Christoph Gusy : Constitutional History . In: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte , February 11, 2010.
- Data set from the German National Library .
- Publications in the SWB library catalog .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ewald Grothe : Between history and law. German constitutional historiography 1900–1970 , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2005 (= Order Thinking , Vol. 16), p. 41 f.