Walter Henrich

Walter Henrich (born April 18, 1888 in Sibiu , Transylvania , † May 8, 1955 in Würzburg ) was a ministerial official and legal scholar .

Life

His twin brother was the writer Gustav Henrich . Walter Henrich attended the German Protestant grammar school in Sibiu. After graduating from high school in 1906, he studied law and political science at the University of Cluj-Napoca (Transylvania) and the University of Vienna . In 1910 he was at the University Klausberg with a thesis on the Philosophy of the credit to Dr. rer. pole. and in 1911 with the dissertation on the application of the right to Dr. jur. PhD.

He then started working for the Central Bank of the German Savings Banks in Vienna. From 1914 he was a scientific official in the law and political sciences section of the Imperial and Royal Court Library in Vienna . In 1917 he was parallel at Vienna University with a thesis on the relationship between law, morality and society, considered from the point of view of philosophy for Dr. phil. PhD. In 1919 he became Ministerial Secretary in the Ministry of Social Administration in Vienna, where he was responsible for social insurance .

1922 followed the habilitation with Hans Kelsen at the University of Vienna and the private lectureship for legal philosophy and general political theory . In 1928 he received an appointment as an associate professor (from 1935 full professor) for law at the German Technical University in Brno . In 1936 he became a full professor at the Technical University in Prague . Due to organizational restructuring in 1942 he had to leave his chair and was instead on a regular professorship for Public Law appointed. After he was released in 1945, he was classified in 1948 as a “ fellow traveler ”.

He then received a teaching position at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . A year later, he was Associate Professor of State - and administrative law . In 1953, he succeeded Wilhelm Laforet as professor for general, German and Bavarian constitutional and administrative law. In 1954 he was retired; his successor was Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte .

Fonts (selection)

• About the Concept of Credit (1910)
• On the application of the law (1911)
• The Relationship Between Law Morality and Society (1917)
• State territory theory (1922)
• State territory and sovereignty (1925)
• Critique of Territorial Theories (1926)
• The international and constitutional regulation of the protection of national, religious and racial minorities (1933)
• On the problem of customary law (1935)

literature

• Christopher Benkert: The Law Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1914 to 1960. Education and science under the sign of the two world wars (= Würzburg jurisprudential writings . Vol. 62). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-89913-481-8 , pp. 170-173.
• Peter Goller : Natural Law, Legal Philosophy or Legal Theory ?. On the history of legal philosophy at Austrian universities (1848–1945) (= legal and social science series . Vol. 18). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-631-32271-2 , pp. 250-254.
• Bettina Perthold-Stoitzner: Walter Henrich . In: Robert Walter, Clemens Jabloner , Klaus Zeleny (eds.): The circle around Hans Kelsen. The early years of pure legal theory (= series of publications by the Hans Kelsen Institute . Vol. 30). Manz, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-214-07676-4 , pp. 135-144.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Henrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Walter Henrich  in the German Digital Library