Werner Frotscher

Werner Frotscher (born September 20, 1937 in Kiel ) is a German legal scholar and constitutional lawyer .

Life

Frotscher studied law at the Universities of Kiel and Freiburg from 1957 to 1961 and graduated in 1962 with the first state examination. In 1964 he was at the University of Kiel in Christian-Friedrich Menger with his work The demarcation of the Great Senate of the top federal courts from the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court under Art. 100 para. 1 sentence 1 of the Basic Law, particularly in constitutional interpretation in conformity with the Dr. iur. PhD . After passing the second state examination in 1967 and working as a research assistant at Georg-Christoph von Unruh's chair for public law at the University of Kiel from 1968 to 1974, he received his habilitation there in February 1974 with the text Government as a legal concept and a trial lecture on the subject "The design of communal usage conditions when connection and use are compulsory"; he was awarded the Venia legendi for public law.

After Visiting Professor at the Universities of Heidelberg and Kiel Frotscher received in 1976 a reputation as a university professor at the University of Hohenheim ; from 1979 to 1983 he was managing director of the Institute for Law. From 1983 until his retirement in September 2005 he was full professor for public law at the Philipps University of Marburg . From 1997 to 1999 he was dean and vice dean of the law faculty at the Philipps University of Marburg. He was also visiting professor at the University of Kent in Canterbury (1989), at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1991–1992) and at the University of Poitiers (1995).

In addition, Frotscher was a judge at the Hessian Administrative Court from 1987 to 1994 .

Werner Frotscher was involved in the Historical Commission for Hesse and the Legal Committee of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .

Frotscher's students include Uwe Volkmann , University of Frankfurt am Main , and Urs Kramer , University of Passau .

Act

Frotscher's academic focus is on fundamental questions of constitutional law, constitutional and administrative history , public commercial law and local law .

Frotscher has published numerous publications. He is best known to students for his case book on economic constitutional and economic administrative law as well as the short textbook Constitutional History , which was created together with Bodo Pieroth .

Work (selection)

• with Bodo Pieroth : Constitutional History . Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-41911-9 (18th, revised edition. Ibid 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-74014-5 ).
• (from the 4th edition with Urs Kramer , from the 7th edition continued by him alone): Economic constitution and economic administrative law. A systematic introduction on the basis of basic cases (= series of legal training courses. Vol. 103). Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-33226-9 (7th, revised and supplemented edition. Ibid 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-71123-7 ).
• Struggle for the constitutional state. Constitutional changes in the time of the German Confederation. In: Helmut Neuhaus (ed.): Constitutional changes (= Der Staat. Supplement 20). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-428-13687-2 , pp. 89-116.
• The Federal Council principle - “good, German” constitutional tradition? In: Peter Baumeister, Wolfgang Roth, Josef Ruthig (Hrsg.): State, administration and legal protection. Festschrift for Wolf-Rüdiger Schenke's 70th birthday (= publications on public law. Vol. 1196). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-428-13468-7 , pp. 167-183.
• The Electoral Hesse constitution of 1831 in the constitutional system of the German Confederation. In: Journal for Modern Legal History . Vol. 30, 2008, pp. 45-64.
• “Big Brother” and German broadcasting law. A constitutional investigation into the question of whether the "Big Brother" format violates the programming principles laid down in Section 41 (1) of the State Broadcasting Treaty (RStV), Section 13 (1) of the Hessian Private Broadcasting Act (HPRG) (= series of publications by the LPR Hessen. Vol . 12). KoPäd-Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-934079-32-6 .
• Trade law. In: Reiner Schmidt (Ed.): Public commercial law. Special part. Volume 1. Springer, Berlin et al. 1995, ISBN 3-540-58630-X , pp. 1–110.
• Direct democracy in the Weimar constitution. In: German administrative gazette . 1989, pp. 541-549.
• The party-state democracy - signs of crisis and future prospects. In: German administrative gazette. 1985, pp. 917-927.
• The professional civil service in the democratic state. (= Series of publications by the Sankelmark Academy, New Volume 28. ). 1975.

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Frotscher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Some life data on the homepage of the University of Hohenheim , where Frotscher was professor for public law from 1976 to 1983. [1]