Werner Heun

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Werner Heun (born September 25, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 20, 2017 in Göttingen ) was a German legal scholar .

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Werner Heun attended the Georgii-Gymnasium Esslingen from 1964 to 1972 , where he passed the Abitur. From 1972 to 1977 he studied law at the Universities of Lausanne and Würzburg . He passed his state exams in 1977 and 1980. Following his legal clerkship, Heun worked briefly as a research assistant with Martin Kriele at the University of Cologne . From 1980 to 1983 he was a research assistant to Klaus Schlaich at the Canon Law Institute of the University of Bonn and at the same time a freelancer in a law firm. In 1983 Heun joined Georg Brunner in Würzburg with the work The majority principle in democracy. Fundamentals - Structure - Limitations PhD . From 1983 to 1989 Heun worked at the University of Bonn as a university assistant to Klaus Schlaich. There he completed his habilitation in 1988 with the text State Budget and State Management. Budget law in the parliamentary system of government of the Basic Law .

In the 1988/89 winter semester, Heun held a professorship for public law at the University of Cologne , and in the 1989 summer semester at Bielefeld University . In the following two semesters, he was a professor at the University of Hamburg . From December 1990 until his death in 2017, Heun was a professor at the University of Göttingen , and since August 1991 director of the Institute for General Political Science and Political Science there. In 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. In 2013 Heun was appointed a member of the Lower Saxony State Court in Bückeburg . Since 2012 he has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

Fonts (selection)

  • The majority principle in democracy. Basics - Structure - Limitations. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983.
  • State administration and budget. Budget law in the parliamentary system of government of the Basic Law. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1989.
  • The constitutional order of the Federal Republic of Germany. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2012.
  • Constitution and constitutional jurisdiction in comparison. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014.
  • Co-editor with Frank Schorkopf : turning points in jurisprudence. Aspects of law in modern times . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1449-8 .

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  1. ↑ Press release of the OVG Lüneburg 11/2013 from March 14, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Heun, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 2017
Place of death Goettingen