Wilfried Fiedler (legal scholar)
Wilfried Fiedler (born December 22, 1940 in Hohenstadt, Moravia ) is a German legal scholar .
Life
Fiedler attended the drawing school in Frankfurt am Main from 1951 to high school graduation in 1960 . He then studied law and was awarded a doctorate in January 1970 at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on state continuity. iur. PhD . In 1976 he completed his habilitation thesis on the function and importance of public law commitments in administrative law.
He then worked as a professor at Kiel University from 1977 to 1984 , where he was director of the Institute for International Law (since 1995: Walther Schücking Institute for International Law ). In 1984 he accepted a professorship for constitutional, administrative and international law at Saarland University , where he worked until his retirement in 2002. In addition, Fiedler was a lecturer at the University of Zurich in 1996 and 1999 .
Fiedler published many papers on the legal situation of the German Reich after 1945 and generally on state continuity and state succession . Since the mid-1980s, he has been increasingly concerned with the law of international cultural property protection; In 1986 he founded the research center “Protection and Return of Cultural Goods in Applicable International Law”, and from 1993 onwards he headed the German law section of the Joint German-Russian Commission for the Mutual Return of Cultural Goods .
Honors
In November 1979 Fiedler was appointed to the humanities class of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts .
In January 2007 Fiedler was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon .
Works
Books
- State continuity and constitutional jurisprudence. On the concept of the continuity of the German state, with special consideration of the case law of the Federal Constitutional Court. Carl Alber, Freiburg [a. a.] 1970, zugl. Diss., Univ. Freiburg i. Br. 1970, ISBN 3-495-47208-8 .
- Function and significance of public law commitments in administrative law. Heidelberg 1977, plus Habil. Writing, Univ. Freiburg 1976, ISBN 3-8114-2877-2 .
- The continuity problem in international law. Karl Alber, Freiburg 1984, ISBN 978-3-495-47403-7 .
- as editor: Constitutional law and international law. Commemorative writing for Wilhelm Karl Geck. Carl Heymanns, Cologne / Berlin / Bonn / Munich 1989, ISBN 3-452-21362-5 .
- Cultural goods as spoils of war? Legal problems of the repatriation of German cultural goods from Russia. CF Müller, Heidelberg 1995 (= Heidelberger Forum , Volume 95), ISBN 978-3-8114-9695-8 .
Essays
- Constitutional and international law problems of the end of the state , in: ZfP 1973, pp. 170–178.
- On the scope of the clausula rebus sic stantibus in administrative law , in: Verwaltungsarchiv 67 (1976), pp. 125–155.
- The limits of the “Germany theories ” and the importance of state practice , in: ZfP 1983, pp. 366–383.
- The international law continuity problem and the special questions of the legal situation in Germany , in: Boris Meissner / Gottfried Zieger (ed.): State continuity with special consideration of the legal situation in Germany , Cologne 1983, pp. 9–24.
- Material rule of law and social homogeneity. On the 50th anniversary of Hermann Heller's death , in: JZ 1984, pp. 201–211.
- Four power responsibility without a peace treaty? , in: NJW 1985, pp. 1049-1055.
- The constitutional and international legal position of the Federal Republic of Germany according to the Teso decision of the Federal Constitutional Court , in: JZ 1988, pp. 132-138.
- The return of the Saarland to Germany - experiences for the relationship between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR? State and international law considerations , in: JZ 1990, pp. 668–675.
- The continuity of the German state system in 1990. On the impact of international law on constitutional situations , in: AVR 31 (1993), pp. 333–352.
- The time factor in the law of the state succession , in: Herbert Haller (Hrsg.): State and law. Festschrift for Günther Winkler , Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-211-83024-3 , pp. 217-236.
Individual proof
- ↑ International protection of cultural property - viewed under international law. On: Spektrum.de from August 1, 1996, last viewed on June 10, 2020.
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SURNAME | Fiedler, Wilfried |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hohenstadt, Moravia |