Willibalt Apelt

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Hans Willibalt Apelt (born October 18, 1877 in Löbau , † June 16, 1965 in Graefelfing near Munich ) was a German full university professor , constitutional law teacher and politician ( DDP) . From 1927 to 1929 he was Saxon State Minister of the Interior .

Life

Apelt was the son of the lawyer Karl Alexander Apelt ( Ministerial Director , Privy Councilor , Dr. jur.) And Antonie Apelt, née Heyer. Ernst Friedrich Apelt , professor of philosophy at the University of Jena, was his grandfather. After studying law, Apelt entered the Saxon administrative service and was a member of the government council in the Leipzig administrative authority from 1915 to 1918 and a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig . In 1918 he co-founded the German Democratic Party (DDP) in Saxony and worked 1918/19 as an employee of Hugo Preuss in the Reich Office of the Interior . In 1919, Apelt took over the university department as ministerial director in the Saxon Ministry of Culture and Public Education . In 1920 he was Full Professor of Public Law at the University of Leipzig appointed . In 1925 Apelt became a full honorary professor at the University of Leipzig. After leaving the office of the Saxon Minister of the Interior (see below), he returned to his chair in 1929 .

In 1933 Apelt retired from the National Socialists because of his commitment to democracy and the Weimar Republic . This happened, among other things, at the instigation of the just hired National Socialist university advisor in the Saxon Ministry of Education, Heinrich Lange (lawyer) . After the end of National Socialism , retirement was withdrawn. From 1946 to 1952 Apelt taught as a full professor for constitutional law , political theory and administrative law at the University of Munich .

Apelt's favorite pastimes were music and singing . He was married.

Public offices

From 1927 to 1929 Apelt was Saxon State Minister of the Interior .

Services

Apelt worked on the formulation of the Weimar Constitution and later, as Saxon Minister of the Interior, on the reform of the Reich . He made important contributions to the reorganization of constitutional law; among other things he published reflections on the Bonn Basic Law .

Fonts

  • Lawyer in the changing forms of government. Life memories . Mohr, Tübingen 1965.
  • On the concept of federalism . In: About law and justice . Ceremony for Erich Kaufmann on his 70th birthday, September 21, 1950. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1950.
  • The legislative technique . Presentation and contributions to the discussion at the working conference of the University of Political Sciences with members of the Bundestag and Bavarian State Parliament on August 23, 1950. Isar-Verlag, Munich 1950.
  • Hegelian power state or Kantian cosmopolitanism . Lecture given at the University of Munich in November 1947. Leibniz, Munich 1948.
  • History of the Weimar Constitution . Biederstein, Munich 1946.
  • The course of the administration in the empire and the states . Lecture on "Alignment of organization and procedures in the administration of the Reich and the Länder". Teubner, Leipzig 1929.
  • From state to regional state. Considerations on the draft law on the final Reich Economic Council . Hobbing, Berlin 1927.
  • The administrative contract . Felix Meiner Verlag, Leipzig 1920.
  • Basics of Saxon building law . Roßberg, Leipzig 1914.

See also

literature

  • Peter Gleißner: The Apelts. Path and breadth of an exile family. In: Upper Lusatia and Saxony in Central Europe. Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Karlheinz Blaschke , ed. by Martin Schmidt. Görlitz-Zittau 2003, pp. 92–119.
  • Theodor Maunz / Hans Nawiasky / Johannes Heckel (eds.): State and citizens . Festschrift for Willibalt Apelt on his 80th birthday. CH Beck, Munich 1958.
  • Dian Schefold : Willibalt Apelt and the Weimar constitutional heritage . In: Detlef Lehnert (Ed.): Verfassungsdenker. Germany and Austria 1870–1970 , Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2017 (= Historische Demokratieforschung , 11), pp. 219–237.

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personal data
SURNAME Apelt, Willibalt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apelt, Willibald; Apelt, Hans Willibalt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, politician (DDP) and Minister of State
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Löbau ( Saxony )
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1965
Place of death Graefelfing near Munich