Wolfgang Weichelt

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Wolfgang Weichelt (born  April 9, 1929 in Chemnitz , †  June 25, 1993 in Berlin ) was a German political scientist with a Marxist-Leninist character. In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1964 he was professor for constitutional and legal theory and constitutional law at the German Academy for Political and Legal Science in Potsdam and from 1972 to 1990 as director of the Academy's Institute for Theory of the State and Law of the sciences of the GDR with headquarters in Berlin-Mitte .

Life

Wolfgang Weichelt was born in Chemnitz in 1929 and initially worked as a farm worker after graduating from school. He completed an administrative training from 1946 and then worked as a clerk at the City Council of Chemnitz. In the same year he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1950 he studied at the German Administrative Academy , later the German Academy for Political Science and Law (DASR), where he graduated in 1953 with a degree in political science. After an apprenticeship at Lomonossow University in Moscow , he received his doctorate in 1956.

He then worked from 1956 to 1959 as a research assistant at the Institute for Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg and then at the Central Committee of the SED in the department for state and legal issues. In 1964 he became professor of constitutional and legal theory and constitutional law at the DASR, where he also headed the Institute for Legal Research until 1966. From 1966 to 1972 he was again a research assistant at the Central Committee of the SED. From 1972 he acted as director of the newly founded Institute for Theory of the State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , based in Berlin-Mitte . After the political change in the GDR, Karl-Heinz Röder was elected as his successor in March 1990 . Wolfgang Weichelt was disabled in the same year and died in Berlin in 1993.

Act

Focus of scientific activity by Wolfgang Weichelt was the Marxist-Leninist embossed heads of state and constitutional theory of socialism in the GDR. He was significantly involved in the drafting of the constitution of the GDR from 1968 and was a member of the People's Chamber from 1967 to 1990 , of which he chaired the constitutional and legal committee. In addition, in 1971 he became a member of the GDR Committee for European Security and Cooperation, which served to prepare the CSCE , and in 1977 he was Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Parliamentary, Legal and Human Rights Issues at the Interparliamentary Union .

Awards

Wolfgang Weichelt was a corresponding member from 1977 and a full member from 1985 of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. In addition, from 1979 he belonged to the Académie internationale de droit comparé (Academy for Comparative Law) in Paris and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . In 1989 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold and in 1988 an honorary doctorate from the Academy for Law and Political Science of the GDR in Potsdam.

Works (selection)

  • as co-editor: Constitution of the GDR: documents, commentary. Berlin 1969.
  • The socialist state - the main instrument of the working class in shaping socialist society. Berlin 1972.
  • as co-editor: Marxist-Leninist state and legal theory. Berlin 1980.
  • The state in the political system of the GDR. Berlin 1986.
  • as editor: On the effectiveness and effectiveness of socialist law. Berlin 1988.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung . 29./30. April 1989, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Weichelt, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and politician (SED), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1993
Place of death Berlin