Gerhard Anschütz

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Gerhard Anschütz (10 January 1867 in Halle (Saale) - 14 April 1948 in Heidelberg) was a noted German teacher of constitutional law and the leading commentator of the Weimar Constitution. His principal work (with Richard Thoma) is the two-volume legal encyclopedia Handbuch des deutschen Staatsrechts; his constitutional commentary saw 14 editions during the Weimar Republic.

Anschütz, a proponent of legal positivism, taught constitutional law in Tübingen (after 1899), Heidelberg (1900), Berlin (1908) and again Heidelberg (1908). A Democrat by conviction even during World War I, he resigned his teaching position in 1933 after the Nazis seized power. After World War II, he served as a consultant to the US military government and in this position was one of the fathers of the constitution of the Bundesland Hesse.

[edit] Selected literature

  • Georg Meyer, Lehrbuch des Deutschen Staatsrechts, bearbeitet von Gerhard Anschütz, 6. Auflage, Leipzig, 1905
  • Gerhard Anschütz: Rezension von Hugo Preuß: Das deutsche Volk und die Politik, in: Preußische Jahrbücher, S. 164, 1916
  • Gerhard Anschütz / Richard Thoma (Hrsg.): Handbuch des deutschen Staatsrechts, 2 Bände, Tübingen 1932.
  • Gerhard Anschütz: Die Verfassung des Deutschen Reiches vom 11. August 1919. Ein Kommentar für Wissenschaft und Praxis, 14. Aufl., Berlin 1933
  • Gerhard Anschütz, Aus meinen Leben. Erinnerungen von Gerhard Anschütz, herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Walter Pauly, Frankfurt/Main (1993)

[edit] Further reading

  • Ernst Forsthoff, Gerhard Anschütz, Der Staat 6, 1967
  • Horst Dreier, Ein Staatsrechtslehrer in Zeiten des Umbruchs: Gerhard Anschütz (1867–1948), in: ZNR 20 (1998) S. 28–48
  • Walter Pauly, Gerhard Anschütz. An Introduction, in: Arthur Jacobson and Bernhard Schlink (Ed.): Weimar, A Jurisprudence of Crisis, 2001

[edit] References

  • Pauly, Walter (2001). "Gerhard Anschütz", in Michael Stolleis (ed.): Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, 2nd edition (in German), München: Beck, 36. ISBN 3406 45957 9. 
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