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German jurist and educator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Gerhard Anschütz | |
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Born | |
Died | 14 April 1948 81) Heidelberg, Germany | (aged
Nationality | German |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Constitutional law |
Institutions | University of Tübingen Heidelberg University Humboldt University of Berlin |
Anschütz, a proponent of legal positivism, taught constitutional law in Tübingen (after 1899), Heidelberg (1900), Berlin (1908) and again Heidelberg (1916). 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.
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