»Eine Universität für Juristen und von Juristen«

In his study, the author describes the special position of the Faculty of Law in the history of the University of Heidelberg. After a period of decline, the university rose like a phoenix from the ashes when it was transferred to Baden in 1803. Owing to a wise hiring policy, the Faculty of Law regained its former glory and contributed substantially to Heidelberg's attractiveness as a place to study in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is surprising that after the old monarchal system was overthrown in 1918/19 the majority of the legal scholars in Heidelberg supported the Weimar Constitution. In 1933, Jewish professors and professors with Jewish wives, such as Leopold Perels, an historian of law and Ernst Levy, a teacher of Romance languages and literature, were dismissed. The faculty reopened quickly after the end of the war, and the author concludes his study with the decree of the constitutional regulations of the university in 1969.