Law

Hugo Preuß

Gesammelte Schriften

Erster bis fünfter Band
im Auftrag der Hugo-Preuß-Gesellschaft e.V., hrsg. v. Detlef Lehnert u. Christoph Müller

2015. LV, 4078 pages.
424,00 €
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cloth
ISBN 978-3-16-154459-0
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Published in German.
In the history of the German constitution and German democracy, Hugo Preuß has still not been given the place he deserves alongside Otto von Gierke, Georg Jellinek, Max Weber and Hans Kelsen. The collapse of the Weimar Republic, whose constitution was based on a draft he made, overshadowed his life's work.

The time has come to increase our awareness of him as an outstanding democratic scholar, as an expert in constitutional and administrative law, as a constitutional historian, political scientist, local politician, journalist and as a politician in Germany and to engage in a serious discussion of his copious work, which is largely unknown.

His collected works, which are being published with the support of the German Bundestag, document a 40-year struggle to enable the adaptation of the German constitution to the developments in Western Europe. This was ultimately successful, even though it was belated and was preceded by major catastrophes.
In the history of the German constitution and German democracy, Hugo Preuß has still not been given the place he deserves alongside Otto von Gierke, Georg Jellinek, Max Weber and Hans Kelsen. The collapse of the Weimar Republic, whose constitution was based on a draft he made, overshadowed his life's work.

The time has come to increase our awareness of him as an outstanding democratic scholar, as an expert in constitutional and administrative law, as a constitutional historian, political scientist, local politician, journalist and as a politician in Germany and to engage in a serious discussion of his copious work, which is largely unknown.

His collected works, which are being published with the support of the German Bundestag, document a 40-year struggle to enable the adaptation of the German constitution to the developments in Western Europe. This was ultimately successful, even though it was belated and was preceded by major catastrophes.
Authors/Editors

Hugo Preuß (1860–1925) 1918 Staatssekretär des Innern, Entwurf der Weimarer Reichsverfassung; 1919 erster Reichsinnenminister, Rücktritt mit dem Kabinett Scheidemann wegen der Bedingungen des Versailler Friedensvertrages; 1920 Abgeordneter des Preußischen Landtags für die DDP.

Lothar Albertin (1924–2018). Professor emeritus für Zeitgeschichte und Politische Wissenschaft an der Universität Bielefeld.

Detlef Lehnert ist Professor für Poltikwissenschaft an der Freien Universität Berlin und Präsident der Hugo-Preuß-Stiftung.

Christoph Müller ist emeritierter Professor für Staatsrecht und Politik am Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft der FU Berlin.

Dian Schefold ist emeritierter Professor für Rechtswissenschaft an der Universität Bremen.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Revista de Administracion Publica — 2017, 496–500 (Francisco Sosa Wagner)
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