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Gerhard Anschütz

1867 – 1948

Noted German teacher of constitutional law/leading commentator:Weimar Constitution

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Lived 1867 – 1948 (aged 81). Gerhard Anschütz was a German professor, constitutional lawyer, university teacher, author and jurist.

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 (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.

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 und 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)

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University of Tübingen, Heidelberg University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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Noted German teacher of constitutional law/leading commentator:Weimar Constitution (1867-1948)

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Gerhard Anschütz was born on 10 January 1867 in Halle (Saale).

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Gerhard Anschütz died on 14 April 1948 in Heidelberg.

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Gerhard Anschütz was a professor, constitutional lawyer, university teacher, author and jurist.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Gerhard Anschütz

· Wikidata: Q70233

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