Hans F. Zacher

Hans F. Zacher ( born June 22, 1928 in Erlach am Inn, Lower Bavaria ) is a German legal scholar. He is Emeritus Professor of Public Law, especially German and Bavarian Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich and director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law. From 1990 to 1996 he was President of the Max Planck Society.

Life

After studying law in Bamberg, Erlangen and Munich Hans F. Zacher passed the state law in 1951 and 1955, while he completed his doctorate in 1952. His doctor father was the constitutional and administrative Hans Nawiasky. From 1955 to 1963 he worked in the Bavarian interior administration and courts (Bavarian Administrative Court, Constitutional Court ). In 1962 he qualified as a professor and was appointed a full professor of constitutional, administrative and ecclesiastical law at the University of the Saarland, where he taught from 1963 to 1971. In 1971 he was appointed to the Faculty of Law, University of Munich and taught public law. He retired in 1996.

From 1975 to 1980 he was also appointed director of the Max Planck Project Group for International and Comparative Social Law; 1980-1992 Director of the resulting from it the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law.

From 1990 to 1996 he was President of the Max Planck Society. Since then Zacher is director emeritus of the Institute and an honorary member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society. Since 1997 he is a member of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

Zacher was co-founder and Honorary Chairman of the German Social Law Association. In 1981 he was elected as a member of the Philosophy and History Class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He is also since 1994 a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in Rome and since 1990 a member of the Academia Europaea.

Hans F. Zacher has authored numerous publications in the field of German, comparative, European and international social law, social policy, to constitutional law, business law, legal research and research policy as well as to church and state. He was and is engaged in policy advice ( Social Code Commission, Age Assurance Committee, Scientific since 1967 Advisory Council to the Federal Ministry of Economics ), in consultation of social institutions (among board of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare ) and in other European and international organizations ( inter alia, a founding member of the European Institute of Social Security, a member of the International Board Advidory the International Council on social Welfare ).

Awards and honors

Works (selection)

  • Essays on Social Law II Edited by Ulrich Becker / Franz Ruland. Heidelberg 2008.
  • Six decades of legal history. In: Martin Huber / Gerhard Lauer ( ed.), Science and the university. Self-portrait of a generation. Wolfgang Frühwald 70th birthday, 2005, pp. 95-144.
  • Democracy in Debate. The Contribution of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences ( 2005).
  • The social state objective. In: Handbook of constitutional law of the Federal Republic of Germany. Edited by Josef Isensee / Kirchhof Paul. Vol 1, Heidelberg, 1987, pp. 1045-1111; Revision in: Handbook of constitutional law. Volume II constitutional state. Edited by Josef Isensee / Paul Kirchhof, Heidelberg 2004, pp. 659-784.
  • Fundamentals of social policy in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: History of social policy in Germany since 1945 Published by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs / Federal Archives. . Vol 1: Foundations of Social Policy, Baden -Baden 2001, pp. 333-684.
  • Research, society and polity. Legal Research Society Karlsruhe, Issue 208 of Heidelberg in 1993.
  • Essays on social law. Edited by Bernd Baron von Maydell / Eberhard Eichenhofer. Heidelberg 1993.
  • Introduction to the social laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. Heidelberg, 1st edition 1983, 2nd edition 1983, 3rd edition 1985.
  • Social policy and constitution in the first decade of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin 1980.
  • Social comparison in the right frame of reference international and supranational law. Colloquium of the Project Group for International and Comparative Social Law of the Max Planck Society. Series of International and Comparative Social Law, Vol 2 Berlin 1978.
  • Methodological problems of social comparative law. Colloquium of the Project Group for International and Comparative Social Law of the Max Planck Society. Series of International and Comparative Social Law, Vol 1, Berlin 1977.
  • International and European social law. A collection of the global and European international law and supranational sources and documents. Percha 1976.
  • Materials for Social Code, loose-leaf. Percha 1974-1979.
  • Report on the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany Business Law. Competition series - Approximation of laws, Issue 20, Brussels 1973; = Rapport sur ​​le droit économique en république fédérale d' Allemagne. Série Concurrence - Rapprochement of legislations, No. 20, Bruxelles 1973.
  • Liberal democracy. History and State, Vol 139/140. Munich / Vienna 1969.
  • Plurality of society as a legal-political task. In: The State, Vol 9 ( 1970), pp. 161-186.
Bavarian Order of Merit Harnack medal Peter Lerche Carl Bosch Otto Hahn Adolf Butenandt Heinz Staab Hubert Markl Peter Gruss Integrated Authority File
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