Hans Georg Rupp

Hans Georg Rupp (born 30 August 1907 in Stuttgart, † September 14, 1989 in Münsingen ) was a German legal scholars, judges of the Constitutional Court and a member of the Consultative Assembly of the country's land Württemberg -Hohenzollern.

Life

Childhood and training time

Year career in the Third Reich

1941 Rupp was also admitted as a lawyer at the District Court. This was initially denied him due to lack of membership in the NSDAP, but was granted despite the absence of party membership. In addition, he held the summer semester 1943 to winter semester 1944/45, a substitute, the lectures on civil law and commercial law at the University of Jena. In early 1945, his home was destroyed.

Parliamentarians and government officials in Württemberg

Also his scientific activity he continued after the war he was appointed lecturer at the University of Tübingen in 1946 and incorporated in 1947 as a scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.

Judges of the Federal Constitutional Court

After 1970 the Constitutional judges the legal possibility offered to publish a dissenting opinion in dissent, made Rupp several times to use this option. When listening judgment he represented together with Gregor Geller and Fabian von Schlabrendorff against the Senate majority considered that the newly added Article 10 paragraph 2 sentence 2 GGVorlage: § § / Maintenance / juris - page is not compatible with the eternity clause of the Basic Law. Also in the second broadcast decision he made together with Geller from a dissenting opinion, because although in the result, but not mittrug the decision on the grounds. His expressed together with Martin Hirsch and Walter seuffert dissenting opinion on a decision that had a partiality request of the Bavarian government against the Basic Treaty participating in the judgment Judge Joachim Rottmann the subject, scored on a sharp tone. It said some views of the majority opinion, they lay " beyond the scope of acceptable jurisdiction."

The University of Tübingen appointed him in 1955 as honorary professor. 1963 and 1970 he lectured three months as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan.

Retired

After his departure from the Judicial Service, he taught for a few months European Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago. The death of his wife in 1977 prompted him to retreat to his home in Münsingen. Karlsruhe he entered only once. He now devoted himself to art, literature and ancient history and traveled widely, including to China and Egypt. Rupp died in 1989 at the age of 82 years by a stroke and was buried in Reutlingen.