Julius Binder

Julius Binder ( born May 12, 1870 in Würzburg, † August 28, 1939 in Göttingen ) was a German philosopher of law.

Life

After studying law in Würzburg with a doctorate ( 1894) and Habilitation ( 1898) he became a professor in Rostock ( 1900), Erlangen (1903 ), Würzburg (1913) and Göttingen ( 1919). He founded the International Hegel federal government and was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

After he had resorted in previous works on the legal concept of Immanuel Kant ( as listed in: legal concept and idea of ​​law from 1915 ), he later became a outspoken critic of neo-Kantian philosophy of law, in particular the philosophy of law Rudolf Stammler. Since the twenties of the twentieth century represented Julius Binder - as well as later Karl Larenz, Gerhard Dulckeit and Walther Schönfeld - a neuhegelianischen jurisprudential approach, the system of the so-called lenses idealism. Binder was the academic teacher of the German legal philosopher and civil law expert Karl Larenz. The legal positivism he refused.

In addition, Binder applies as Carl Schmitt, Karl Larenz or Ernst Forsthoff to the legal philosopher, the Nazi legal system not only did not criticize, but tried to actively support through their ideas. Before the Nazi "seizure of power " Binder had with ao Max Pohlenz, Ludwig Prandtl, Hermann Thiersch, Hugo Willrich and Hermann Kees belongs to a group of Göttingen professors, published on March 8th and 11th of the year to celebrate the upcoming Prussian municipal elections in Göttingen Tageblatt choice calls for the battlefront Black -White-Red had signed. On April 5, 1933, Binder was then as members of the NSDAP enroll ( Mitglieds-Nr. 3551565 ). He was also a member of the Committee on Legal Philosophy in the Academy of German Law under Hans Frank.

After the end of World War II binder writing The German nation state ( Mohr, Tübingen, 1934) was set in the Soviet zone of occupation on the list of proscribed literature. In the German Democratic Republic followed up on this list still be 28th June and the war guilt question (H. Beyer & Söhne, Langensalza 1929).

Since 1890 he was a member of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg.

Writings (selection )

  • The problem of the Legal Personality (1907).
  • Legal concept and idea of ​​law, Leipzig 1915.
  • Philosophy of Right, Berlin 1925.
  • Foundations of the Philosophy of Right, Tübingen 1935.
  • System of legal philosophy, Berlin, 1937.
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