Konrad Hesse

Konrad Hesse ( born January 29, 1919 in Königsberg, East Prussia, † 15 March 2005 in Merzhausen ) was a German legal scholar and 1975-1987 Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court.

Work

Konrad Hesse suggested by his legal training at first an academic career a. From 1952 to 1956, Hesse worked as a lecturer at the Canon Law Institute of the Evangelical Church in Germany in Göttingen. He received his doctorate in 1950 and his habilitation in 1955 at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen. His Venia included constitutional, administrative and ecclesiastical law. He received his first professorship in 1965 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. He also worked in the next office from 1961 to 1975 as a judge at the Administrative Court of Baden -Württemberg. From 1968 to 1976 he was also also Chairman of the Court of Arbitration of the Evangelical Church in Germany. He was honored by the award of legal honorary doctorate in 1983 in Zurich and 1989 in Würzburg.

As a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Hesse was a member of the First Senate and coined in connection with the census decision in 1983 the concept of the right to informational self-determination. On him the resolution of fundamental rights collisions by producing the so-called practical concordance goes back.

Since 2003, Hesse was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Works (selection)

• Principles of the constitutional law of the Federal Republic of Germany, 20th edition, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8114-7499-5
• Constitutional Law and Private Law, Heidelberg, 1988, ISBN 3-8114-8588-1
• The Unitarian State, Karlsruhe 1962