Gerd Roellecke (1927 in
Iserlohn,
North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany – 2011 in
Karlsruhe,
Baden-Württemberg,
Germany) was a German researcher,
lawyer
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,
philosopher
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and former professor for
public law
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and
philosophy
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at the
University of Mannheim from 1969 to 1999. Moreover, he served as
rector
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at the
University of Mannheim between 1982 and 1985.
Education
Roellecke studied
law and
economics from 1948 to 1952 at the universities in
Würzburg and
Freiburg where he obtained his first
Staatsexamen. Afterwards, he obtained his second ''Staatsexamen'' at the
University of Düsseldorf and his doctorate in law as well as his
habilitation
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in 1969 at the
University of Mainz.
Academics
Roellecke worked from 1969 until he became
emeritus
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in 1995 as chaired professor for
public law
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and
law philosophy at the
University of Mannheim (UMA). Between 1970 and 1973 he was vicepresident of the university and from 1982 to 1985 president (''Rektor''). He was succeeded by
Heinrich Chantraine
Heinrich Chantraine (February 1929 in Betzdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany – December 2002 in Mossautal, Hesse) was a German researcher, numismaticsian and professor of history at the University of Mannheim as well as the University o ...
in his role as rector of the university.
In 1999 he received the
Merit Cross 1st Class and became honorary member of the
German Research Institute for Public Administration in 2001.
Publications
* Patrick Bahners, Gerd Roellecke (Hrsg.): Preußische Stile : ein Staat als Kunststück, Stuttgart : Klett-Cotta 2001, .
* Über immanente Grenzen der richterlichen Gewalt des Bundesverfassungsgerichtes, Freiburg im Breisgau 1960, zugl. Diss., Univ. Freiburg 1960.
* Der Begriff des positiven Gesetzes und das Grundgesetz, Mainz 1969, zugl. Habil.-Schrift, Univ. Mainz 1969.
* Verfassungsgebende Gewalt als Ideologie, in: JZ 1992, S. 929 bis 934.
* Die Entkoppelung von Recht und Religion, in: JZ 2004, S. 105 bis 110.
* Religion - Recht - Kultur und die Eigenwilligkeit der Systeme: Überarbeitete Fassung eines Vortrags gehalten vor der „Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin“ am 9. Mai 2007, De Gruyter Recht, Berlin 2007, .
See also
*
List of University of Mannheim people
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Business ...
*
List of University of Mainz people
*
University of Mannheim
*
Karlsruhe
*
Baden-Württemberg
Notes
External links
List of Publications of Gerd Roellecke
1927 births
Jurists from North Rhine-Westphalia
2011 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Mannheim
Academic staff of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
German philosophers
People from Iserlohn
German male writers
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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