The philosopher of law and former Federal constitutional court judge Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, died on Sunday at the age of 88 years. After his Habilitation in 1964, he taught as a Professor for public law at the universities of Heidelberg, Bielefeld and Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1983 until 1996, he served as a judge in Karlsruhe. There he was, especially for the asylum as well as for the financial constitutional and financial law.
Well-known to the SPD was a member, with the dictum: “The free, secularized state lives by prerequisites that it cannot guarantee itself.” Critics accused the self-confessed Catholics, he had not attributed to the Religion a role in the preservation of the state order, status of your.
Böckenförde himself later clarified that he meant a “unifying Ethos”, which come from sources such as Christianity, humanism and enlightenment.
The constitutional court recalled in a message, for example, in the decisions on the financial equalisation among the States and to sur place “tatbestä”, the Böckenförde had prepared. Eleven Times he was issued with a dissenting opinion a dissenting opinion.
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to order, He was awarded the Hannah Arendt prize for political Thinking. Last böckenförde lived in Au bei Freiburg, Germany. (with dpa)