Konrad Hesse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German Jurisprudence scientist, from 1975 to 1987 Judge at Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
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Place of Birth: Königsberg
About Konrad Hesse
- Konrad Hesse (January 29, 1919 – March 15, 2005) was a German jurisprudence scientist and, from 1975 to 1987, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. Hesse was born in Königsberg, East Prussia.
- He entered the scientific field after his education in law.
- He obtained his doctorate degree in 1950, and was habilited in 1955 at the University of Göttingen.
- His habilitation covered state, administration and canon laws.
- He received his first ordinary professorship in 1965 at the University of Freiburg.
- Additionally, he worked from 1961 to 1975 as a judge at the Supreme Administrative Court in Baden-Württemberg. As a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, Hesse was a member of the first senate and coined, in connection with the census judgement in 1983, the term of the right to informational self-determination.
- To solve the clash of civil rights, he produced the so-called term of practical concordance. Since 2003 Hesse was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
- He died in Merzhausen.
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