Gerhard Anschütz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gerhard Anschütz

Noted German teacher of constitutional law/leading commentator:Weimar Constitution

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1867

Place of Birth: Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 14-Apr-1948

Profession: professor, university teacher, constitutional lawyer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Gerhard Anschütz (10 January 1867 in Halle (Saale) – 14 April 1948 in Heidelberg) was a noted German teacher of constitutional law and the leading commentator of the Weimar Constitution.
His principal work (with Richard Thoma) is the two-volume legal encyclopedia Handbuch des deutschen Staatsrechts; his constitutional commentary saw 14 editions during the Weimar Republic. Anschütz, a proponent of legal positivism, taught constitutional law in Tübingen (after 1899), Heidelberg (1900), Berlin (1908) and again Heidelberg (1916).
A Democrat by conviction even during World War I, he resigned his teaching position in 1933 after the Nazis seized power.
After World War II, he served as a consultant to the US military government and in this position was one of the fathers of the constitution of the Bundesland Hesse.