Thomas Oppermann (academic)

Last updated • 1 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Thomas Oppermann (15 February 1931 in Heidelberg – 26 January 2019 [1] ) was a German legal academic and university administrator.

Contents

Oppermann received his Doctor of Laws from the University of Freiburg in 1959 and became a professor in Public, European, International Law and Foreign Politics at the University of Tübingen in 1967. He served as dean of the Tubingen Faculty of Law between 1971 and 1972, and became the university vice president in 1983.

Between 1985 and 2003, Oppermann served as a judge on the Baden-Württemberg State Court of Justice, the state's constitutional court. He has also served on several legal associations, including as chair of the Association of German Constitutional Lawyers. For his legal scholarship, Oppermann received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2004.

Oppermann is married to Ingrid Oppermann (née Cording), and has four children.

Selected publications

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carlo Schmid (German politician)</span> German academic and politician of the social-democratic SPD (1896–1979)

Carlo Schmid was a German academic and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

Rudolf Steinberg is professor emeritus for public law and from 2000 to 2008 was president of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wolfgang Huber</span> German bishop

Wolfgang Huber is a prominent German theologian and ethicist. Huber served as bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia until November 2009. Huber succeeded Manfred Kock as Chairperson of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in November 2003 and was succeeded by Bishop Margot Käßmann, the first woman in that position, in October 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Winfried Brugger</span>

Winfried Brugger was Professor of Public Law, Philosophy of Law and Theory of State at Heidelberg University.

Klaus Gustav Heinrich von Beyme was a German political scientist who was professor of political science emeritus at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Heidelberg University Faculty of Law</span>

The Heidelberg University Faculty of Law, located in Heidelberg, Germany, is one of the original four constituent faculties of Heidelberg University. Founded in 1386 by Rupert I, Elector Palatine, it is the oldest law school in Germany.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Oppermann</span> German politician (1954–2020)

Thomas Ludwig Albert Oppermann was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). From October 2017 until his death he served as Vice President of the Bundestag. In his earlier career, he served as First Secretary (2007–2013) and later as chairman (2013–2017) of the SPD Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trossingen Formation</span>

The Trossingen Formation, formerly the Knollenmergel, is a geological formation in Germany and Switzerland. It dates back to the late Norian-Rhaetian.

Juliane Kokott is the German Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and Professor at the University of St. Gallen.

Bernhard Maier is a German professor of religious studies, who publishes mainly on Celtic culture and religion.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Phytos Poetis</span> Lawyer

Dr Phytos Poetis, OM, Dr iur (Hamburg), FCIArb, Barrister, is an international lawyer.

Michael Kilian is a German legal scholar and a former justice of the Constitutional Court of Saxony-Anhalt. Until 1982 he was the private secretary of Walter Hallstein, who was the President of the Commission of the European Economic Community.

Stefan Korioth is a German lawyer and professor of public law and ecclesiastical law at LMU Munich.

Anne Sophia-Marie van Aaken is a German lawyer and economist, who is a full professor of law and economics, legal theory, public international law and European law at the University of Hamburg.

Dieter Nörr was a German scholar of Ancient Law. He studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1949 to 1953. After receiving his doctorate with a dissertation on criminal law in the Code of Hammurabi, Nörr undertook postdoctoral study at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Rome. He worked for a year as a post-doctoral assistant at the Institute for Criminal Law and Legal Philosophy under Karl Engisch. He received his Habilitation at the University of Munich, under Professor Wolfgang Kunkel, in 1959 with a work on Byzantine Contract Law and was promoted to Privatdozent. He then accepted the Chair of Roman and Civil Law at the University of Hamburg. In 1960, Nörr became Full Professor at the University of Münster. After he declined positions at the Universities of Hamburg, Tübingen, and Bielefeld, he returned to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as Professor, Chair of Roman Law, and Director of the Leopold Wenger Institute for Ancient Legal History and Papyrus Research. His brother, Knut Wolfgang Nörr, was also a Professor of Legal History, especially Canon Law, at the University of Tübingen.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexander Somek</span> Austrian legal scholar

Alexander Somek is an Austrian legal scholar.

Sven Simon is a German law professor and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. He previously taught international and European law at Philipps University of Marburg. In the 2019 European Parliament election he was the lead candidate for the Christian Democratic Union Hessen.

Hubert Kaufhold is a German legal scholar and judge, with special research interests in the languages and legal history of the Christian Orient.

Thomas Craig Lundmark is an American lawyer and legal scholar, specialising in comparative law and legal theory (jurisprudence). He was Professor of Common Law and Legal Theory at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster from 1997 to 2015, where he is now emeritus professor. He presently holds the HK Bevan Chair in Law at the University of Hull.

Thomas Duve is a German jurist and historian. He is a law professor at Goethe University Frankfurt and director of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory of the Max Planck Society since 2009.

References

  1. "Nachruf Professor Dr. iur. Dres. h.c. Thomas Oppermann". Schwäbisches Tagblatt (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-13.