Prof Dr Dieter Sterzel
Prof Dr Dieter Sterzel
Former professorship for public law, emeritus since 2003, see press release.
I. Monographs, textbooks
Academic freedom and university organisation, Diss., 1973
Civil servant strike law (with T. Blanke), 1980
Privatisation law for civil servants, (with T. Blanke), 1999
The academic freedom of the employed researcher, 2000
Public transport between public welfare interests and the market (with U. Scheele), 2000
Protection of Tendencies and the Basic Law, 2001
The protection of the privatisation official according to Art. 143b para. 3 GG, 2003
Freedom of science and university modernisation (with J. Perels), 2003
Denationalisation of academic appointments, 2005
Privatisation of court and probation services, 2006
The referendum in favour of a Bavarian minimum wage law, 2008
II Comments
On the genesis of the emergency laws, in: Sterzel, ed., Kritik der Notstandsgesetze, 1968, 7 ff.
Restrictions on the secrecy of correspondence, post and telecommunications, in: Sterzel, ed., Kritik der Notstandsgesetze, 1968, 24 ff.
Nur der autoritäre Staat verfolgt Kritik, in: Blanke, Brückner et al, eds, Der Oldenburger Buback-Prozess, 1979, 203 ff.
Die Entwicklung des Demonstrationsrechts von der Studentenbewegung bis heute (with T. Blanke), in: Cobler, Geulen, Narr, eds, Das Demonstrationsrecht, 1983, 53 ff.
Wolfgang Abendroth (1906-1985) - Revolutionary and constitutional lawyer of the labour movement, in: Kritische Justiz, ed. Streitbarer Juristen, 1988, 476 ff.
Compulsion to work in the welfare state, in: Stein, Faber, ed., Auf einem Dritten Weg (FS H. Ridder), 1989, 269 ff.
The case of Peter Brückner - An attack on the freedom of science, in: Seifert. Thörmer, Wettig, eds, Social or Socialist Democracy? (FS P. von Oertzen), 1989, 177 ff.
Fiat justitia, pereat Germania! German and the German Question, in: Fabricius-Brand, Isermann, Seifert, eds, Rechtspolitik "mit aufrechtem Gang" (FS W. Holtfort), 1990, 259 ff.
Staatliches Gewaltmonopol - Garant des Lebensschutzes?, in: Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie, ed., Staatliches Gewaltmonopol, bürgerliche Sicherheit und zeitige Freiheitsstrafe, 1994, 151 ff.
Functions of political justice - using the example of the criminal proceedings conducted against members of the Red Army Faction (RAF), in Görlitz, ed., Politische Justiz, 1996, 115 ff.
Demonstrations - a constitutional interpretation of civil protest in the Federal Republic since the beginning of the 1960s, in: Graczyk, ed., Das Volk - Abbild, Konstruktion, Phantasma, 1996, 207 ff.
Social fundamental rights, social civil rights, in: Jahrbuch Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie 1996/97, 171 ff.
Fundamental right of labour as a fundamental right to co-determination, in: Buckmiller, Perels, ed., Opposition als Triebkraft der Demokratie (FS J. Seifert), 1998, 266 ff.
Human Dignity and Tests, (with T. Blanke), in: Grubitzsch, ed., Testtheorie - Testpraxis, 2nd ed. 1999, p. 325 ff.
Überwindung des Anthropozentrismus im Grundgesetz, in: Lenk, Rumpf, Hieber, eds, Kritische Theorie und politischer Eingriff (FS O. Negt), 1999, 205 ff.
Die Einheit von Grundrechtsidee und Grundgesetz, in: Redaktion Kritische Justiz, ed., Demokratie und Grundgesetz, 2000, 156 ff.
Tension and defence, (Art. 12a para. 3-6, 53a, 80a, 87a para. 3, 115a, 115c - 115l GG) in: Denninger, Hoffmann-Riem et al, eds, Alternative Commentary on the Basic Law, 3rd ed. 2001
Co-determination as a constitutional mandate, in Faber, Frank, ed., Demokratie in Staat und Gesellschaft (FS E. Stein), 2002, 215 ff.
Constitutional and municipal law framework conditions for the privatisation of public tasks, in: Blanke/Fedder, eds., Privatisierung - ein Rechtshandbuch, 2nd ed., 2010, 190 ff.
Transfer of civil servants to privatised companies, in: Blanke/Fedder, ed., Privatisierung - ein Rechtshandbuch, 2nd ed., 2010, 574 ff.
III Contributions and essays
20 Years of the Basic Law, KJ 1969, 244 ff.
Loyalty to the state versus freedom of opinion (with T. Blanke), KJ 1978, 419 ff.
Three readings of the word "Berufsverbot": Communist reading, government reading, constitutional reading, DuR 1981, 57 ff.
Freedom of demonstration - history and democratic function (with T. Blanke), KJ 1981, 347 ff.
Protection of fundamental rights in social welfare law, KJ 1986, 117 ff.
Freedom against dictated aid, Vorgänge 1987, 33 ff.
Chernobyl and no legal consequences, KJ 1987, 394 ff.
Freedom of assembly and compulsory attendance at school, KJ 1989, 307 ff.
De-radicalisation of the radical judicature, KJ 1989, 457 ff.
In a new constitution? On the necessity of a constitutional founding act for a united Germany, KJ 1990, 385 ff.
Off with the post? The Controversy over the Privatisation of the German Post Office (with T. Blanke), KJ 1993, 278 ff.
State objectives and fundamental social rights, ZRP 1993, 13 ff.
The school of the future between legal capacity and state supervision, ZBV 2004, 47 ff.
Curriculum vitae
born 1935
1956 Studied in Marburg, Munich and Münster
1961 Legal clerkship exam
1965 Assessor examination
1966 - 1971 Research assistant at the Chair of Public Law at the University of Giessen
1972 Doctorate from the University of Giessen
1971 - 1974 Consultant at the Nieders. Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs
1974 - 2003 Professorship for public law