Ernst Rudolf Huber

{{Short description|German legal historian (1903–1990)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} '''Ernst Rudolf Huber''' (8 June 1903 – 28 October 1990) was a German [[jurist]], noted as a [[constitutional historian]] and for his attempts to provide a legal underpinning for the [[Nazi regime]].

==Life and work== Huber studied law in [[Bonn]] under [[Carl Schmitt]]. He received a PhD in 1926 for a work on state church law, and his [[habilitation]] in 1931 for a work on economic administrative law, which he was instrumental in establishing as a field of study. In 1933, he was called to teach in [[Kiel]], and subsequently also taught law in [[Leipzig]] after 1937 and in [[Strasbourg]] from 1941 to 1944.

Like [[Georg Dahm]] and [[Karl Larenz]], Huber (who joined the [[Nazi Party]] on 1 May 1933) belonged to the "Kiel school" of [[constitutional law]], which attempted to legitimize the ''[[Führerstaat]]'', [[Adolf Hitler]]'s dictatorship, by constructing a legal structure to anchor it in the German state as the source of all legitimate power. In doing so, Huber was influential in shaping the law of Nazi Germany and in recruiting others to that task. Because of this, he was excluded from the public law scholars' association in 1956, and did not find work as an ordinary professor until 1962, when he was appointed to a chair in [[Göttingen]].

After the end of the 1930s, Huber's work focused on the history of German constitutional law. This culminated in his ''Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte seit 1789'', which covered mainly Prussian constitutional law from 1789 to 1933, and was published in eight volumes between 1957 and 1990.

==References== {{reflist}} * [[Ewald Grothe]]: ''Zwischen Geschichte und Recht. Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichtsschreibung 1900–1970'', Oldenbourg, München 2005 (= ''Ordnungssysteme,'' vol. 16), {{ISBN|3-486-57784-0}}. Review from [[Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde]]. In: ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]'', 24 January 2006. * Ewald Grothe (Hrsg.): ''[[Carl Schmitt]] – Ernst Rudolf Huber. Briefwechsel 1926–1981. Mit ergänzenden Materialien'', Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-428-14170-8}}. * Ewald Grothe (Hrsg.): ''Ernst Rudolf Huber. Staat – Verfassung – Geschichte'', Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2015 (= ''Staatsverständnisse'', vol. 80), {{ISBN|978-3-8487-2618-9}}. * {{cite book | last= Herrmann| first= Florian |page= 307 | chapter= Huber, Ernst Rudolf |editor= Michael Stolleis|title= Juristen. Ein biographisches Lexikon. Von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert |edition= 2nd |year= 2001 |publisher= Beck |location= München |language= German |isbn= 3406 45957 9}}

==External links== * {{PM20|FID=pe/008274}}

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