Wolfgang Abendroth
Socialist german jurist and political scientist
Died when: 79 years 136 days (952 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Wolfgang Walter Arnulf Abendroth (2 May 1906 – 15 September 1985) was a socialist German jurist and political scientist.He was born in Elberfeld, now a part of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Abendroth was an important contributor to the constitutional foundation of postwar West Germany.He briefly held a professorship in law in East Germany.
As he was opposed to Stalinism, he left for West Germany, where he was appointed professor in political science at Marburg in 1950.
Abendroth also served as a senior judge in the state court of Hesse.In the late 1950s, while at the University of Marburg, Abendroth oversaw the habilitation in political science of major German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist Jürgen Habermas.
The title of his habilitation thesis was The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society and Habermas dedicated it to Abendroth as he valued deeply Abendroth's role in re-founding postwar (West) Germany as a liberal constitutional state and in engaging in vigorous public debate in the spirit of the ideal that Habermas laid out in his first major study.
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