Ernst Forsthoff

He himself was unwilling to submit fully to the Nazi state, however, and fell in disfavour with the authorities during the war. In a seminal 1938 paper, he coined the term Daseinsvorsorge, introducing the concept of public services to German legal thinking.

Ernst Forsthoff (1902 to 1974) was a German legal scholar and a leading theorist of administrative law.

In a seminal 1938 paper, he coined the term Daseinsvorsorge, introducing the concept of public services to German legal thinking. After the war, although now supporting the democratic Rechtsstaat (which he understood as opposed to the Sozialstaat advocated by the Left), Forsthoff continued to support a powerful state subject to only limited judicial constraints and rejected the notion of constitutional rights as a normative framework of society. Forsthoff was among the few postwar European scholars who maintained adherence to the philosophy of strict legal positivism.

Ernst Forsthoff was a German scholar of constitutional law and a leading theorist of administrative law.

was a German scholar of constitutional law and a lea

P19 (place of birth): Duisburg

P20 (place of death): Heidelberg