Herbert Kraus

Herbert Kraus

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Herbert Kraus (* January 2, 1884 in Rostock; † March 15, 1965 in Göttingen) was a German professor of public international law. He was the first director of the Institute of International Law at the University of Göttingen. Due to his criticism of nazism he was forced to retire between 1937 and 1945.

Early life and education (1884-1928)

Herbert Kraus studied law from 1904 to 1908 in Heidelberg, Leipzig and Berlin. In 1908 he completed his Ph.D. and completed his 2nd State Law Exam (German Bar Admission) in Saxony in 1911.

During a subsequent stay at Columbia University and Harvard University he completed his habilitation on “The Monroe Doctrine and its relations with American Diplomacy and Public International Law” ("”Die Monroedoktrin und ihre Beziehung zur Amerikanischen Diplomatie und zum Völkerrecht“") . He spent the winter term 1913/1914 in Paris at the Sorbonne and received his habilitation in summer 1914 from the University of Leipzig.

During World War 1 Kraus served in the German civil administration in Belgium. Between 1917 and 1919 he worked in the division for legal affairs of the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt). He took part in the negotiations of the Treaty of Brest-Litowsk and the Treaty of Versailles .

Academic career (1928-1937)

In 1919 he was Privatdozent in Leipzig. 1920 he became Professor extraordinarius and 1923 Professor ordinarius at the University of Königsberg were he taught constitutional law and international law. In summer 1927 he taught at the Hague Academy of International Law (again in 1934) [ [http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=19873 Recueil des Cours, Collected Courses, Volume 50 (1934-IV), Contents] ] . As one of the first German professors he was invited to teach at summer schools in Chicago [ [http://www.archive.org/stream/germanyintransit011104mbp/germanyintransit011104mbp_djvu.txt Full text of Herbert Kraus speech -Germany In Transition, Lecture On The Harris Foundation, 1924] ] and Philadelphia. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,880422,00.html Time, Monday, Jul. 28, 1924 ] ]

1928 he was called to the chair for general international law at the University of Göttingen. In 1930 he founded the Institute of International Law at the University of Göttingen were he was the Ph.D.-supervisor of Adam von Trott zu Solz, involved in the July 20 Plot.

Forced retirement (1937-1945)

After the Nazis seized power, the so called Machtergreifung, Kraus had to face hostilities by Nazi authorities. He published his criticism of the Nazi foreign policy in 1934 in a work titled “The crisis of inter-state thought“ ("„Die Krise des zwischenstaatlichen Denkens“"). In this work he argued in favor of a certain binding minimal moral standards. Though he criticized the Treaty of Versailles, he also called Adolf Hitler a „fool“. In several subsequent articles he also criticized Carl Schmitt´s understanding of international law. After 4 years of hostilities Kraus was removed from all offices in 1937, forced to retire and banned from publishing.

Kraus moved to Dresden were he undertook 1937-1938 some work commissioned by Columbia University. Subsequently he worked on a textbook of international law and a book on Georg Friedrich von Martens but the drafts of these works were destroyed in the dresden bombing in February 1945.

Post-war period (1945-1965)

1945 Kraus was reinstated as professor in Göttingen.

However, he did not return to Göttingen before 1947 because he was defense counsel of the former president of the Reichsbank Hjalmar Schacht at the Nuremberg Trials. [ [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/defense.htm Nuremberg Trial Proceeding Vol. 1, Yale, The Avalon Project] ]

Back in Göttingen he worked on rebuilding the Institute of International Law and matters concerning the status of the former eastern territories of Germany under international law. He was chairman of the advisory group of the Federal German Government on the Treaty of Paris (1951).

Kraus retired in 1953. [ [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=A9FDE9F5D1CD6FE3F1CCFB9663C5660C.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=1462644 International & Comparative Law Quarterly (1957), 6: 588-588] ] In 1964 he was awarded the Federal Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Bundesverdienstkreuz.

Private life

Herbert Kraus was married to the American sculptor Katharina Hobson-Kraus (born 1889). She left Germany in 1935 and they divorced in 1939.

Works (extract)

*"Die Monroedoktrin und ihre Beziehung zur Amerikanischen Diplomatie und zum Völkerrecht", Berlin, 1913. de icon
*"Interesse und zwischenstaatliche Ordnung", NZIR, Bd. 49, 1934, S. 22-65. de icon
*"Carl Schmitt, Nationalsozialismus und Völkerrecht", NZIR, Bd. 50, 1935, S. 151-161. de icon
*"Internationale Gegenwartsfragen – Völkerrecht, Staatsethik, internationale Politik", Würzburg, 1963. de icon

Literature

* Dietrich Rauschning, "Herbert Kraus (1884-1965)", in: "Die Albertus-Magnus-Universität zu Königsberg und ihre Professoren" (Hrsg: Dietrich Rauschning, Donata v. Nereé), Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1994, S. 371-382. de icon
* Frank Halfmann: "Eine „Pflanzstätte bester nationalsozialistischer Rechtsgelehrter“: Die juristische Abteilung der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät", in: "Die Universität Göttingen unter dem Nationalsozialismus" (Hrsg.: Heinrich Becker u.a.), München u.a.: K.G. Saur, 1987 de icon

References

External links

*History, Institute of International Law, University of Göttingen: [http://inteurlaw.uni-goettingen.de/inteurlaw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=1] de icon


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