No CrossRef data available.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2014
At the present time, there is an extensive literature dealing with the structure and functions of the eighteen German state governments. For most of the states, one finds collections of laws and regulations, commentaries and manuals, state hand-books, statistical year-books, legal and administrative journals, together with other more or less fugitive publications. But among all this material, there are almost no comparative studies in state law, politics, and administration.
It may be worth while to suggest briefly a number of helps for the comparative study of German state government. Of the treatises on public law, the only one which deals exclusively with the states is Julius Hatschek's Ausserpreussisches Landesstaatsrecht (Berlin, 1926). This volume discusses and compares the governments of all the German states except Prussia and Waldeck. The constitutions of ten of the more important states are printed as appendices, but the usefulness of the book is lessened by the complete omission of an index. Otto Meissner's Das Staatsrecht des Reichs und seiner Länder (2nd ed., Berlin, 1923) devotes considerable space to the states and is provided with a good index. It is now, however, somewhat out of date. Walter Jellinek's Verfassung und Verwaltung des Reichs und der Länder (Leipzig, 1925) is of little value for the purpose now under consideration, as it contains only thirteen pages on the states. Fritz Stier-Somlo's Deutsches Reichs-und Landesstaatsrecht (Vol. I, Berlin, 1924) is, of course, recognized as a standard work, but thus far only one volume has appeared. The second volume, dealing with the states, is not yet forthcoming.
1 Waldeck's recent decision to unite with Prussia will reduce the number of German states to seventeen. This decision takes effect in 1929.
2 Prussia was omitted because it had already been covered in a previous work by Hatschek, , Deutsches und Preussisches Staatsrecht (2 vols., Berlin, 1922, 1923)Google Scholar.
3 There are also a number of legal collections on particular subjects, such as, for example, the collection now in preparation, Die Polizeiverordnungen des Deutschen Reichs und der deutschen Länder, edited by Falck, Menzel, and Hirschberg.
4 Other periodicals which may be mentioned as useful for the purpose under discussion are: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung, which reports changes in administration and government day by day, and also publishes important articles from time to time; Verwaltungsarchiv, which frequently contains valuable articles on state government and administration; and Juristische Wochenschrift, particularly valuable for current happenings in the field of state government and the administration of justice. Attention should be called also to the following treatises: de Grais, Hue, Handbuch der Verfassung und Verwaltung, 23 Auflage. 1926Google Scholar; Dieckmann, Carl, Verwaltungsrecht, 1923Google Scholar; Hans Cuno, Verwaltungsrecht und Verwaltungspraxis, a set of small volumes devoted to Prussia, and particularly to Prussian finance; and the article by Dr. Erwin Jacobi on Deutsches Staatsrecht (Reichs-und Landesstaatsrecht) in Vol. 24 of Enzyklopädie der Rechts und Staatswissenschaft. (Ed.)
Comments
No Comments have been published for this article.