Hugo Sinzheimer

Hugo Sinzheimer
Sinzheimer in 1919
Born(1875-04-12)12 April 1875
Worms, Hesse, Germany
Died16 September 1945(1945-09-16) (aged 70)
Bloemendaal, Netherlands
NationalityGerman
Academic background
Alma materHeidelberg University
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsGoethe University Frankfurt
InfluencedFranz Neumann

Hugo Sinzheimer (12 April 1875 – 16 September 1945)[1] was a German legal scholar and contributed to the writing of the Weimar Constitution. He was a leading proponent of the concept of social law.[2]

  1. ^ "Hugo Sinzheimer". www.hugo-sinzheimer-institut.de. Archived from the original on 2010-07-23.
  2. ^ Ruth Dukes, The Labour Constitution: The Enduring Idea of Labour Law (2014) 15-16 and Otto von Gierke, The Social Role of Private Law (2016) translated and introduced by E McGaughey, originally Die soziale Aufgabe des Privatrechts (Berlin 1889)