The University of Göttingen (German: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) is a university in the city of Göttingen, Germany.

It was founded in 1734 by George II, King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover, and was then opened in 1737. The University of Göttingen soon grew in size and popularity. Göttingen is a historic university city, with a high student population and has been home to generations of notable academics and notable alumni alike.

The University of Göttingen is also one of the highest-ranked universities in Germany.



The old Building of the University and its library in 1815

The Faculty of Law

Kontakt:
Dekanat der Juristischen Fakultät
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 6
37073 Göttingen
Tel.: +49 (0)551/39-7360 / 7367
Fax: +49 (0)551/39-73 61

dekanat@jura.uni-goettingen.de

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Juristische Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen



Logo of the Faculty of Law

List of Georg-August University of Göttingen people

Among the people who have taught or studied at the Georg-August University of Göttingen are the following:

Law, economics and social sciences

• Peter Badura — Law — (Professor ordinarius 1964–1970)
• Dieter Bohlen — Economics — (Student)
• Zhu De — (Student, 1922–1925) — Cofounder of the People's Liberation Army of China
• Georg Diederichs — Law, Economics, Pharmacy — (Student)
• Uwe Diederichsen — Law — (Professor ordinarius)
• Georg Ebers — Law (later famous Egyptologist) — (Student)
• Robert Goodfellow — Political Sciences — (Erasmus Student)
• Heinrich Heine — Law — (Student, Ph.D.)
• Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf — Law and Administrative Sciences — (Student)
• Karl Larenz — Law — (Ph.D.)
• Peter Lösche — Political Sciences — (Professor ordinarius)
• Angus Macdonald — Law — (Erasmus Student)
• Hartmut Maurer — Law — (Ph.D.)
• Georg Michaelis — Law — (Ph.D.)
• John Pierpont Morgan — (Student)
• Lassa Oppenheim — Law — (Ph.D.)
• Helmuth Plessner — (Professor and university president)
• Claus Roxin — Law — (Professor ordinarius1963–1971)
• Johann Stephan Pütter — Law — (Professor ordinarius)
• Georg Friedrich Sartorius (von Waltershausen) — Economics and History
• Eberhard Schmidt-Aßmann — Law — (Ph.D.)
• Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig — Law — (scientific Assistant, Habilitand)
• Percy Ernst Schramm — History — (Professor 1929-1963)
• Gerhard Schröder — Law — (Student, AStA-Chairman, Honorary Ph.D. of Natural Sciences) — former chancellor of Germany
• Christian Starck— Law — (Professor ordinarius)
• Bassam Tibi — International Relations — (Professor ordinarius)
• Jürgen Trittin — Social Sciences — (Student, AStA-Member)
• Rudolf von Bennigsen — Law — (Student)
• Otto von Bismarck — Law — (Student) — iron chancellor of the second German Empire
• Wilhelm von Bode — Law, Arts — (Student)
• Gustav von Hugo — Law — (Student) — (Professor ordinarius)
• Rudolf von Jhering — Law — (Student) — (Professor ordinarius)
• Friedrich Carl von Savigny — Law — (Student)
• Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg — Law (Victim of 20 July 1944) — (Student)
• Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr vom Stein — Law — (Student, 1773–1777)
• Richard von Weizsäcker — History, Law — (Student, Ph.D.) — former President of Germany
• Hans Julius Wolff — Law — (Ph.D.)

Related Links:

University of Göttingen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of Georg-August University of Göttingen people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Georg-August-Universitat in Gottingen Juristische Fakultat Ranking - Avvo.com

The interior of the university Aula

[Göttingen Aula Konzert Händelfestspiele 2005]