Professor Dr. Hinnerk Wißmann

Current affiliations

  • Chair of Public Law, in particular Administrative Sciences, Cultural and Religious Constitutional Law (Prof. Wißmann) (KWI)
  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Fundamental questions of constitutional law and general administrative law
  • The constitutional law of Religion
  • Selected questions of public law (administrative organization, public service law, municipal law)

Academic Education

2007Habilitation, license to teach Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Law on state-church-relations, Canon Law and History of the Constitutions of the Modern Era
2001Dissertation at the Faculty of Law of the University of Augsburg
1993 - 1998Study of Law at the Universities of Göttingen, Hannover und Freiburg

Work Experience

since 2018Director of the Institute for Municipal Science
since 2018Director of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Institute
since 2013Professorship for Public Law, Sciences of Administrations, Constitutional Law concerning Culture and Religion
2012Calls to the Universities of Gießen and Münster
2008 - 2012Professorship for Public Law, Economic Law, Constitutional Law concerning Culture and Religion at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bayreuth
2007 - 2008Interim Professor at the Universities of Göttingen and München
2002 - 2007Assistant Lecturer at the University of Augsburg (Professorship Prof. Dr. Masing)
1999 - 2002Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Celle, at the same time Research Assistant at the Bucerius Law School Hamburg
1998 - 1999Research Assistant at the University of Augsburg (Professorship Prof. Dr. Masing)

Functions and Memberships

since 2018Chairman of the Senate of the University of Münster
since 2013Person of trust for the foundation “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”
since 2010Member of the chamber for theology of the Evangelical Church in Germany
since 2000Member of the selection committee for the foundation “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”
2013 - 2016Committee of the State Parliament of the land North Rhine-Westphalia for the reformation of the state constitution

Publications

Wißmann, Hinnerk (2023)
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag.
Type of Publication: Text book (monograph)
Wißmann, Hinnerk (2023)
In: Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt, 138
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Overbeck, Franz-Josef; Uhle, Arnd; Anke, Hans Ulrich; de Wall, Heinrich; Günzel, Angelika Noa; Wißmann, Hinnerk; Liminski, Nathanael; Mensink, Dagmar; Oebbecke, Janbernd (2023)
In: Uhle, Arnd; Wolf, Judith (eds.), Möglichkeiten und Grenzen staatlicher Religionspolitik. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag.
Type of Publication: Conference report (book contribution)
Wißmann, Hinnerk (2022)
In: Cancik, Pascale; Kley, Andreas; Schulze-Fielitz, Helmuth; Waldhoff, Christian; Wiederin, Ewald (eds.), Streitsache Staat – Die Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer 1922-2022. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Wißmann, Hinnerk (2022)
In: Burgi, Martin; Waldhoff, Christian (eds.), Kommunale Selbstverwaltung im Bundes- und Finanzstaat, Festschrift für Hans-Günter Hennecke. Köln: Carl Heymanns Verlag.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
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Projects

Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/07/2016 - 31/12/2020 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: MKW - Forschungskolleg
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/10/2014 - 31/12/2018 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster