Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
	Böckenförde in 1989
Born	19 September 1930; Kassel, Prussia, Germany
Died	24 February 2019 (aged 88); Au, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Education	University of Münster
Organizations	University of Heidelberg; University of Bielefeld; University of Freiburg; Federal Constitutional Court;
Known for	Böckenförde dilemma
Office	President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
Awards	Romano Guardini Award; Hannah Arendt Prize; Sigmund Freud Prize; Grand Cross of Merit;

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (German: [ɛʁnst ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈbœkŋ̍ˌføːɐ̯də]; 19 September 1930 – 24 February 2019) was a German legal scholar and a justice on Germany's Federal Constitutional Court. He was a professor at the University of Freiburg and the author of more than 20 books and 80 articles dealing with legal and constitutional theory, as well as political theory, political philosophy and Catholic political thought. Böckenförde was considered a member of the Ritter School.

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