Hermann Heller

Hermann Heller (1891–1933) was a German constitutional lawyer and legal philosopher. He studied law and political science in Kiel, Vienna, Innsbruck, and Graz, received his doctorate in Graz in 1915, and completed his habilitation in Kiel in 1920. Heller taught in Kiel, Leipzig, Berlin, and Frankfurt am Main, and was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. A proponent of democratic and socially reformist constitutional thought, he wrote on constitutional theory, socialism, and the nation. He emigrated to Spain in 1933 and became a visiting professor at the University of Madrid, where he died on 5 November of that year. His principal works include *Sozialismus und Nation* (1925), *Die Souveränität* (1927), *Europa und der Fascismus* (1929), and the posthumously published *Staatslehre* (1934).