Author: Gottfried Dietze

Gottfried Dietze, born in Kemberg, Saxony-Anhalt, in 1922, studied foreign studies, law, philosophy and politics in Berlin, Göttingen, Hamburg, California and Harvard. He got a PhD in law from Heidelberg University, with a dissertation on human rights written under Walter Jellinek. (As a Jew, Walter Jellinek was not allowed to teach in the Third Reich. He helped Dr. Dietze to his professorship at Johns Hopkins University, as did former Reich Chancellor Brüning, who was Dr. Dietze’s advisor at Harvard); Ph.D., Princeton, with a dissertation on the concept of "free government" in America, written under Alpheus T. Mason; S.J.D. at the University of Virginia with a comparative law dissertation on property. Dietze taught comparative government at Johns Hopkins University since 1954 until his passing on July 10, 2006. See also:

• https://mises.org/mises-daily/who-was-gottfried-dietze
• https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/blog/29199
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Dietze