Acta Juridica Hungarica
Volume/Issue:
Volume 52: Issue 1
The preamble of the German Grundgesetz-Constitutional status and importance of preambles in German law
Author:
Micheal Silagi University of Göttingen Institute of International and European Law D-37073 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5 Göttingen Germany

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Pages:
54–63
Online Publication Date:
12 Mar 2011
Publication Date:
01 Mar 2011
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/ajur.52.2011.1.5
Keywords:
proems to normative acts-nature and legal relevance; preambles in German legislation; the 1949 and 1990 preambles to the Grundgesetz; the precept of reunification of Germany as a normative directive before 1990; the reference to God (invocatio dei)
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Generally, normative acts are passed without preambles in Germany. The federal Basic Law of 1949, like the Weimar Constitution of 1919, however, did contain a preamble, which has been modified in 1990, upon German reunification. The predominant view on that preamble minimizes its importance for the interpretation of the operative sections of the Grundgesetz. Until 1990, the only normative directive read into the preamble by the Constitutional Court was the precept of the reunification of Germany. According to most authorities on constitutional law, the introductory reference to God (nominatio or invocatio dei) has no legal connotation whatsoever.

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