Background
Häberle, Peter was born on May 13, 1934 in Göppingen, Germany. Son of Hugo and Ursula (Riebensahm) Häberle.
Häberle, Peter was born on May 13, 1934 in Göppingen, Germany. Son of Hugo and Ursula (Riebensahm) Häberle.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Freiburg, Germany, 1961. Habilitation, University Freiburg, Germany, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Aristoteles University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1994.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Granada, Spain, 2000.
In 1961 he received his juris doctor under supervision of Konrad Hesse at the faculty of law, University of Freiburg. His thesis, titled "Die Wesensgehaltgarantie des Artist 19 Abs. 2 Grundgesetz", became both influential and controversial.
After deputizing as professor in Tübingen he became a professor of law in Marburg himself.
Later he moved to the Universities of Augsburg and Bayreuth. He briefly served as visitant professor at the University of Saint Gallen (1982–1999).
Häberle"s works have been translated into 18 languages. He was honored by an international Festschrift for his 70th birthday.
In 1994 Peter Häberle received the honorary doctorate of the faculty of law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 2000, 2003 and 2007 from the respective faculties in Granada, the Catholic University of Lima and the University of Lisbon.
In 2005 the University of Brasília awarded him with an honorary doctorate. Further honors have included the "Great officer of the Republic of Italia"-order, the medals of honor of the Constitutional courts in Rome and Lima, the German and the Bavarian cross of merit. Peter Häberle supervised the 2006 doctoral thesis of German politician Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg.
Guttenberg"s dissertation was later shown to contain copies of texts from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a speech by his predecessor as defense minister, and many other sources, including his main supervisor, Häberle himself.
The dissertation had been awarded a rare "summa cum laude" ("with highest honor"), as recommended by Häberle. However, the Doctor of Philosophy degree was revoked in February 2011 for extensive violations of regulations concerning the citation of sources.
However, he later said that his first spontaneous reaction had been "too rash" and that he hadn"t been aware of the extent of the flaws in Guttenberg"s dissertation. Häberle said that these flaws were "severe" and "not acceptable".
He did not address his own failure to identify the flaws of the dissertation.
Initially Häberle had defended the thesis of Guttenberg, whom he considered "one of his best students", against accusations of plagiarism, calling them "absurd".
Member German Association Constitutional Law professors, Science Council of the Human Rights Institute of the University Carlos III, Philadelphia Constitution Foundation (German correspondent).