German historical school

This is an article about a school of thought in the area of law. For economics, see historical school of economics.

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Principles Christian values Duty Elitism Aristocracy Meritocracy Gemeinschaft Heimat In Treue fest Kultur Medievalism Monarchism Organicism  Patriotism Prussian virtues Sittlichkeit Social hierarchy Social market economy Sonderweg Subsidiarity Traditional authority Volksgeist
History 20 July plot Anti-Socialist Laws Erklärung 2018 Freikorps German Reich German Empire German reunification Historikerstreit The Junkers Monarchism in Bavaria after 1918 Oster conspiracy
Intellectuals Gadamer von Galen Gehlen von Gerlach Görres Hegel Jünger (Ernst) Jünger (Friedrich) Koselleck Mann (early) Möser Moeller van den Bruck Müller Nolte Novalis von Ranke Rauschning Ritter (Gerhard) Ritter (Joachim) Röpke Rüstow von Savigny Schlegel Schmitt Spaemann Spengler Stahl Stoecker Strauss Tönnies von Treitschke Voegelin Wackenroder
Works Addresses to the German Nation (1806) Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820) Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837) Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (1918) The Decline of the West (1918, 1922) Prussianism and Socialism (1919) The Concept of the Political (1932) On the Marble Cliffs (1939)
Politicians Adenauer von Bismarck Dregger Fehrenbach Filbinger von Gerlach  Goerdeler Hugenberg Jung  Kohl Merkel Merz von Papen Rauschning von Schleicher Stresemann vom Stein von Storch Strauss Weidel von Westarp
Parties Active Alternative for Germany Christian Democratic Union of Germany Christian Social Union in Bavaria Centre Party The Republicans Defunct Bavarian People's Party Conservative Party Free Conservative Party German Conservative Party German National People's Party German People's Party
Organisations Forum of German Catholics Gerhard Löwenthal Prize German Burschenschaft Hanns Seidel Foundation Hans Filbinger Foundation Konrad Adenauer Foundation Queen Louise League Studienzentrum Weikersheim Tradition und Leben
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The German historical school of jurisprudence is a 19th-century intellectual movement in the study of German law. With Romanticism as its background, it conceived of law as the organic expression of a national consciousness (Volksgeist). It stood in opposition to an earlier movement called Vernunftrecht ('rational law').