... At the instigation of Fritz Bauer (Jewish judge and Nazi prosecutor) the building of the Braunschweig Regional Court and former building of the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor's Office bears the complete sentence 1 of Article 1 of the Basic Law on its façade....the Basic Law was ratified in 1949 four years after the end of the Nazi tyranny and the modern German state was created... the creators decided that human dignity should be paramount in the new law... so that nothing like the Nazi era ever happens again in Germany... with nice stamp and great special postmark👍to marks the 75th anniversary of the German Basic Law... Thanks a lot Dustin!【ツ】
"Human dignity is inviolable. All authorities have a duty to protect it" as stated in Germany's Constitution © Photo: KLaus Ebach
The Basic Law (Grundgesetz) contains the state’s duty to respect and protect human dignity. This means that not only the state itself is prohibited from disregarding human dignity. At the same time, the state must take precautions to prevent anyone’s dignity from being violated by private actors. The principle of human dignity therefore has an impact on civil law and can, for example, lead to the invalidity of a contract if it violates the dignity of one of the contracting parties.
Seventy-five years later, this constitutional “makeshift” can still be considered one of the most modern and successful constitutions around the globe. Even in times of authoritarian tides rising, the radiance of the German constitutional tradition and praxis is globally unbroken and has influenced the evolution of European constitutional development and beyond over the last decades.
Stamp:
The 75th Anniversary of the Basic Law
(Issued 02-05-2024)
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