Wolfgang Rüfner

Wolfgang Rüfner received his doctorate in Bonn in 1962 as a student of Ulrich Scheuner and achieved habilitation in 1966 for the subjects of Constitutional and Administrative Law. He was Professor of Public Law at the Universities of Kiel (1969-1979) and of the Saarland (1979-1985), and Professor of Public Law and Canon Law at the University of Cologne. After his retirement, he headed the Institute for State-Church Law of the Dioceses of Germany in Bonn (1998-2010).