Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde und Carl Schmitt zählen zu den bedeutendsten Staatsrechtlern ihrer Zeit. Eine Verbindung zwischen beiden Staatstheoretikern bestand in einer engen persönlichen Beziehung. Die vorliegende Abhandlung geht der Forschungsfrage nach, ob sich hieraus auch Berührungspunkte zwischen den Staatstheorien der beiden Staatsrechtler ableiten lassen und arbeitet mit diesem Ziel Analogien, aber auch notwendigerweise Diskrepanzen zwischen dem Denken des liberalen Staatsrechtlers Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde in Bezug auf den konservativen Staatstheoretiker Carl Schmitt heraus. Am Ende soll die Frage beantwortet werden, ob es möglich ist, die von Carl Schmitt in seinem Hauptwerk ‚Der Begriff des Politischen‘ niedergelegten Ideen vom Staate (teilweise) liberal zu rezipieren. / Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde and Carl Schmitt count among the most prominent experts for constitutional law within their eras. The two theoreticians were connected by an intensive personal relation. Thus, the research issue of the present thesis consists on the exploration of the possibility to also deduce interrelations between the theories on the state of both scientists. For this reason analogies but also necessarily discrepancies within the ways of thinking of the liberal expert for constitutional law Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde in comparison to the conservative state theoretician Carl Schmitt are elaborated. In conclusion, the question shall be answered, whether it is possible to receive the ideas on the state of Carl Schmitt outlined in his major oeuvre ‘The Notion of Politics’ (partly) in a liberal way.

The main thematic scope and basis of the PhD thesis is the specific movement in the historiography called duchové dějiny (in English partly misleading translation intellectual history) in the form, in which it was developed in German speaking lands as Geistesgeschichte, and in the Czech historiography as duchové dějiny outlined by Zdeněk Kalista. In the PhD thesis duchové dějiny is put into the wide context of the development of historical thinking and methodology in the 19th and 20th century. The PhD thesis treats the subdiscipline of duchové dějiny in many perspectives and at different levels and thematically is not enclosed by the boundaries of the duchové dějiny itself. The duchové dějiny is here in a way an optics through which one line of historiography and historical thinking in the 19th and 20th century is observed, treated and interpreted. The PhD thesis also aims to connect the history and its methodology with the archivistics and archival theory. In this way proposes the thesis certain solutions. Nowadays, duchové dějiny belongs rather to the marginal movements or subdisciplines in the historiography in the Czech and German speaking lands, contrary to intellectual history in Anglophone areas. In spite of this the PhD thesis tried to show, that the duchové dějiny is still alive,...