Peter Saladin (1935 – 1997)
Peter Saladin (1935 – 1997)

Summary/Abstract: Peter Saladin (1935-1997) is one of the outstanding scientists in the field of public law at the end of the 20th century. As a professor for constitutional and ecclesiastical law in Bern (Switzerland), he founded a new understanding of the individual rights. Up to the 1970th they were considered having only a programmatic function (without obligation of the state). Saladin required that the legislation be bound by these rights and obliged to realize them through appropriate laws. The second field of Saladins activities was the protection of the environment, for which he engaged since the 1980th. He required independent rights for “the nature” (animals) and created the declaration for the rights of the future generations (analogue to the declaration of rights of the French Revolution 1789), which is up to our days a main – or the main task for the state and the individual. Saladin is one of the pioneers in the environmental protection for which he dedicated his whole life. In the present dissipated views of scientists in very specialist fields, he kept the overlook over the whole system of the environmental problem. This pioneer should serve as a guiding figure for the younger generations in all countries.

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