Ernst Rudolf Huber

Ernst Rudolf Huber (8 June 1903 – 28 October 1990) was a German jurist, noted as a constitutional historian and for his attempts to provide a legal underpinning for the Nazi regime.

Like Georg Dahm and Karl Larenz, Huber (who joined the Nazi Party on 1 May 1933) belonged to the "Kiel school" of constitutional law, which attempted to legitimize the Führerstaat, Adolf Hitler's dictatorship, by constructing a legal structure to anchor it in the German state as the source of all legitimate power.

Because of this, he was excluded from the public law scholars' association in 1956, and did not find work as an ordinary professor until 1962, when he was appointed to a chair in Göttingen.

After the end of the 1930s, Huber's work focused on the history of German constitutional law.

This culminated in his Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte seit 1789, which covered mainly Prussian constitutional law from 1789 to 1933, and was published in eight volumes between 1957 and 1990.