Joseph Gerstner (10 October 1830 - 20 March 1883) was an economics professor[1] and a scholar of constitutional law[2] who became a politician (DFP).
[3][4] Ludwig Joseph Gerstner was born into a Catholic family in Burg Abenberg, a small town in the hilly countryside south of Nuremberg.
In his "Basic primer on National Administration" ("Grundlehren der Staatsverwaltung"), a work triggered by the reconfiguration of the Bavarian civil service,[2] he set out to propound a general "organic Christian" theory.
[6][7] Despite the similarity of such aspirations to the natural law doctrines popular during the eighteenth century, they found real resonance in Gerstner's own time, when predicated on the separation between society and the state propounded by Robert von Mohl, and based on a constructive interaction between constitution and administration.
Professor Joseph Gerstner was elected to it, representing the Unterfranken (Lower Franconia) electoral district, which covered Aschaffenburg and Würzburg.