Die Zulässigkeit der Allgemeinverfügung als Rechtsform befehlender Hoheitsakte

'The Admissibility of the General Decree as a Legal Form of Commanding Sovereign Acts': The study deals with the essential questions of the issuance of general decrees in the field of hazard prevention. Official measures that were issued as general decrees but should have been enacted as legal norms are null and void. Based on the current state of the discussion in jurisdiction and literature on the delimitation of legal norms and individual acts, the treatise establishes guidelines for administrative action in the legal form of general decrees and their review by the courts.