Walter Stree

Walter Stree (born May 4, 1923 in Hohn , Rendsburg district ; † June 26, 2006 ) was a German law scholar and university professor.

life and work

Before Stree could take his high school diploma, he was drafted into military service in 1940. There he was wounded several times before he was taken prisoner by the Americans in 1944 and later handed over to France. In 1947 he was released and did his A-levels. From the winter semester 1948/49 he studied law at the University of Kiel . There he passed his first state examination in law in 1952. Then, in addition to his legal clerkship, Stree was a research assistant for Horst Schröder at his chair in Kiel. As early as 1953, Stree was awarded a Dr. iur. doctorate, in 1955 he passed his second state examination. As a result, he became Schröder's research assistant and moved with him to the University of Tübingen . Stree completed his habilitation there in 1959 and received the Venia legendi for the subjects of criminal law and procedural law.

This was followed by a lectureship at the University of Tübingen and professorial chairs at the Universities of Göttingen and Münster . In the summer semester of 1962, Stree accepted the chair of criminal law and procedural law at the University of Münster, which he held until his retirement in 1988. He was also director of the Münster Institute for Criminal Science, and in 1969/70 he was dean of the law faculty of the University of Münster.

According to his venia, Stree mainly dealt with criminal law and procedural law. One focus here was the relation to the Basic Law and the procedural and rule of law principles anchored there. In criminal law, he focused in particular on the general part, criminal law doctrine and crimes of bodily harm. He was also a long-time commentator at Schönke / Schröder .

Fonts (selection)

• Equal rights for men and women in working life . Universitätsverlag, Kiel 1953 (dissertation).
• Consequences of the offense and the Basic Law: On the constitutionality of penalties and other criminal measures . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1960 (habilitation thesis).
• In dubio pro reo . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1962.

literature

• Theodor Lenckner : On Walter Stree's 70th birthday in: JZ 1993, p. 454 ff.
• Wilfried Küper and Jürgen Welp (Hrsg.er): Contributions to jurisprudence: Festschrift for Walter Stree and Johannes Wessels on their 70th birthday . CF Müller, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 978-3-8114-0893-7 .