Adolf Schönke

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Adolf Schönke (born August 20, 1908 in Weißwasser ; † May 1, 1953 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German legal scholar and professor in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Life

The son of a master upholsterer in Weißwasser attended a modern language grammar school in Berlin and studied there at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . After six semesters, he passed his first state examination in 1931 and the second state examination in 1934, each with the grade “good”. Adolf Schönke became an assistant at the faculty and received his doctorate in 1932 under James Goldschmidt with a thesis on "The binding of the court of appeal to the judgment of the court of appeal according to § 565 II ZPO" ( magna cum laude ). Stefan Riesenfeld “remembers [...] that in 1932 there was a very good trainee lawyer in the office in which he also worked, namely Schönke, who had always come in SA uniform back then, on the grounds that he wanted to protect the office want. ”In the course of the National Socialist“ seizure of power ”he joined the NSDAP in May 1933 . Later he was still a member of the Nazi Lecturer Association and the Nazi Legal Guardian Association .

In 1934 he became a court assessor in the Reich Ministry of Justice for criminal law reform. In 1937 he was appointed to the district judge. In 1937 he completed his habilitation at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin for the subjects of criminal and civil procedure law . Schönke was regarded as a proven expert in international law. In 1938 he moved to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . At his suggestion, the seminar for foreign and international criminal law was set up in Freiburg , from which the Max Planck Institute for foreign and international criminal law later emerged. During the Second World War he was dean and vice dean and in 1944 he became vice rector. Shortly before the end of the war, he turned away from National Socialism and protested against the arrest of Freiburg professors in the grate action .

Nothing is known about its denazification . In December 1945 his former habilitation supervisor Eduard Kohlrausch complained that Schönke only (!) Describes himself as a student and assistant to Goldschmidt. For the French occupation administration, he prepared an expert opinion on which of the elements of criminal law enacted after 1933 should be repealed.

After Adolf Schönke's early death in 1953, Hans-Heinrich Jescheck was appointed his successor at the institute on April 1, 1954 .

Works

Schönke was the author of textbooks on civil procedure law and enforcement law and an introduction to law. His most widespread work, however, is a commentary on the Reich Criminal Code, which he oversaw until its 6th edition. This comment on the penal code , the Schönke / Schröder , is one of the leading comments today.

  • Civil procedural law. A systematic representation. v. Decker, Berlin 1928.
  • Contributions to the teaching of the adhesion process. de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1935.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolf Schönke in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible).
  2. ↑ Anna-Maria von Lösch: The naked spirit. The Law Faculty of Berlin University in Change 1933 , Tübingen 1999, p. 340 ff.
  3. ↑ Interview with Riesenfeld on June 6, 1994, quoted from: Anna-Maria von Lösch: Der nackte Geist. The Law Faculty of the Berlin University in transition 1933 , Tübingen 1999, p. 340 f. Zugl .: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 1998/99.
  4. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 556.
  5. ^ History. Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law , accessed on January 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Anna-Maria von Lösch: The naked spirit: the law faculty of the Berlin University in transition 1933 , p. 343.
personal data
SURNAME Schönke, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH White water
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1953
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau