Alexander Böhm (legal scholar)

Alexander Böhm (born June 14, 1929 in Berlin ; † May 12, 2006 in Oppershofen ) was a German legal scholar and criminologist .

Life

His parents were the lawyer Franz Böhm and Marietta Böhm, b. Ceconi, the daughter of the writer Ricarda Huch . Ricarda Huch was very fond of her grandson Alexander and always called him “Kander”.

From 1938 to 1945 Böhm attended the humanistic high school Carolo-Alexandrinum in Jena , then the humanistic Friedrich-Gymnasium Freiburg (im Breisgau), where he passed the school leaving examination in 1947. There he began to study law, which he continued in Basel and Frankfurt am Main . Here he passed the first state examination in law in 1951 and the second in 1956 . In 1957 he was at the University Johann Wolfgang Goethe in Frankfurt, one of Wolfgang Preiser supervised work on the legal duty to act in the spurious omission offenses doctorate .

From 1957 to 1974 Böhm worked in the public service of the State of Hesse in the area of penal systems, most recently as head of the Rockenberg juvenile prison .

In 1974 Böhm accepted a chair for criminology , criminal law and the penal system at the University of Mainz . From 1988 Böhm was also a part-time judge at the Palatinate Higher Regional Court in Zweibrücken .

Böhm had been a member of the German Association for Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Court Aid since 1962 and from 1980 to 1989 chairman of the Hesse State Group, whose work he actively supported until the end.

Since the founding of the Weißer Ring association in Mainz in 1976, Böhm has made an outstanding contribution as a founding member to the establishment of this association and the improvement of the legal situation of the victims of crime. Most recently he headed the Advisory Board for Criminal Law.

Böhm headed the commission of the Federal Ministry of Justice , which worked out a draft for a youth penal law from 1976 to 1980.

Services

Boehm made important scientific contributions to juvenile justice , to juvenile delinquency and rehabilitation of young people.

Honors

• Festschrift for Alexander Böhm for his 70th birthday on June 14, 1999. Ed. Wolfgang Feuerhelm, Hans-Dieter Schwind , Michael Bock , Berlin, New York 1999. XIII, 869 pages. ISBN 978-3-11-015696-6

Obituaries

• Sigrun Gatti et al .: Obituary. Prof. Dr. jur. Alexander Boehm. in: JOGU. The magazine of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, No. 197, 2006, p. 29.

• Bodo Gemper: In memoriam Professor Alexander Böhm. in: The Schnapphans. Jenaer Heimatbrief, 91st edition, 2006, pp. 60–65.

• Heinz Schöch: In grateful memory of Prof. Dr. Alexander Böhm, co-founder and companion. in: WEISSER RING, Zs. f. Victim protection u. Prevention, Vol. 28, 2006, no. 3, p. 25.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alexander Böhm in the catalog of the German National Library