Anne-Eva Brauneck

Anne-Eva Brauneck (born December 9, 1910 in Hamburg ; † March 6, 2007 in Lich ) was the first German professor of criminal law and criminology and the second German professor of law .

Life

Brauneck studied law at the end of the Weimar Republic at the University of Heidelberg . She was one of the last students of the criminal lawyer, legal philosopher and former Reich Minister of Justice Gustav Radbruch . In 1936 she received her doctorate with Rudolf Sieverts with the thesis “Pestalozzi's position on criminal law problems” and in 1937 she passed the second state examination in law. Despite her qualifications as a fully qualified lawyer, she was only employed in the higher service of the police. There she also passed the criminal assistant exam. She turned to studies of the family backgrounds of juvenile delinquents. Their work was suspected by the National Socialists, as they did not confirm the politically desired thesis of the hereditary nature of crime in their studies.

After the Second World War she also studied psychology and became a research assistant to the Hamburg professor and president of the Rectors' Conference of Rudolf Sievert . As a woman, she had to fight for the possibility of a habilitation. In 1961 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the development of juvenile offenders. However, the subject of criminology was not yet recognized as an independent subject in Hamburg. Her venia legendi therefore included the subjects of “criminal law and criminal law auxiliary sciences”. In 1965 she was appointed to the chair for “criminal law and criminology” at the University of Giessen . The chair was later rededicated to one for “criminology and criminal policy”. After Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher , who had held a chair for civil law and German legal history at the University of Halle-Wittenberg since 1948 , she was the second law professor in Germany.

She has rendered outstanding services to the German Association of Women Lawyers, the German Association for Juvenile Courts and Judicial Assistance, the scientific and political reform working group of "alternative professors", the Humanist Union and the monthly magazine for criminology and criminal law reform . In 1975 she retired. She has three habilitation students. She died on March 6, 2007 at the age of 96 in Lich and was buried in Hamburg.

Works

• Pestalozzi's position on the problems of criminal law. (Dissertation, Hamburg 1936)
• with Knut Pipping and Rudolf Abshagen : Conversations with German youth. A contribution to the problem of authority , Helsingfors 1954
• The evolution of juvenile offenders. (Habilitation thesis, Hamburg 1961)
• General criminology. (1970)
• Feeling and thinking. (1997)

Web links

• Literature by and about Anne-Eva Brauneck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Arthur Kreuzer : On the death of Anne-Eva Brauneck (PDF file; 48 kB), monthly for criminology and criminal law reform 90, 2007, pp. 351–359.