Armin Kaufmann (lawyer)

Armin Kaufmann (born July 6, 1922 in Banteln , † March 20, 1985 in Bad Honnef ) was a German legal scholar and professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1940, Kaufmann served as a soldier in World War II , where he was wounded several times and received several awards. After the end of the war, he began to study law at the University of Göttingen in the winter semester 1945/46 . After his first state exam doctorate merchant there in 1952 under Hans Welzel Dr. iur. Shortly afterwards, he joined the University of Bonn as Welzel's assistant . There, Kaufmann completed his habilitation in 1956 with a fundamental thesis on omission offenses and received the venia legendi for the subjects of criminal law and legal philosophy. After several years as a private lecturer, he was appointed associate professor at the University of Tübingen in 1960 . From 1962 until his early death in 1985, Kaufmann was a full professor of criminal law and legal philosophy at the University of Bonn. There he was dean of the law faculty in 1964/65 and elected senator in 1967/68.

Works and works (selection)

Kaufmann's work focuses on criminal law and its dogmatics. He was best known for the so-called function theory founded by him and the associated distinction between guarantors in protector and supervisor guarantors .

• The living and the dead in Binding's theory of norms: norm logic and modern criminal law dogmatics . Schwartz, Göttingen 1954 (dissertation).
• The dogmatics of omission offenses . Schwartz, Göttingen 1959 (habilitation thesis).

literature

• Gerhard Dornseifer , Eckhard Horn et. alt .: memorial for Armin Kaufmann . Carl Heymanns, Cologne 1989, ISBN 978-3-452-21468-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Armin Kaufmann in the catalog of the German National Library