Bernhard Haffke

Bernhard Haffke (* 1943 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer and former professor at the University of Passau .

Life

After graduating from the Ratsgymnasium Hannover in 1962, Haffke began studying philosophy and law at the University of Göttingen . After passing the first state examination in law in 1966, he completed his second state examination in Lower Saxony. In the same year he received his doctorate in Göttingen at Claus Roxin Dr. iur. After working as a research assistant at Roxin in Göttingen and later in Munich and studying depth psychology , Haffke completed his habilitation in 1974 in Munich.

In 1975 Haffke had a teaching position at the University of Heidelberg and from 1977 at the University of Hanover . From 1983 to 1985 he held a chair at the University of Frankfurt am Main . Haffke worked as a lawyer in Wolfratshausen from 1982 to 1989. From 1989 until his release in 2008 he held the chair for criminal law, criminal procedure law, commercial criminal law and criminal law history at the University of Passau . His successor in Passau was Armin Englander . He was also head of the Institute for Conflict Research in Cologne from 1996 to 2000. Haffke has been working as a lawyer in Passau again since 2008.

Publications (selection)

• The prohibition of retroactive effect in Article 103 of the Basic Law in the event of a change in case law on substantive law. At the same time a contribution to the problem of criminal liability . Universitätsverlag, Göttingen 1970. (Dissertation)
• Depth psychology and general prevention. An investigation into criminal law . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 978-3-7941-1494-8 . (Habilitation thesis)

literature

• Werner Beulke , Klaus Lüderssen , Andreas Popp , Petra Wittig : The dilemma of the constitutional criminal law: Symposium for Bernhard Haffke on the 65th birthday, 28./29. March 2009, University of Passau . BWV, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8305-1719-1 .

Web links

• Haffke at his former chair at the University of Passau.
• Haffke at his current law firm.
• Haffke's speech on the occasion of Fritz Bauer's 100th birthday .
• From the rule of law to the security state? , Haffke's opening lecture for the 29th Defense Defense Day, Aachen 2005.