Berthold Freudenthal
Berthold Freudenthal (born August 23, 1872 in Breslau ; † July 13, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German criminal lawyer .
Life
Berthold Freudenthal's parents were the historian of philosophy Jakob Freudenthal (1839–1907) and his wife Therese, née Sachs. Freudenthal studied law at the universities of Breslau , Tübingen and Berlin . In 1895 he received his doctorate and worked as a court assessor. From 1905 he worked at the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences in Frankfurt am Main, where he was rector from 1909 to 1911. From 1914 he was a professor at the law faculty at the newly founded University of Frankfurt am Main and at the same time its first dean.
He advocated the establishment of the juvenile court (1908) and juvenile prisons in Germany as well as an educational penal system. On the basis of his memorandum, the first juvenile prison was founded in Wittlich / Eifel (1911).
Freudenthal was married to the sociologist and women's rights activist Margarete (Grete) [Sallis-] Freudenthal.
Major works
- The status of the prisoner under constitutional law , 1910
- Criminal Law and the Rule of Law , 1918
- Against extradition , 1920
- Guilt and Accusation , 1922
- The draft penal law of 1927 , 1932
literature
- Dietrich Lang-Hinrichsen : Freudenthal, Berthold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 411 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Berthold Freudenthal in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grete Freudenthal did her doctorate under Karl Mannheim in 1933 and then emigrated to Palestine. It also plays a role in the biography of Norbert Elias (see here ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freudenthal, Berthold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German criminal lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1929 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |