Christiaan F. Rüter

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Christiaan Frederik Rüter (1976)

Christiaan Frederik Rüter (* 1938 ) is a Dutch professor for criminal law and is an expert in dealing with Nazi trials .

research

Rüter studied law at the University of Amsterdam and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. He was deputy judge at the Amsterdam Regional Court and from 1972 to 2003 professor of criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Amsterdam. In addition, he acts as deputy chairman of the international advisory board of the Topography of Terror Foundation in Berlin and is a member of the board of trustees of the Austrian Post-War Justice Research Center .

Rüter is largely responsible for the Justice and Nazi Crimes project at the Law Faculty of the University of Amsterdam, which has been dedicated to the investigation, documentation and publication of criminal trials on Nazi homicide crimes in East and West Germany since the 1960s. Under the editorship of Rüter and Dick de Mildt , a total of 63 volumes with around 3,200 judgments from around 1,900 proceedings were published. For this purpose, Rüter developed a system of categories with various characteristics related to the offender, perpetrator and victim, which is also used in other countries. The Austrian research on post-war justice and the project to record the Dachau trials before American military courts work with this system. The entire collection of judgments has also been available online since the end of 2008.

Statement on the indictment against Demjanjuk

Rüter criticized the charges against John Demjanjuk . Rüter explained to the SWR that it was "completely a mystery to him how anyone who knows the German case law up to now can think that one ... Demjanjuk can be convicted on the basis of this evidence." He criticized the lack of standard analyzes of documents as well as serious investigative errors.

Works

  • Christiaan F. Rüter / Dick W. de Mildt (ed.): Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of (West) German criminal convictions for Nazi homicide crimes, 1945–2012. 49 vols., Amsterdam, Munich 1968–2012
  • Christiaan F. Rüter / Dick W. de Mildt (ed.): GDR justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of (East) German criminal judgments for Nazi homicide crimes, 1945–1998. 14 vols., Amsterdam, Munich 2002–2009

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Overview of the West German proceedings. (No longer available online.) University of Amsterdam, archived from the original on June 21, 2013 ; Retrieved August 15, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.jur.uva.nl
  2. Overview of the East German proceedings. (No longer available online.) University of Amsterdam, archived from the original on June 22, 2013 ; Retrieved August 15, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.jur.uva.nl
  3. Andreas Wirsching: From law to history. Files from Nazi trials as sources of contemporary history . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-35500-8 , p. 239, 250ff.
  4. ^ The case of Ivan Demjanjuk. ( Memento of March 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Documentation, SWR, Dec 1, 23: 30-00: 15
  5. War crimes in court. How certain is the evidence against Demjanjuk? . Report Mainz, ARD, June 8, 2009, 9.45 p.m.