Creifelds (legal dictionary)

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The Creifelds is a legal dictionary in the form of a lexicon from the CH Beck publishing house . It explains more than 12,000 terms from various fields of law on around 1,600 pages . The work is part of the legal standard literature in Germany. The 23rd edition is currently available in 2019.

Hans Dieter Beck had the idea for the dictionary in June 1965. He hired the lawyer Carl Creifelds as author and editor. Creifelds himself took on the processing of general legal terms as well as terms from the areas of criminal law , criminal procedure law , traffic law , legal history and legal philosophy . Other authors of the first edition, which appeared in 1968, were Dieter Guntz, Paul Henssler, Hans Kauffmann, Hans Putzo , Hans Stöer and Alfred Wagner.

Carl Creifelds worked until the 8th edition (1986) as an editor of his - in his own words - "favorite work". Even after his death in 1994, the legal dictionary continues to appear under his name. The publisher has been Klaus Weber since the 14th edition.

literature

  • Hans Dieter Beck: Carl Creifelds. In: A portrait of lawyers. Publisher and authors in 4 decades. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1988. pp. 93-97. ISBN 3406331963