Detlef Krauss

Detlef Krauß (born January 19, 1934 in Kiel , † June 30, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German legal scholar .

Career

Krauss graduated from high school in Wilhelmshaven in 1952 and then studied law in Freiburg, Hamburg and Göttingen. After the two state examinations in 1956 and 1961 and his doctorate , he remained closely connected to his doctoral supervisor Paul Bockelmann . He accompanied him as a research assistant to Heidelberg and to the Institute for Criminology in Munich .

1969 followed the habilitation in Munich on the topic: "The protection of personality in criminal proceedings". In the following year he was offered a professorship for criminal law and as director of the Institute for Legal and Social Philosophy at Saarland University . In 1979 he changed to the chair for criminal law at the University of Basel .

From 1992 to 1999 Krauss held a chair for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the Humboldt University in Berlin . As a member of the personnel and structure committee of the law department, he made a significant contribution to the restructuring of the law faculty after the political change. From 1994 to 1996 he was also first vice president of the university.

Krauss was buried in the Georgen-Parochial-Friedhof in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg .