Edda Weßlau

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Edda Weßlau (born September 9, 1956 in Wolfsburg ; † April 12, 2014 in Bremen ) was a German lawyer and criminal scientist .

biography

Weßlau completed the Theodor Heuss-Gymnasium in Wolfsburg up to the Abitur . From 1977 she studied law at the University of Hamburg , where she worked as a research assistant at Gerhard Fezer's seminar for criminal law and criminology .

She was part of the new editorial team of the quarterly magazine Demokratie und Recht (DuR) after Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Brigitte Zypries left the editorial team when there was a change in the editorial team . The magazine was published by Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag , which was under observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . Later she was part of the editorial team of Critical Justice .

Weßlau received his doctorate in 1988 and qualified as a professor in 1994 . In 1992 their daughter was born. In 1995 she was appointed professor for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Bremen . From 2005 to 2009 she was dean of the legal department there, and from 2007 to 2011 a member of the Bremen State Court . Until recently she was a member of the directorate of the Center for European Legal Policy (ZERP) since 2009 . Edda Weßlau early (1995) criticized the forcible administration of emetics to suspects as illegal, which ultimately led to the death of a black African in 2004 at the hands of a Bremen police doctor.

Publications (selection)

Numerous publications come from Edda Weßlau, especially on criminal procedural law:

  • with Jens von Wedel: A dead ex officio ?: The involvement of the secret service in the Ulrich Schmücker murder case . Initiative for a new Schmücker process , Berlin 1980 and 1981.
  • Preliminary investigations - problems of the legalization of “preventive fight against crime” from a criminal procedural point of view . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-428-06734-7 (= series of criminal law treatises , volume 65, also a dissertation at the University of Hamburg ).
  • The principle of consensus in criminal proceedings - guiding principle for an overall reform? Nomos, Baden-Banden, 2002, ISBN 3-7890-8125-6 ; 2nd edition, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-8305-0495-5 (= criminal law science and criminal law policy , volume 12).
  • "Tormentor dead - woman in court" - The "domestic tyrant murder" - An example of the relationship between dogmatics, reality of life and legal policy . In: Sven Burkhardt u. a. (Ed.) Correspondence. In terms of: prison system, legal cultures, criminal policy, human rights . Lit, Berlin 2005, pp. 368–379, ISBN 978-3-8258-8658-5 (= Bremen research on criminal policy , volume 5).
  • From maintaining morality to victim protection to the location factor - or: What does rational criminal policy mean today? In: Helmut Pollähne, Heino Stöver (eds.): Complements in matters: criminology, drug help, psychotherapy, criminal policy, Lit, Berlin 2010, pp. 251–260, ISBN 978-3-643-10482-3 (= Bremen research on Criminal Policy, Volume 13).

Literature, sources

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Platzdasch: Steinmeier's youth. What doesn't belong together . FAZ.NET , accessed on October 4, 2011.
  2. ↑ Johannes Feest: Lawyer Edda Weßlau died - designer of Bremen law . In: taz ; Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ quoted in: They treat us like animals . Antirassismusbüro, Bremen 1997, p. 245; the full statement can be found in the brochure Police officers who provoke to break , 1995, which was seized by the Bremen public prosecutor
  4. ^ Chronology of the Condé case
personal data
SURNAME Weßlau, Edda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and criminal scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfsburg
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2014
Place of death Bremen