Erich Buchholz (lawyer)

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Erich Buchholz (born February 8, 1927 in Berlin ; † December 11, 2020 ) was a German lawyer and author . 1991 was East Germany - criminal lawyer from the Humboldt University of Berlin dismissed and then represented as a defender accused in the wall protecting processes .

Life

Erich Buchholz attended the Luisengymnasium in Berlin from 1933 and passed the Abitur there. Since 1946 he was a member of the SED . From 1948 to 1952 Buchholz studied law at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he worked as a research assistant. 1956 Buchholz at Humboldt University with the work was The judicial sentencing in the German Democratic Republic to the Dr. jur. PhD . In 1963 he qualified as a professor with the text Theft and its fight in the German Democratic Republic . Since 1957 the lawyer has worked as a lecturer, since 1965 as a professor with teaching assignment, and later as a full professorand head of the Institute for Criminal Law. In 1966 he was appointed Dean of the Law Faculty and in 1976 Director of the Law Section. Buchholz was also the chairman of the legal advisory board at the minister for higher education and technical schools. Since 1952 Buchholz has published articles in magazines and books as well as monographs.

In 1991 he was dismissed from the university as a professor. After 1990, Buchholz was admitted to the bar and appeared as a defense attorney in several wall rifle trials . There he took the position that the killed refugees had "caused their own death" by going into minefields or exposing themselves to gunfire.

Publications

  • Punishment for what? State Publishing House of the GDR, 1968
  • Bad economic decision or criminal act? State Publishing House of the GDR, 1971
  • Problems of a legal education theory. Akademie-Verlag, 1982
  • with Karl-Heinz Röder : Remarkable findings from a critical criminologist from the USA. Neue Justiz, 3/82, page 114 ff.
  • with Irmgard Buchholz: On the personality concept in socialist criminal law. State and Law, 10/82, page 932 ff.
  • with Ulrich Dähn: Further strengthening of socialist legality and development of the driving forces of socialist society. State and Law, 5/85, page 421 ff.
  • What is criminal State and Law 7/86, page 558 ff.
  • with Karl A. Mollnau: Legal security is part of the quality of life in our society. New Germany, June 18/19, 1988, p. 11 ff.
  • GDR criminal law Passé - considerations on a criminal law of the future, in: Uwe Ewald, Kersten Woweries (ed.) Development perspectives of crime and criminal law, Festschrift für John Lekschas, Bonn 1992, pp. 253–264.
  • Winning justice? Political prosecution as a result of German unity . Kai Homilius Verlag , Berlin 2003.
  • Unjust state of the GDR? - constitutional state FRG? Edition Ost , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-360-01077-3 .
  • Defend against injustice . Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2006.
  • Legal considerations from LINKS . Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2007.
  • Criminal Law in the East . Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2008.
  • Surveillance state. The Federal Republic and the "War on Terror" . Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2009.
  • Total liquidation in two acts. Legal annexation of the GDR . Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2009.
  • 1949 - a constitution here, a constitution there . Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2009.
  • The socialist constitution of the GDR from 1968. In: Unter Feuer. The counter-revolution in the GDR . Verlag Offensiv, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-026316-3 .
  • GDR law under the federal eagle . Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2010.
  • Legal wins? - What rights did the GDR citizens gain by joining? Have you lost your rights? Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-939828-54-9 .
  • Claim and Reality. How the German citizen experiences the rule of law . Edition Ost, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-360-01817-5 .
  • Justice looks different, of course . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-360-02074-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See author profile at Kai Homilius Verlag ( Memento from April 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 17, 2011.
  2. ^ A b Cf. Roman Grafe : Honeckers Menschenjäger . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 5, 2005, accessed on December 29, 2015.
  3. ↑ Quotation from Roman Grafe: Honeckers Menschenjäger , FAZ from April 5, 2005, accessed on December 29, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Buchholz, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2020