Ernst-Joachim lamp

Ernst-Joachim Lampe (born January 4, 1933 in Opole ) is a German law scholar and former professor at Bielefeld University .

Life

His father brought the lamp from Silesia with his family to Berlin in 1945. After the end of the war, the father, an administrative officer, was arrested by the Soviets and died shortly afterwards in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . It was up to Lampe, now the “man in the family”, to ensure the survival of his family in post-war Berlin. He also attended school and turned to music. In 1950, Lampe passed his Abitur, after which he began studying music, majoring in piano. After just one semester, he gave up again because of the poor earnings prospects for pianists and, contrary to his actual inclinations, enrolled in law . In 1955, after studying law at the universities of Frankfurt , Berlin and Mainz , he completed his law studies with the first state examination in law. He then went on to study the piano again. However, after he was able to show that he had completed his studies, the state no longer granted him orphan's allowance, which is why he had to break off his music studies in 1957 for lack of money and applied for clerkship at the Berlin Court of Justice . In the same year, his dissertation on document offenses, which he had submitted to Werner Niese in Mainz two years earlier, was accepted and Lampe was given the title of Dr. iur. awarded.

After the second state examination in 1961, Lampe devoted himself to his habilitation. He wanted to put this under Niese, who also agreed to do so, but had no vacant assistant position to offer. During his habilitation process, Lampe initially worked as a court assessor for the public prosecutor's office in Moabit. Soon afterwards, Niese Lampe found an assistant position at Peter Noll , who took over the post-doctoral candidate Lampe after Niese's unexpected death. Despite a tense relationship with Noll and the rejection of a first draft of a habilitation thesis based on Noll's taste for legal philosophy, Lampe received his habilitation in 1966 and received the Venia legendi for criminal law, criminal procedure law and legal philosophy. He then worked as a private lecturer in Mainz for five years. During this time, Lampe and his wife set up a law firm in Mainz . In 1971, Lampe was still working when he accepted an offer from Bielefeld University to a chair in criminal law. There he taught and researched until his retirement in 1998.

Works and works (selection)

Since 1964, Lampe had been a member of a working group that dealt with alternative drafts to the Criminal Code . In addition, from 1975 onwards, he acted as an expert in a “Commission of Experts for Combating White-Collar Crime - Reform of White-Collar Criminal Law” set up by the Federal Ministry of Justice . His academic work concentrates on work on general criminal law, especially action theory, legal philosophy , legal theory and legal anthropology .

• Falsification of complete documents and composite documents . Mainz 1957 (dissertation).
• Personal injustice . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1967, ISBN 978-3-428-00889-6 (habilitation thesis).
• Legal Anthropology: A Structural Analysis of Man in Law . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1970, ISBN 978-3-428-02030-0 .
• Legal semantics . Gehlen, Berlin 1970.
• Credit fraud (§ 263, 265 b StGB) . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 978-3-428-04580-8 .
• Genetic Law Theory. Law, evolution and history . Karl Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 1987, ISBN 3-495-47634-2 .
• Limits of legal positivism .: A legal anthropological study . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-428-06417-5 .
• Philosophy of punishment - studies on criminal justice . Carl Heymanns, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3-452-24156-6 .

literature

• Eric Hilgendorf (Ed.): The German-language criminal law science in self-portrayals . De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89949-791-5 , p. 305-344 .
• Dieter Dölling (ed.): Jus humanum: Foundations of law and criminal law. Festschrift for Ernst-Joachim Lampe on his 70th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-428-11390-3 .