Ernst Delaquis

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Ernst Delaquis (born November 13, 1878 in Alexandria , Egypt , † September 1, 1951 in Davos ) was a Swiss law scholar and university professor .

life and work

Delaquis, son of the businessman Jacob Auguste Delaquis and his wife Marie, studied law at the universities of Heidelberg , Munich and Berlin from 1898 after graduating from high school in St. Gallen . After graduating in Berlin, he worked as an assistant to Franz von Liszt and, under his supervision, received his doctorate in 1904 with a thesis on the unsuitable attempt to obtain a Dr. iur. In 1907 he completed his habilitation in Berlin and received the venia legendi for criminal law and criminal procedure law.

From 1914 to 1919 he was associate professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1919 he became head of the police department of the Federal Department of Justice and Police . At the same time he was honorary professor for international criminal law, prison studies and canon law at the University of Bern . In 1929 he accepted an offer from the University of Hamburg to a full chair for criminal law and criminal procedure law, which he held until 1934. From 1932 he was also a Swiss consul . In 1934 he became director of the Swiss Touring Club , which he remained until 1938. At the same time he was an honorary professor at the University of Geneva . From 1938 to 1949 he was Secretary General of the International Criminal Law and Prison Commission in Bern, and since 1944 also a full professor at the University of Bern. In 1949 he resigned from his posts for health reasons.

Delaquis' research and publication focus lay primarily in criminal policy, the prison system and criminal law reform. His writings had a significant influence on the Criminal Laws Act and the Criminal Records Ordinance of 1920 as well as on the standardization of Swiss criminal law. Shaped by his teacher Liszt, Delaquis became one of the most important representatives of the modern sociological conception of criminal law founded by Liszt.

Delaquis was married to Charlotte Névir since 1908, with whom he had a total of two daughters and a son.

Works (selection)

  • On the doctrine of the unsuitable attempt . Ernst Reimer, Berlin 1904 (dissertation).
  • The rehabilitation of convicts . De Gruyter, Berlin 1906.
  • Rehabilitation In Criminal Law . De Gruyter, Berlin 1907.

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personal data
SURNAME Delaquis, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria , Egypt
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1951
Place of death Davos