Felix Bänziger

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Felix Bänziger (* 1948 ) is a Swiss lawyer .

Life

Bänziger studied law at the University of Freiburg , where he received his doctorate in 1976 . In the same year he became an interrogator in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden . From 1982 to 1987 he was head of the criminal police of the St. Gallen canton police . Bänziger was then a public prosecutor for Appenzell Ausserrhoden, and from 1993 he was also the permanent representative of the federal prosecutor for German-speaking Switzerland . On August 1, 1996, Bänziger was appointed deputy to Federal Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte . From 2001 he was Deputy General Procurator of the Canton of Bern . In September 2009 he was defeated by Rolf Grädel ( SVP ) in the election of the new Bernese general procurator. In December 2009 Bänziger was elected Chief Public Prosecutor for the Canton of Solothurn. He retired at the end of May 2013.

In May 2012, the Government Council of the Canton of Zurich announced that Felix Bänziger had been commissioned to conduct a criminal investigation against Government Councilor Martin Graf . A private person had filed a criminal complaint for abuse of office and violation of official secrecy. On May 27, 2013, the Cantonal Court of Vaud appointed Bänziger to head the administrative investigation into the killing of 19-year-old Marie near Payerne . Bänziger is supposed to investigate the proceedings in the judiciary.

Felix Bänziger was also head of the ombudsman of the Swiss Society for Forensic Medicine (SGRM). He is non-party .

Fonts

  • The protection of third parties in international personal, family and inheritance law in Switzerland (= Swiss studies on international law. Vol. 3). Schulthess, Zurich 1977 ( dissertation , University of Freiburg, 1976).
  • (with August W. Stolz) Code of Criminal Procedure of the Canton of Appenzell A. Rh. of April 30, 1978. 1980. 2nd, completely revised edition: (with August W. Stolz, Walter Kobler) Commentary on the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Canton of Appenzell A. Rh. Cantonal Chancellery, Herisau 1992.
  • (with Luc Leimgruber) The federal government's new involvement in criminal prosecution: short comment on the “efficiency proposal”. Stämpfli, Bern 2001, ISBN 3-7272-9723-9 .
  • (with Erhard Schweri) Intercantonal jurisdiction determination in criminal matters. 2nd, heavily revised and expanded edition. Stämpfli, Bern 2004, ISBN 3-7272-9938-X .
  • (Ed. With Annemarie Hubschmid, Jürg Sollberger ) On the revision of the general part of Swiss criminal law and on the new substantive juvenile criminal law. 2nd, supplemented edition. Stämpfli, Bern 2006, ISBN 3-7272-9171-0 .
  • (with Christoph Burkhard, Charles Haenni) The criminal process in the canton of Bern: 1519 Notes on the transition from Bern law to StPO and JStPO. Stämpfli, Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7272-9795-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Bänziger becomes a substitute for the Federal Prosecutor , press release of the FDJP , website of the federal administration, April 17, 1996, accessed on May 25, 2012.
  2. ↑ SVP Solothurn sends Canton President Müller into the running , Berner Zeitung , updated on December 3, 2009, accessed on May 25, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Guéra becomes Chief Justice, Grädel Procurator General , Der Bund , updated on September 9, 2009, accessed on May 25, 2012.
  4. ↑ Felix Bänziger elected senior public prosecutor , Berner Zeitung , updated on December 9, 2009, accessed on May 25, 2012.
  5. ↑ a b Felix Bänziger is entrusted with the administrative investigation. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from May 17, 2013
  6. ↑ “This method can paralyze entire governments” , NZZ Online , May 11, 2012, accessed on May 25, 2012.
  7. ↑ Ombudsman of the SGRM ( Memento of May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Swiss Society for Forensic Medicine, archive version of September 9, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Bänziger, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1948