Felix Herzog

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Felix Herzog (born January 18, 1959 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) is a German legal scholar and professor of criminal law at the University of Bremen . He is the head of the Bremen Research Center for Money Laundering Crime (bfog).

Life

Felix Herzog studied at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and worked there from 1982 to 1990 with Winfried Hassemer , who later became Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court . He received his doctorate in 1986 and completed his habilitation in 1991 with a thesis on dangerous criminal law. In 1992 he accepted an appointment as a professor at the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin , making him the youngest teacher of criminal law in Germany at the time. Felix Herzog has been a liaison professor at the German National Academic Foundation since 1993 and was a member of the ethics committee of the Charité University Hospital in Berlin from 1995 to 2005. Felix Herzog has held a chair in criminal law at the University of Bremen since the summer semester of 2005 . He set up the Bremen Research Center on Money Laundering Crime (bfog) there - also with the help of the acquisition of third-party funds from the economy.

Felix Herzog's scientific interests range from legal philosophy to white-collar crime, where he has emerged through numerous publications on the subject of money laundering . He was several times an expert in the legal and finance committee of the German Bundestag and advises the Association of German Banks on questions of combating money laundering. He is a member of the Center for Philosophical Foundations of Science (ZPhGW) at the University of Bremen and a faculty member of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) .

From July 1, 2009 to March 2, 2011, Felix Herzog was Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Bremen.

Internationally, Felix Herzog is networked with lawyers from Spain and Latin America, while in Europe he maintains close contacts, among other things, with Scandinavian scientists who are organized in the Finnish Center of Excellence Foundations of European Law and Polity, Helsinki.

Felix Herzog is socially engaged in dealing with the issue of right-wing radicalism.

Felix Herzog has two grown daughters.

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