Frank Zieschang

Frank Zieschang (* 1963 in Cologne ) is a German lawyer and professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Life

Zieschang studied law at the Universities of Cologne and Clermont-Ferrand from 1983 to 1989 . After his first state examination in law, he worked at the University of Cologne as a research assistant for Michael Walter at the criminal science institute there. He ended this activity in 1991 with the completion of his doctorate under Walter. This work was awarded the Research Prize of the University of Cologne in 1992. Zieschang passed his second state examination in 1994 after completing his legal clerkship in Cologne. He then worked on his habilitation, which he completed in 1998, while still in Cologne. He was thus awarded the venia legendi for the subjects of criminal law , criminal procedure law and comparative criminal law.

In the 1998/99 winter semester, he held a chair at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In the following summer semester he held his first full professorship at the University of Bochum . In the next semester he left Bochum again and moved to Würzburg. At the Julius Maximilians University there , he has held the chair for criminal law and criminal procedure law since the winter semester 1999/2000. From 2007 to 2008 he was dean of the local law faculty.

In addition to substantive criminal law, Zieschang teaches and researches in particular on comparative criminal law and international criminal law, with a focus on French criminal law .

Works (selection) and editorships

• The system of sanctions in the reform of French criminal law in comparison with German criminal law . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-428-07478-5 . (Dissertation)
• The endangering offenses . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-428-09476-9 . (Habilitation thesis)
• Criminal law general part . 4th edition. Boorberg, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-415-05296-3 .

Web links

• Zieschang's CV at the University of Würzburg
• On the offense of the suppression of documents in the case of thwarting the state criminal claim - comment on the decision of the Federal Court of Justice of July 27, 2012 (BGH 1 StR 238/12) , article in the online journal HRRS .