Günter Kohlmann

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Günter M. Kohlmann (born October 4, 1933 in Hindenburg , Upper Silesia , † October 31, 2005 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer, legal scholar and professor of criminal law .

Life

Günter Kohlmann, born in Upper Silesia, fled with his family to the Rhineland via Breslau , Dresden and Berlin in 1945 . In 1954 he began studying law at the University of Cologne . There he also became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Grotenburg (Detmold) to Cologne in the CV . In 1960 he was at the University of Cologne with Ulrich Klug with the work of the subjective-public right to faultless discretion use his doctorate . In 1968 he completed his habilitation with the work The Concept of State Secret and the Constitutional Requirement for the Definiteness of Criminal Regulations .

Grave (Melaten cemetery)

In 1969, he received a call to the Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Philosophy of Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1971 Kohlmann moved to the University of Cologne, where he also became director of the Criminal Science Institute. From 1983 to 1985 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law, and in 1993/94 Kohlmann was first Vice-Rector at the University of Cologne.

Günter Kohlmann became known as a defense attorney in the proceedings for the bankruptcy of the Cologne bank Herstatt , in the process against the Bavarian spa king Zwick and in various lawsuits against the former CDU federal treasurer Walther Leisler Kiep . He was also a legal advisor to Konrad Henkel and Hans Gerling .

Kohlmann published numerous publications, in particular on criminal tax law and white collar crime .

He was married twice and had five children. His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (MA at hall 70).

literature

  • Patrick Kohlmann: Günter Kohlmann. A legal life. Publishing house Dr. Otto Schmidt, Cologne 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is who? The German Who's Who. 42nd edition. P. 768.
personal data
SURNAME Kohlmann, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohlmann, Günter M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Hindenburg (Upper Silesia)
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 2005
Place of death Cologne