Gerardus Antonius van Hamel

GA van Hamel (Portrait of Hart Nibbrig)

Gerardus Antonius van Hamel (born January 17, 1842 in Haarlem , † March 1, 1917 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch criminal lawyer and liberal politician. He was a representative of the "modern school of criminal law" and founded the International Criminological Association with Adolphe Prins and Franz von Liszt . As a representative for the Liberals , he sat in the Second Chamber of the States General from 1910 .

Life

Van Hamel came from an old Huguenot family and was the twin brother of the Romanist A. G. van Hamel (1842–1907). He studied law in Groningen and Leiden and received his doctorate in Leiden in 1865 with the private law work De nietigheid van den verkoop van eens anders goed . From 1865 to 1871 he initially worked as a lawyer in Leiden. On April 1, 1871 he was deputy public prosecutor in Heerenveen and from March 1, 1874 in Rotterdam . On June 1, 1878, he moved to the Dutch Ministry of War as legal advisor.

In 1870 van Hamel initiated the establishment of the Dutch Lawyers Association. In 1880 he was appointed to succeed Emilio Brusas as professor of criminal law at the University of Amsterdam . In 1890/91 he was the rector of the university. Politically, he was involved in the Liberal Union , which he co-founded in 1885, and of which he was chairman from 1885 to 1887 and 1895/6. In 1892 he moved into the provincial parliament of North Holland , to which he belonged until his death. When he was offered the Ministry of Justice in 1905, however, he turned it down. From 1909 until his death he was a member of the Second Chamber of the States General . From 1910 he also belonged to the Gedeputeerde states of North Holland. His eldest son, JA van Hamel , took over his chair at the University of Amsterdam, which he had to give up as a mandate holder according to the legal regulations .

Criminal law reformer

Van Hamel made a name for himself above all as a criminal lawyer and a driving force behind the continental European criminal law reform movement. In 1885, on the occasion of the International Prison Congress in Rome, he established close relationships with Cesare Lombroso and Enrico Ferri and met Franz von Liszt for the first time, whom he visited soon after in Marburg . In 1886 he founded the Tijdschrift voor Strafrecht on the model of the Italian Archivio di psichiatria criminale (1880) and von Liszts' magazine for the entire criminal law science (1881) . Together with von Liszt and Adolphe Prins, van Hamel founded the International Criminological Association in 1889 . In 1896 he founded the Pro Juventute Association and in 1907 the Psychiatrisch-Juridisch Gezelschap , which he headed until 1915.

Van Hamel wrote a fundamental introduction to Dutch criminal law ( Inleiding tot de studie van het Nederlandsche strafrecht ) in 1889 , which was reformed in 1886 with the introduction of Wetboek van criminal law . He turned against dogmatism in criminal law and, based on Lombroso's criminal anthropology , advocated criminal law as a social defense. As a member of parliament, he campaigned for prison reforms. From 1910 he was also a member of the commission that was supposed to draft a new code of criminal procedure for the Netherlands.

Fonts

• De nietigheid van den verkoop van eens differently. SC van Doesburgh, Leiden 1865.
• La nouvelle législation pénale du Japon. C. Muquardt, Bruxelles 1882.
• and PJ van Swinderen: Is vereenvoudiging van het strafgeding voor den Kantonrechte wenschelijk? Zoo yes, in withering interest . Belinfante, 's-Gravenhage 1884.
• The limits of the heerschappij van het criminal law. Van Kampen, Amsterdam 1880.
• Moet nevens de cloththuisstraf (zoo deze authorities wordt) en de gevangenisstraf een other vrijheidsstraf - custodia honesta - have been opgenomen in het criminal law? Zoo yes, van welke beginselen moet de wetgever uitgaan bij het vaststellen en bedreigen dezer straf? . Belinfante, 's-Gravenhage 1880.
• Dutch Indian criminal law. De Bussy, Amsterdam 1882.
• Liberal Unie. Inleiding tot de treatment van own vraagstukken van sociale wetgeving. Liberale Unie, [Sl] 1886.
• De tegenwoordige Bewegungsing op het gebied van het criminal law. , Amsterdam 1891.
• In hoever is het, met inachtneming van de voorschriften der bestaande Grondwet, wenschelijk en mogelijk, om te komen tot eenvoudiger en sneller Autovermietung van kleine strafzaken, vooral van die welke tot de bevoegdheid behooren van den kantonrecht? . Belinfante, 's-Gravenhage 1896.
• Het vraagstuk van de doodstraf. , Amsterdam 1897.
• L'anthropologie criminelle et les dogmes du droit pénal. , Milano etc. 1906.
• Inleiding tot de study van het nederlandsche criminal law. 2nd edition, Haarlem, 's-Gravenhage 1907.
• The treatment of van de geestelijk inferior as vraagstuk van penal heralding. Rossen, Amsterdam 1909.
• Ontwerp van wet regulende het burgerlijk proces in eersten aanleg met memorie van toelichting. Belinfante, 's-Gravenhage 1911.

literature

• Franz von Liszt, GA van Hamel († March 1, 1917) . In: Journal for the entire criminal law science 38 (1917), pp. 553-569
• Mw. LC Meulenhoff-Kouwenhoven: Hamel, Gerardus Antonius van (1842-1917) . In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. PDF

Web links

• Entry on Parlement & Politiek (nl).
• Entry of the digital library voor de Nederlandse letteren