Gerhard Dannecker

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Gerhard Dannecker (born August 29, 1952 in Dagersheim ) is a German lawyer , former university professor and senior professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and criminal defense attorney.

Life

After graduating from high school, Dannecker began studying economics and law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in 1972 , which he completed in 1977 with the First State Examination at the Georg August University in Göttingen . From 1978 to 1981, Dannecker worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Criminology and White Collar Criminal Law with Klaus Tiedemannactive. Dannecker passed his second state examination in law in 1981 in Freiburg. He then worked as a research assistant and later as a university assistant also at the Institute for Criminology and White Collar Criminal Law with Klaus Tiedemann. Dannecker held this position until 1991. Even at that time, 1983, he was with a thesis on "tax evasion in international trade" Dr. iur. PhD. In 1991, Dannecker completed his habilitation with the thesis "The intertemporal criminal law" . A year later he accepted his first appointment at the University of Bayreuth , Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Information Law. Dannecker turned down calls to the universities of Potsdam, Giessen, Würzburg, Bonn and Vienna. In 2007, he accepted a professorship for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, with a special focus on European and international issues, and since 2009 has been director of the Institute for German, European and International Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law there. Since 2018 he has been a senior professor at the University of Heidelberg and a criminal defense attorney at the law firm Dannecker Rechtsanwälte, which specializes in white-collar crime. In 2019 the University of Miskolc (Hungary) awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Dannecker's research focuses on commercial and tax criminal law as well as on German and European antitrust law. Other areas of focus are food and medical criminal law.

Since the 1980s he has acted as a criminal defense lawyer in white collar crime proceedings at home and abroad. The “Kretzinger” proceedings before the European Court of Justice, the gray cement cartel proceedings, the Volkswagen proceedings and the Porsche market manipulation process, for example, received public attention.

Dannecker is, among other things, a member of the Presidium of the Association for European Criminal Law. V., Member of the Main Editorial Advisory Board of “European Financial Services Law”, London and Director of the Institute for German, European and International Medical Law, Health Law and Bioethics at the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim (IMGB).

Literature (selection)

  • Tax evasion in international trade . Deubner, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-88606-035-7 (dissertation).
  • Klaus Tiedemann & Gerhard Dannecker: The legal mitigation in criminal tax law illustrated using the example of the deductibility of party donations . Otto Schmidt Verlag, Cologne 1985.
  • The intertemporal criminal law . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-16-146019-7 (habilitation thesis).
  • The sanctioning of the criminal and administrative fine provisions of food law . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4565-9 .
  • Gerhard Dannecker, Thomas Knierim & Andrea Hagemeier: Insolvency criminal law . CF Müller, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8114-4455-3 .

In addition, there are numerous articles in various journals, such as The impunity of corruption of established contract doctors as a challenge for the legislator , in: Zeitschrift für Rechtssppolitik 2013, p. 37 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet presence of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannecker - Dannecker Lawyers. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ judgment of the ECJ of 18 July 2007. Accessed March 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ JUVE: VfL sponsoring: investigation procedure extended to VW purchasing board «JUVE. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Wallstreet Online: Expert considers Porsche crime to be proven - Didn't the court clarify any conflicts of interest? March 22, 2016, accessed March 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ http://www.imgb.de/Direktorium/
personal data
SURNAME Dannecker, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Dagersheim