Gerhard Feix

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Gerhard Feix (born April 21, 1929 in Teplitz-Schönau , then Czechoslovakia ) is a German lawyer , criminologist and author .

Life

Gerhard Feix was born in Teplitz-Schönau , Czechoslovakia, in 1929 . After the end of the Second World War , he had to leave his place of birth with his mother and sister during the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia . After working as a forest worker, slicer and youth functionary, from the end of the 1950s he worked in the presidium of the East Berlin People's Police . From 1959 Feix studied law at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He received his doctorate and habilitation there in July 1967. From 1962 he was employed as a research assistant at the Institute for Criminology at the Humboldt University, where he later became head of the criminal tactics department . Due to his critical attitude towards the suppression of the Prague Spring , he was banned from teaching in 1968 and was dismissed from the institute at the instigation of Ehrenfried Stelzer .

Subsequently, Feix worked as an employee and research assistant. Since 1976 he has been a lecturer in criminal law and criminology at the University of Law and Administration in Potsdam - Babelsberg . In addition, he worked as a development worker in the areas of justice and administration in Africa . Gerhard Feix later worked as a lawyer .

Feix wrote several works on juvenile delinquency and sexual crime in the GDR . 1959 was the illustrated guide, don't educate a rowdy! Feix later published further papers on the criminal offense of hooliganism in the GDR. His Small Lexicon for Criminologists (1965), published by the publishing house of the Ministry of the Interior , achieved greater importance . His 1971 book on the great French criminal cases , The Great Ear of Paris - Cases of the Sûreté, has been reprinted several times . Even Death came in the mail - From the history of West German criminal police (1979) reached high circulation figures in the GDR a large audience. Under the pseudonyms Gert Schönau and Gustl Rüdemann , he also wrote crime and adventure novels, most of which appeared in the Blaulicht series.

His later divorced marriage had three children, including the journalist and publicist Ingrid Kirschey-Feix (* 1950) and the writer and “punk philosopher” Lothar Feix (1954–2002).

Works (selection)

Non-fiction

  • 1953: The life of the young kolkhoz farmers. (Verlag Junge Welt, Berlin)
  • 1959: The sex crimes against and with children. Your detection, investigation and prevention. (Dissertation, Berlin)
  • 1959: Don't raise a rowdy! (Volk u. Wissen publishing house, Berlin)
  • 1961: The fight against sex crimes against children. (Publishing house of the Ministry of the Interior, Berlin)
  • 1962: with Horst Luther - The prevention and fight against juvenile delinquency in the German Democratic Republic. (Publishing house of the Ministry of the Interior, Berlin)
  • 1965: Small encyclopedia for criminologists. (Publishing house of the Ministry of the Interior, Berlin)
  • 1967: The sexually motivated homicide crimes in the German Democratic Republic. A criminological-criminological study. (Habilitation thesis, Berlin)
  • 1971: The Big Ear of Paris - Cases of the Sûreté. (Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin)
  • 1974: Experiences and problems of criminology and crime prevention and control in the USSR. (Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR)
  • 1975: The nature and causes of crime and the nature of crime prevention and the reintegration of those released from prison and the education of citizens at risk of crime.
  • 1979: Death came in the mail - From the history of the BRD Kripo. (Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin)

Novels

  • 1969: Gert Schönau - The cat was there. ( Blue light no.106)
  • 1969: Gert Schönau - The Don Juan of Zederndorf. (Blue light no.110)
  • 1970: Gustl Rüdemann - The glasses. (Blue light no.116)
  • 1970: Gert Schönau - sex Ted under suspicion. (Blue light no.118)
  • 1971: Gert Schönau - fire in the chick shed. (Blue light no.130)
  • 1971: Gert Schönau - the boss on the phone. ( DIE series - Criminal Evidence Investigations ; Verlag Das Neue Berlin)
  • 1986: Gerhard Feix - decision at Mores. (Verlag Das Neue Berlin)
  • 1988: Gert Schönau - A village story. (Blue light No. 265)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.) Et al .: German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Volume 8: Erni - Fischer. Saur, Zurich and Munich 2005, ISBN 9783-908255-08-6 , page 357.
  2. ^ Dirk Breithaupt: Legal Biography GDR . Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 1993, page 237.
  3. ^ A b Rainer Leonhardt, Frank-Rainer Schurich: The criminalistics at the Berlin University: Rise and end of a subject . Kriminalistik-Verlag, 1994, page 72.
  4. ^ Matěj Kotalík: Hooliganism in State Socialism. An enemy image from the Soviet Union. Ch. Links Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-96289-071-1 , pp. 140 ff.
  5. ↑ Dorothea Germer: From comrades and gangsters: On the image of society in the crime literature of the GDR and East Germany from 1974 to 1994. Verlag Die Blaue Eule, 1998, page 41.
personal data
SURNAME Feix, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönau, Gert (pseudonym); Rüdemann, Gustl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, criminologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplitz-Schönau , Czechoslovakia