Gunter Widmaier

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Gunter Widmaier (born September 28, 1938 in Ravensburg ; † September 11, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and criminal defense attorney specializing in revisions and constitutional complaints . He was involved in the clarification of countless important criminal legal questions by the Federal Court of Justice and the Federal Constitutional Court , for example in the proceedings on the Aviation Security Act and in the criminal proceedings against Karlheinz Schreiber and Karl-Heinz Wildmoser junior . He was an honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

His father was the president of the court and his mother came from Switzerland . He attended elementary school in the Stuttgart area and in Switzerland, the grammar school in Stuttgart-Hohenheim and in Schorndorf, where he passed his Abitur in 1957. He then studied law in Tübingen and Hamburg. In 1962 he passed the first state examination in law in Tübingen and the second state examination in Stuttgart in 1967.

Widmaier was married to the psychologist Susanne Widmaier and had a son who is also a lawyer.

In addition to his legal clerkship, Widmaier worked as a research assistant at Horst Schröder's chair for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Tübingen. He continued this activity after the second state examination and, as part of it, made significant contributions to the StGB commentary "Schönke / Schröder", which at that time was still processed by Schröder alone. He then joined Rolf Bossi's law firm in Munich. In May 1984 he founded his own law firm in Karlsruhe, in the immediate vicinity of the Federal Court of Justice and the Federal Constitutional Court. In 2001 he merged with his then partner Michael Rosenthal with the law firm Redeker Schön Dahs & Sellner to Redeker Sellner Dahs & Widmaier , from which he separated again in 2010. Since then, Widmaier and his younger colleague Ali Norouzi have been running an independent law firm on Karlsruher Herrenstrasse , the headquarters of which moved to Berlin on September 1, 2012, where he died just 11 days later.

Widmaier headed the Criminal Law Committee of the Federal Bar Association from 1995 to 2006 and was co-editor of the New Journal for Criminal Law . For the German Juristentag he wrote two reports and was a member of the permanent deputation from 2000 until his death, on whose behalf he was head of the criminal law department of the Juristentag 2004 and 2008.

For his 70th birthday, a 1000-page commemorative publication was published.

Works (selection)

  • Avoiding success after the onset of success: a contribution to the success equivalence in the context of omission offenses . Tübingen 1980.
  • (Ed.): Declaration from science on the 50th anniversary of the Federal Court of Justice . Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-406-46601-4 .
  • (Ed.): Munich Lawyers Manual for Criminal Defense . Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-54720-1 .
  • with Claus Roxin , Gerhard Schäfer : Die Mühlenteichtheorie, in a commemorative publication in honor of the Criminal Law Committee of the Federal Bar Association. 2006, 435.
  • with Helmut Satzger , Wilhelm Schluckebier (Ed.): StGB - Criminal Code: Commentary . 2nd edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-452-27613-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dedication. In: Heinz Schöch, Helmut Satzger, Gerhard Schäfer, Alexander Ignor, Christoph Knauer (eds.): Festschrift for Gunter Widmaier on his 70th birthday - criminal defense, revision and the entire criminal law sciences . 2008, ISBN 978-3-452-26938-6 .
  2. ↑ a b Berlin: Revision lawyer Gunter Widmaier deceased , JUVE, September 13, 2012, accessed September 14, 2012.
  3. ^ Death of a great criminal lawyer: Gunter Widmaier passed away , LTO , September 13, 2012, accessed September 14, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b c Heinz Schöch, Helmut Satzger, Gerhard Schäfer, Alexander Ignor, Christoph Knauer (eds.): Festschrift for Gunter Widmaier on his 70th birthday - criminal defense, revision and the entire criminal law sciences . 2008, p. VII, ISBN 978-3-452-26938-6 .
  5. ^ Karlsruhe: Redeker and Widmaier go their separate ways. In: Message law firms. JUVE, April 19, 2010, accessed September 14, 2012 .
  6. ^ Criminal lawyer Gunter Widmaier has died . In: Die Welt , September 13, 2012, accessed September 14, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Widmaier, Gunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and defense attorney
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 2012
Place of death Berlin