Hans-Heinrich Jescheck

Hans-Heinrich Jescheck (born January 10, 1915 in Liegnitz , Silesia , † September 27, 2009 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

Jescheck's father was a lawyer and notary. In 1924 he came to the humanistic grammar school in Liegnitz. He was impressed by a “Hellas trip” to Magna Graecia in 1932 under the direction of Wilhelm Dörpfeld . In March 1933 he passed his Abitur. He gave the graduation speech about the day in Potsdam . Jescheck studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich and Göttingen . He became a member of the Franconia Freiburg fraternity . He heard Fritz Pringsheim , Erik Wolf and Eduard Kern . At Kern he received his doctorate in 1937 after his first state examination in 1936 on legal training. Jescheck became a member of the SA and the NSDAP .

In November 1937 he was called up for military service and joined the 18th Infantry Division . Shortly before the end of the service, the Second World War broke out. Jescheck served in Poland, France and the Soviet Union and was promoted to captain in 1943. In the same year he passed the notassessor examination. 1944 came back to the Eastern Front and was wounded. On March 5, 1945 he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross . Jescheck was taken prisoner by the French in 1945. In the Mulsanne camp near Le Mans, he taught at the camp university a. a. with Carl Hermann Ule . Later he came to St. Denis in a “Centers d'études pour prisonniers de guerre allemandes”, where he came into contact with the leaders of French society: Joseph Rovan , André Maurois , Raymond Aron , Emanuel Mounier , André François-Poncet . June 1947 he was released from captivity, nothing is known about his denazification .

In Freiburg he was employed as a judge at the regional court and assigned to civil and criminal law. Later became a higher regional judge. Shortly before the end of his habilitation on international criminal law (responsibility of state organs) in 1949, Jescheck became a single widower. In October 1952, Walter Strauss requested him to be seconded to the Federal Ministry of Justice. There he made friends with Eduard Dreher and Karl Lackner . He married again in Bonn. During his time in Bonn he took part in the negotiations on the European Defense Community . In 1954 he was appointed to the Grand Criminal Law Commission (until 1959).

In 1954 he took over the chair for criminal law and criminal procedural law from the previously deceased Adolf Schönke in Freiburg im Breisgau (until 1980). At the same chair he became director of the Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, which has been operating as the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law since 1966 (until 1982). While teaching, he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Law and Politics in 1962 and Rector of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in 1964 . Jescheck was also a part-time judge at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court from 1954 (until 1975). From 1974 to 1983 he was President of the Society for Comparative Law . From 1979 to 1989 he was president of the Association Internationale de Droit Pénal , whose general secretary he had already become in 1950. In 1990/91 he held temporary lectures in Greifswald.

In his opinion, " criminal law (...) is blind without criminology, criminology without criminal law (...) boundless" .

Jescheck has received several honorary doctorates, the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (awarded in 1984) and the Beccaria Medal. He was co-editor of the journal for all criminal law studies .

literature

• Ulrich Sieber : Hans-Heinrich Jescheck †. In: NJW . 2009, p. 3291.
• Ulrich Sieber: Hans-Heinrich Jescheck in memory. In: ZStW. 121, issue 4, 2009, p. 813ff.
• Eric Hilgendorf (Ed.): The German-language criminal law science in self-portrayals. Berlin, New York 2010, p. 167ff.
• Ulrich Sieber, Hans-Jörg Albrecht (Ed.): Criminal law and criminology under one roof. Colloquium on the 90th birthday of Professor Dr. Dr. hc mult. Hans-Heinrich Jescheck on January 10, 2005. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-428-12219-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Heinrich Jescheck in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 1031.
2. ^ Dataset , database on the Knight's Cross, accessed on May 18, 2012.

predecessor	Office	successor
Bernhard Panzram	Rector of the University of Freiburg 1964 - 1965	Helmut Baitsch