Hans Bennecke

Hans Bennecke ( pseudonym : Johannes Neckebën ; born April 24, 1859 in Klostermansfeld , † April 4, 1898 in Nervi ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

The son of the domain tenant in Klostermansfeld, Heinrich Bennecke, came from a respected farming family. Initially he had attended the community school in Mansfeld , was later taught by a private tutor and in 1870 had attended the municipal high school in Halle (Saale) . In 1878 he began studying law at the University of Leipzig , in 1879 he moved to the University of Kiel and in 1880 had continued his studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg . In Kiel he had already fulfilled his military duties with the Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 85, where he later became a reserve officer.

On July 21, 1881, he passed the first legal examination in Naumburg , received a position as a trainee lawyer in Halle and received his doctorate there on March 29, 1882 as a doctor of law. In the same year he was employed at the district court in Braunfels and in 1883 moved to the district court of Neuwied . However, he was keen to pursue an academic career. In June 1883 he went to the University of Marburg , where Franz von Liszt became his formative mentor. At Easter 1884 he had completed his habilitation in criminal law and criminal process and then worked as a private lecturer in Marburg.

On September 2, 1884 Bennecke married Anna Pickhardt (born July 26, 1864 in Braunfels, † April 14, 1931 in Bonn ) in Braunfels an der Lahn , a daughter of the court pharmacist Friedrich Pickhardt in Braunfels and Regine Hintze.

In the winter semester of 1886/87 Bennecke moved to the University of Giessen , where he was appointed full professor of law on January 29, 1887 . At Easter 1890 he accepted a call to the University of Breslau , where he fell ill with a throat disease in 1894. Despite recovery, he suffered from recurring blood attacks in 1898. His disease had infected his lungs too, so he was brought to Nervi near Genoa at his own request, where the air was supposed to give him relief. But instead of recovering, his health deteriorated, so that he eventually died there.

Bennecke has particularly distinguished himself in the field of criminal law and the prison system.

Works

• Roman, canonical and German law up to the middle of the 15th century. 1st part The criminal law doctrine of adultery in its historical-dogmatic development. Marburg 1884, Neudr.Aalen 1971
• The history of the German criminal process: The criminal proceedings under the Dutch and Flemish laws of the XII. and XIII. Century. Marburg 1886
• Textbook of the German Reich Criminal Procedure Law. 1. Vol. 1888, 2. Vol. 1889, 3. Vol. 1890, 4. Vol. 1892, 5. Vol. 1895, 2. Ed. 1900, new edition 2010
• A preview of the year 2000 or a day in a 21st century prison. 1891 under the pseudonym Dr. Johannes Neckebën, Prison Science Future Dream
• Comments on the criminalistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, especially on the statistics of begging and vagrancy. Giessen 1889
• Cases from criminal procedural law for academic use. 1895
• The training of the judge in the prison system. 1895

literature

• Ernst von Beling: Nekrolog Hans Bennecke. In: Chronicle of the Royal University of Breslau for the year from April 1, 1895 to March 31, 1896. Grass, Barth & Comp. (W. Friedrich), Breslau, 1896, vol. 10, p. 113, also in: Journal for the entire criminal law science. Verlag J. Guttentag, Berlin 1898, 18th volume, p. II
• Anton Bettelheim: Biographical Yearbook and German Nekrolog. Georg Reimer Publishing House, Berlin, 1900, p. 129
• Hermann Haupt, Georg Lehnert: Chronicle of the University of Giessen, 1607–1907. Verlag Alfred Töpelmann, Gießen, 1907, p. 53