Hans Felix Pfenninger

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Hans Felix Pfenninger (born May 1, 1886 in Zurich ; † March 25, 1969 there ) was a Swiss lawyer .

Life

Hans Felix Pfenninger studied at the Universities of Zurich , Lausanne and Berlin and received his doctorate in law in 1911 . He was then admitted to the bar and practiced as a lawyer for several years . He turned increasingly to problems of criminal science and criminal procedure law . As part of a post-graduate course, he also attended Franz von Liszt's Berlin Criminalist Seminar and finally completed his habilitation in Zurich with the work The Material Principle of Modern Criminal Law .

From 1917 he taught at the law faculty of the University of Zurich as a private lecturer for criminal law and criminal procedure and also worked as a public prosecutor for the canton of Zurich from 1919 to 1932 . Later he also served as a substitute judge at the Zurich Court of Cassation. In 1932 he was elected associate professor for criminal law. Ten years later he was promoted to full professor of criminal law, criminal procedure law, international criminal law and military law, succeeding Ernst Hafter . From 1940 to 1942 he also held the office of dean at the Faculty of Law. In 1951 Hans Felix Pfenninger retired . In recognition of his services, he was made an honorary professor.

In the military justice Pfenninger rose to colonel and was since 1936 First Division judge, then a member of the Military Court of Cassation and from 1946 to 1956 its president.

Pfenninger maintained correspondence with a large number of well-known lawyers, including Eduard Kohlrausch , Carl Stooss , Adolf Schönke , Theodor Rittler , Rudolf Stammler and Hans von Hentig . His estate is in the UZH archive .

Works (selection)

  • Criminal process and rule of law. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. H. F. Pfenninger. Schulthess, Zurich 1956.
  • Problems of Swiss criminal procedural law. Selected essays. Schulthess, Zurich 1966.

literature

  • Jona Grübel-Bach: Professor Hans Felix Pfenninger. Memories and letters from his student days in Wilhelminian Berlin. Stämpfli, Bern [o. J.].

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl S. Bader : Professor Dr. Hans Felix Pfenninger (Nekrolog) . In: Annual report of the University of Zurich 1969/70 . 1970, p. 90–92 ( archiv.uzh.ch [PDF; accessed on January 31, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Jescheck : Hans Felix Pfenninger in memory. In: Journal for the entire field of criminal law. 81, No. 4, 1969, pp. 993-996.
  3. ↑ Collection: NL Hans Felix Pfenninger (1886–1969). UZH archive. Signature: PA.021. link
personal data
SURNAME Pfenninger, Hans Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfenninger, Hans F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1969
Place of death Zurich