Hans Goeppinger

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Hans Göppinger (born April 11, 1919 in Stuttgart , † April 5, 1996 in Tübingen ) was a German lawyer, psychiatrist and criminologist .

life and work

Göppinger graduated from high school in Stuttgart in 1937 and then did labor service and military service . After being seriously wounded, one of his legs was amputated in 1941. While still in the hospital he began studying law, and two semesters later also studying medicine. Göppinger was matriculated at the universities in Tübingen , Freiburg , Göttingen and Heidelberg during the Second World War . His thinking was particularly influenced by the Heidelberg scientists Karl Jaspers and Kurt Schneider . He made the bar exam during the war in March 1945. The Promotion Dr. jur. followed in October 1946 at the University of Tübingen. Göppinger passed the medical state examination in November 1948 at the University of Heidelberg, a month later he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. The training as a specialist in psychiatry and neurology took place in Heidelberg with Kurt Schneider. This was followed by a position as senior medical advisor at the Stuttgart health department. In 1959 Göppinger became senior physician at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Bonn, where he qualified as a professor at the Medical Faculty in 1960 and was appointed private lecturer .

In 1962 he became full professor and director of the Institute for Criminology at the University of Tübingen . It was the first exclusively criminological institute in the Federal Republic of Germany. He held his Tübingen chair until 1986. Hans-Jürgen Kerner became his successor as professor and institute director .

Until the end of the 1970s, Göppinger was considered the leading German criminologist. In his research he attached great importance to interdisciplinarity and empirical derivation of the statements. In doing so, he turned against the free-floating theory production (widespread in criminology at the time). Göppinger is the inventor of applied criminology , which is dedicated to researching the perpetrator - and specifically the individual perpetrator in his or her social context. He therefore preferred the idiographic method. He considered the positivistic formulation of legal processes ( nomothetic method) in the creation of delinquency to be unproductive. This tradition is continued by Michael Bock at the University of Mainz , who is meanwhile also the sole editor of the great Göppinger textbook.

At the end of his academic life, Hans Göppinger had been pushed to the edge of the center of his specialist discipline and was almost eliminated from textbook criminology.

Fonts (selection)

  • The current situation in criminology. Inaugural lecture. Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1964.
  • Criminology. An introduction. Beck, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-406-03411-X . (further editions: 1973, ISBN 3-406-03557-4 ; 1976, ISBN 3-406-06655-0 ; 1980, ISBN 3-406-07343-3 )
  • The perpetrator in his social context. Results from the Tübingen young offender comparison study. (with the assistance of Michael Bock, Jörg-Martin Jehle , Werner Maschke). Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / Tokyo 1983, ISBN 3-540-12518-3 .
  • Applied criminology. A practical Guide. (with the assistance of Werner Maschke). Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / Tokyo 1985, ISBN 3-540-13821-8 .
  • Life style and criminality. Basic research and its application: criminological diagnosis and prognosis (with the assistance of Michael Bock, Jörg-Martin Jehle, Werner Maschke). Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / Tokyo 1987, ISBN 3-540-16688-2 .
  • Applied criminology - international (as editor; with the assistance of Werner Maschke). Forum-Verlag Godesberg, Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-927066-05-2 .

Continuation of the Göppinger textbook

literature

  • Jörg-Martin Jehle , Werner Maschke, Denis Szabo (eds.): Criminal law practice and criminology. Festival ceremony for Hans Göppinger. 2nd expanded edition. Forum-Verlag Godeberg, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-927066-25-7 .
  • Hans-Jürgen Kerner , Günther Kaiser (ed.): Crime. Personality, life story and behavior. Festschrift for Hans Göppinger on his 70th birthday . Springer-Verlag, Berlin a. a. 1990, ISBN 3-540-52144-5 .
  • Michael Bock: Experience and understanding. A personal look at the scientist Hans Göppinger. In: Scientific Association of Tübingen Criminologists e. V. (Ed.): In memoriam Hans Göppinger. Colloquium on September 28, 1996 at the Institute for Criminology at the University of Tübingen; Tübingen 1996. pp. 5-11.
  • Werner Janzarik (Ed.): In memory of Professor Dr. med. Dr. iur. Dr. hc Hans Göppinger (1919 - 1996) , Eberhard Karls Univ., Tübingen 1997 (Tübinger Universitätsreden, NF, Volume 24).
  • Hans-Jürgen Kerner, Jörg Kinzig , Rüdiger Wulf (eds.): In memory of Prof. Dr. med. habil. Dr. jur. Dr. hc Hans Göppinger (April 11, 1919 - April 5, 1996). Symposium on April 6, 2019. Tübingen writings and materials on criminology, Volume 43, Tübingen 2019 ( online version, PDF ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the biographical information cf. Hans-Jürgen Kerner, Günther Kaiser (ed.): Crime. Personality, life story and behavior. Festschrift for Hans Göppinger on his 70th birthday. Springer-Verlag, Berlin a. a. 1990, introduction, p. XI ff.
personal data
SURNAME Goeppinger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, physician, psychiatrist and criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1996
Place of death Tübingen