Hans Joachim Hirsch

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Hans Joachim Hirsch (born April 11, 1929 in Wittenberge ; † September 9, 2011 in Cologne ) was a German criminal lawyer at the University of Cologne.

Life

Hans-Joachim Hirsch was born on April 11, 1929 in Wittenberge as the son of the hydraulic engineer Arnold Hirsch . Due to his job-related change of residence, Hirsch lived in Berlin from 1932 to 1936, then in Emden until 1938 and then in Stettin until 1943 . In view of increasing air raids on Stettin, Hirsch was evacuated to Pasewalk with his mother and siblings in the summer of 1943 . In January 1945, at the age of fifteen, he was recruited for the Volkssturm there , and narrowly escaped being recruited into the Waffen SS . On April 26, 1945, Hirsch's father found his son in Pasewalk and was able to flee with him from the approaching Soviet troops. Both reached Ludwigslust via Güstrow on May 1, 1945 , and American troops marched into it on the same day. Since Ludwigslust was to be handed over to the Soviet troops soon, both fled to the nearby British occupation area. After walking through the Lüneburg Heath, father and son arrived in Verden an der Aller on May 8, 1945 , where the rest of the family had been for weeks. In 1948, Hans Joachim Hirsch passed his Abitur and then began to study law at the University of Göttingen . Among other things, he attended the lectures on criminal law with Hans Welzel . After passing the first state examination in law , he did his doctorate on negative criteria . After the second state examination, Hirsch attended the London School of Economics as a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) .

Hirsch started his professional career as an administrative lawyer in the Federal Ministry of Economics , but then completed his habilitation at Welzel to honor and insult . After completing his habilitation, he became a professor at the University of Regensburg in 1966 . In 1970 he co-hosted the conference on criminal law teachers and gave a lecture on the reform of offenses against bodily harm . In 1974 Hirsch moved to the University of Cologne, where he retired in 1994 . From 1993 he also taught for four years at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg and took part in the re-establishment of teaching at this university.

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The main research focus of Hans Joachim Hirsch was the dogmatics of criminal law. He wrote numerous books, commentaries , specialist articles and other treatises. Hirsch tried to develop precise and predictable structures in his work. His work on criminal law theory, justification , guilt , offenses against persons and the limits of criminal law are noteworthy . He also dealt with transnational approaches and advocated exchanges with foreign criminal lawyers.

In 1975 he was co-editor of the journal for the entire criminal law science and was its general editor for 17 years. From 1987 to 1997, Hirsch was chairman of the criminal law section of the Society for Comparative Law . In 1991 he became a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts and was chairman of the humanities class there in 2004 and 2005 and vice-president of the academy.

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  1. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminal law teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2011
Place of death Cologne