Heinz Baker

Heinz Bäcker (* 1925 in Chemnitz ) is a German legal scholar who has primarily dealt with the postal law of the GDR .

Life

“Bäcker's passion was the post throughout his life .” After finishing elementary school, he completed an apprenticeship with the Reichspost in his hometown until 1941 . He then became an auxiliary postman in the preparatory service and was supposed to attend the Post High School in Heidelberg . In the meantime, Bäcker was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1943 . in July 1945 he returned to Chemnitz and took up his post at the post office again, where he was promoted to head of a branch post office. In addition, Bäcker achieved university entrance qualification after attending a preparatory course.

In 1947, Bäcker began studying law in Leipzig and passed his legal traineeship in 1950. Bäcker was now the main clerk in the main law department of the GDR Ministry of Post and Telecommunications , later senior and then main consultant. He began to give lectures at the Post and Telecommunications School in Leipzig and to publish in the magazine Die Deutsche Post . In 1958 he took over a lectureship for postal and telecommunications law at the University of Transport in Dresden , from 1961 he was the personal assistant to the university rector. Bäcker completed his dissertation on the protection of communications by criminal law in 1963, and according to his own statements, the proposals he made were "almost completely" taken into account when the new GDR criminal code was created . In 1961 he was appointed lecturer . In 1969, at his own request, Bäcker moved to the Institute for Socialist Economic Management of the Post and Telecommunications System in Berlin , where he took over the management of the legal field. From 1969 onwards, Bäcker was able to use the title of “honorary lecturer”, and he no longer received higher academic degrees - despite the advocacy of the GDR Post Minister Rudolph Schulze . On September 1, 1990, Bäcker went into retirement. Nothing is known about his further career.

The Rostock legal historian Benjamin Lahusen pays tribute to Bäcker's work with the following words: “A life for the Post that, despite its fleeting nature, overcame the boundaries between practice and theory as naturally as one can hardly do with a lawyer, who are by their nature ardent letter people meets once. "

Bakers, originally denominational, were "socialistically purified" during their studies. In 1953 he left the church and in 1955 he joined the SED . Baker married in 1949.

Works (selection)

• The criminal protection of communications. A contribution to the criminal legislation of the German Democratic Republic. Institute for Post and Telecommunications, Berlin 1965
• The application of socialist business law to ensure a high level of effectiveness in the postal and telecommunications system. Institute for Socialist Economic Management of the Post and Telecommunications System, Berlin 1970
• Outline of the postal and telecommunications law of the German Democratic Republic. 2nd Edition. Institute for Socialist Economic Management of Postal and Telecommunications, Berlin 1975 (together with Johanna Blaudszun)
• Post and telecommunications law. 2nd Edition. Transpress Verlag , Berlin 1983 (as head of the collective of authors)

literature

• Benjamin Lahusen: Dr. jur. Heinz Baker. An East German legal life. In: myops 23 (January 2015), pp. 29-36

Web links

• Legal training at the University of Transportation (accessed February 10, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Benjamin Lahusen: Dr. jur. Heinz Baker. An East German legal life. In: myops 23 (January 2015), pp. 29-36.
2. ↑ See the information in Neue Justiz 1986, p. 285.