Heinz Leferenz

Heinz Leferenz (born July 15, 1913 in Heidelberg ; † April 29, 2015 in Heidelberg) was a German psychiatrist and criminologist .

Life

Leferenz received his doctorate in 1939 after studying law in Heidelberg . He then studied medicine as a medical soldier , passed the medical state examination in 1945 and received his doctorate in this subject in 1946 - as assistant to Kurt Schneider . From 1952 to 1960 he headed the department for child and adolescent psychiatry and the educational counseling center at the Psychiatric Clinic of Heidelberg University. In 1956 he completed his habilitation at the law faculty in Heidelberg. In 1959 he took over the first exclusively criminological chair in the Federal Republic of Germany as an adjunct professor in Heidelberg. In 1962 he became the first director of the Institute for Criminology at Heidelberg University. It was the second exclusively criminological institute in the Federal Republic. Shortly before, the first institute of this type had started work in Tübingen. Hans Göppinger, a practitioner from psychiatry - the most important reference science of criminology in its early years in the Federal Republic of Germany - was appointed there too .

Heinz Leferenz headed the Heidelberg Institute until his retirement in 1978.

literature

Hans-Jürgen Kerner , Hans Göppinger , Franz Streng (eds.): Criminology - Psychiatry - Criminal Law. Festschrift for Heinz Leferenz on his 70th birthday. CF Müller Verlag, Heidelberg 1983.
Heinz Leferenz on his 100th birthday. In: Journal for the entire field of criminal law . Volume 125, Issue 2, December 2013, preview .
Obituary notice In: Journal for the entire field of criminal law . Volume 127, Issue 2, 2015.

Web links

100th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinz Leferenz (Honoring Heidelberg University)

Individual evidence

↑ The first name Karl-Heinz, which has never been used in public, is mentioned in the entry of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives ; there are no publicly accessible sources for another first name, Philip, which is entered in the family register.

personal data
SURNAME	Leference, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Leference, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychiatrist and criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 15, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH	April 29, 2015
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] The first name Karl-Heinz, which has never been used in public, is mentioned in the entry of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives ; there are no publicly accessible sources for another first name, Philip, which is entered in the family register.