Helmut Fünfsinn

Helmut Fünfsinn, 2016 at the University of Frankfurt am Main

Helmut Fünfsinn (born July 4, 1954 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German lawyer. He has been the Hessian public prosecutor since 2015 .

Live and act

Fünfsinn was born the son of a federal railroad employee. After graduating from high school and completing community service, he began studying law in 1974 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He also attended lectures in sociology and business administration. In 1980 he passed his first state examination in law and completed his legal clerkship in Frankfurt. From October 1982 to March 1983 he was employed as a research assistant in the law department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. In February 1983 he passed the second state examination and then worked as a research assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main until August 1986, among other things as an assistant to Wolfgang Naucke . At the same time he was writing his doctoral thesis on the dogmatic topic “The structure of negligent infringement offenses through omission in criminal law”, with which he received his doctorate in 1985 in the field of law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.

In 1986, Fünfsinn became a probationary judge in a civil chamber at the Frankfurt am Main regional court , in 1987 he was at the Königstein im Taunus local court and in 1988, again at the Frankfurt am Main regional court, he was appointed judge for life.

In April 1989, Fünfsinn was at the Hessian Ministry of Justice under Karl-Heinz Koch seconded initially continue as a judge at the regional court, from 1993 as a judge at the High Court and from 2001 delegation as Chief Prosecutor at the High Court. In 2000 he was appointed head of the division group III / A (criminal proceedings) and in June 2001 he was appointed head of the criminal law department. In April 2002 he took over as ministerial director of Department III "Criminal Law, Mercy, Crime Prevention" of the Ministry.

On October 1, 2015, Helmut Fünfsinn - succeeding Hans-Josef Blumensatt - was appointed Public Prosecutor as Head of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Frankfurt am Main on a probationary basis. Fünfsinn is the superior of 400 public prosecutors and 120 public prosecutors . In the area of ​​the General Public Prosecutor's Office in Frankfurt am Main, 360,000 preliminary proceedings are initiated every year.

Since 1992, Fünfsinn has been a part-time managing director of the Expert Commission for Crime Prevention of the Hessian State Government (State Prevention Council) and a member of the Advisory Board of the German Forum for Crime Prevention (DFK).

Academic activity

After Fünfsinn had worked as a lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University from 1988/89, he was awarded the academic title of honorary professor in June 2014 . He teaches at the Institute for Criminal Science and Legal Philosophy in Frankfurt. Fünfsinn publishes continuously on substantive criminal law, criminal procedural and criminal policy issues, legal policy and crime prevention, which are related to his full-time work in the ministry.

Fonts

• Helmut Fünfsinn: The structure of the negligent infringement offense through omission in criminal law . Series: Frankfurter Kriminalwissenschaftliche Studien, Volume 13, Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M., Bern, New York, 1985 ISBN 978-3-8204-8850-0 (also dissertation 1984/1985 Johann Wolfgang Goethe University)
• Possibilities of suspending the execution of the pre-trial detention order through the use of electronic surveillance . In: Christian Fahl, Eckhart Müller, Helmut Satzger, Sabine Swobod (eds.) Festschrift for Werner Beulke on his 70th birthday. FC Müller, Heidelberg, 2015 ISBN 978-3-8114-3949-8 , pp. 1129-1139.
• The influence of macroeconomic crime prevention on criminal law. In: Criminal defense, revision and the entire criminal law studies , Festschrift for Gunter Widmaier , Heymanns, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-452-26938-6 , pp. 909 ff.
• Violence Protection Act - An example of interagency cooperation . In: Detlef Schröder, Ralf C. Berthek (Eds.): Violence in the social vicinity II , Verlag für Polizeiwissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, 2005, ISBN 978-3-935979-65-8 , p. 31 ff.

literature

• Newsletter of the Law Faculty , edition winter semester 2014/2015, p. 5 f.
• Helmut Schwan: The homecomer: Helmut Fünfsinn knows criminal law like no other. Now he is doing the practical test as Hesse’s general public prosecutor . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from December 6, 2015, No. 49, p. R 3

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Fünfsinn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Change at the top of the Hessian Public Prosecutor's Office , website Justiz Hessen