Helmut Frister

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Helmut Frister (born December 22, 1956 in Berlin ) is a German legal scholar and holder of the chair for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the law faculty of Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

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After studying law in Bonn from 1975 to 1979, Helmut Frister passed the first state examination in 1980 before the Cologne Higher Regional Court and the second in 1984 before the State Justice Examination Office in Düsseldorf . As a student of Gerald Grünwald, he received his doctorate in 1986 at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn on the subject of the "principle of guilt, prohibition of suspected punishment and presumption of innocence" and in 1993 the habilitation there on the subject of "the voluntative element of guilt" .

After substitute professorships at the universities of Münster and Regensburg and a professorship at the law faculty of the Technical University of Dresden , Helmut Frister has held the chair for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the law faculty of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and director of the since the winter semester 1994/1995 local institute for legal questions in medicine.

Frister has also worked as Of Counsel in the law firm Wessing & Partner since 2013 and is the managing director of the Alternative Design Working Group.

Further memberships / activities

  • Ethics committee of the medical faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • Ethics Council of the Medical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • Working group on the Reproductive Medicine Act of the Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences
  • Criminal Law Teachers Association
  • Medical Law Teachers Association

Fonts (selection)

  • Literature by and about Helmut Frister in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Principle of guilt, prohibition of the suspected penalty and presumption of innocence as material basic principles of criminal law, Berlin 1988 (dissertation)
  • The structure of the voluntary element of guilt, Berlin 1993 (habilitation thesis)
  • Criminal Law General Part, 1. – 8. Edition, Munich 2006–2018 (translated into Spanish and Russian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HHU chair page - accessed on July 23, 2015
  2. ^ Beck authors' directory - accessed on July 23, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Chancellery homepage - accessed on August 23, 2015
  4. ↑ Homepage of the Alternative Draft Working Group ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - accessed on August 23, 2015
  5. ^ Publisher's website - accessed on August 23, 2015
  6. ^ Publisher's website - accessed on August 23, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Frister, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin