Herbert Engelhard

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Herbert Engelhard (born May 7, 1882 in Mannheim , † December 19, 1945 in Heidelberg ) was a German law scholar and professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

life and work

After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Mannheim, Engelhard began studying law at the University of Munich in 1900 . He later also studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin . In 1904 he passed his first state examination in law in Heidelberg. In 1905 he was promoted to Dr. with a work on fraud supervised by Karl von Lilienthal . iur. PhD. After the second state examination in 1909, Engelhard worked as a public prosecutor at the Mannheim Public Prosecutor's Office. In 1914 Engelhard resigned as a public prosecutor in order to devote himself to his habilitation. However, this project was interrupted by the First World War, for which Engelhard volunteered. His regiment was deployed on the Eastern Front in Masuria and near Vilna . Engelhard received the Iron Cross , the Order of the Zähringer Lion and the Hessian Medal for Bravery for his commitment . In 1915 he was taken prisoner by Russia, where he suffered serious damage to his health, and was only able to flee after the peace of Brest-Litovsk . After his return to Germany he settled as a lawyer in Mannheim. In 1921 his habilitation application was accepted by the University of Heidelberg, supported by his doctoral supervisor Lilienthal, whereupon Engelhard was awarded the Venia legendi for criminal law and criminal procedure law and was appointed private lecturer in 1922.

In the winter semester of 1922/23 Engelhard represented Gustav Radbruch's chair at Kiel University . In June 1923 Engelhard became associate professor in Heidelberg, but initially represented chairs at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Kiel. From 1925 he taught and researched as a scheduled associate professor at the University of Heidelberg. After his personal friend Radbruch was dismissed due to the law to restore the civil service , attempts by the faculty to get Engelhard a full professor failed because of his refusal to join the NSDAP and the resulting unfavorable assessment. Nevertheless, Engelhard continued to hold the criminal law lectures and examinations in Heidelberg together with Karl Engisch as long as his health permitted. Engelhard's health deteriorated noticeably in the early 1940s. He died on December 19, 1945 and was buried in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery.

Engelhard has hardly published any major scientific works. Rather, it was characterized by shorter, but all the more concise articles in specialist journals, especially on fraud and blackmail. Gustav Radbruch described him in an obituary as a “born lawyer with perfect accuracy, complete clarity and an independent way of thinking”.

Fonts (selection)

  • Can fraud be committed through the pretense of illegal or immoral consideration? , Heidelberg 1905 (dissertation)
  • The chantage problem in current and future German criminal law , Schlettersche Buchhandlung, Breslau 1912
  • The honor as legal asset in criminal law Bensheimer, Mannheim 1921
  • Introduction to criminal law based on legal cases Rausch, Heidelberg 1946 (published posthumously by Gustav Radbruch)

literature

  • Klaus-Peter Schroeder : "A university for and by lawyers" - The Heidelberg Law Faculty in the 19th and 20th centuries . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-12053-6 , p. 481-486 .
  • Gustav Radbruch: Obituary for Herbert Engelhard in SJZ 1946, p. 255

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Schroeder, p. 483.
  2. Schroder, p. 484f.
  3. Gustav Radbruch in SJZ 1946, p. 255, quoted from Schroeder, p. 485.