Herbert Trondle

Herbert Tröndle (born August 24, 1919 in Kiesenbach ; † October 1, 2017 in Waldshut ) was a German legal scholar , judge , author and university professor .

Life

His father and grandfather were village blacksmiths. In 1938 he passed his Abitur at the Waldshut grammar school . Then he did the Reich Labor Service and as a volunteer military service. During the Second World War he served in France in 1940 and as a non-commissioned officer on the Eastern Front in 1941 . Soon after the attack on the Soviet Union began, he was promoted to sergeant major. In 1942 he received the Iron Cross 1st Class , after he had previously received the Iron Cross 2nd Class, and later the Infantry Assault Badge and the German Cross in Gold . In the same year, Tröndle, who had advanced to lieutenant, was injured in both legs by shell splinters in a shell hit, whereupon both lower legs had to be amputated. In 1943 he was promoted to first lieutenant in the reserve and received the wounded badge .

In the summer semester of 1943 he began to study economics in Freiburg . In the next semester he switched to law. For the winter semester 1944/45 he went to Jena . Tröndle married Christmas 1944. He continued his studies in Göttingen in September 1945 . In 1947 he passed the first state examination “completely satisfactory ”. In September 1947 he started his legal traineeship in Baden. In 1947 in Göttingen he submitted a dissertation on § 814 BGB . He passed the Rigorosum on the second attempt in 1949. He passed the second state examination in 1950 with "good". Then Tröndle became a court assessor . In 1953 he was seconded to the Federal Court of Justice as an " unskilled worker" . At the end of 1953 he was promoted to the district judge. At the beginning of 1956 he returned to the Waldshut district court . In October 1956 he started his service at the Federal Ministry of Justice and was active in the Great Criminal Law Commission. In 1958 he moved up to the higher regional judge. From 1961 he worked again in his home town of Waldshut as a district court director. In 1966 he became the head of the public prosecutor's office in Offenburg and a member of the state judicial examination commission. From 1968 to 1985 he was President of the Waldshut-Tiengen Regional Court . In 1976 he was elected to the permanent deputation of the German Lawyers' Association. The law faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where Tröndle had been lecturing on criminal law since 1978 , appointed him honorary professor in 1980 . He continued teaching until the 1990s.

Tröndle died on October 1, 2017 at the age of 98.

Act

Tröndle achieved great fame above all as an author of specialist legal publications. He oversaw the criminal law commentary on the penal code and ancillary laws , which was founded by Otto Schwarz and is now one of the standard works, from the 38th to the 49th edition. Since the 50th edition, it has been edited by Thomas Fischer . From the 49th to the 54th edition, Tröndle / Fischer were named as authors; since the 55th edition only Fischer is listed as the author.

Tröndle was considered a conservative lawyer. He criticized the legal position on abortion created after the 2nd time limit regulation judgment of the BVerfG , because this allows late abortions and does not adequately guarantee the constitutionally required protection of the individual unborn life. He also turned against equality, especially for homosexual men . He complained that the abolition of Section 175 of the Criminal Code would allow the "established gay scene" to "recruit adolescents in puberty and adolescence for their own purposes".

honors and awards

• 23 August 1941: Iron Cross 2nd class ,
• March 4, 1942: Iron Cross 1st class ,
• Infantry Assault Badge ,
• August 3, 1942: German cross in gold
• 1943: Wound badge
• 1984: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1992: Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg

literature

• Hans-Heinrich Jescheck , Theo Vogler (Ed.): Festschrift for Herbert Tröndle on his 70th birthday on August 24, 1989 . De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1989, ISBN 978-3-11011-705-9
• Eric Hilgendorf (Ed.): The German-language criminal law studies in self-portrayals (= contemporary legal history. Department 4: Life and work - biographies and work analyzes. Vol. 12). De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-89949-791-5 , p. 595 ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Tröndle in the catalog of the German National Library
• A representative of the law with cultural commitment ( Badische Zeitung , August 24, 2009, accessed August 25, 2017)
• Obituary notice for Herbert Tröndle

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} mourning for an exceptional lawyer . Herbert Tröndle is dead. The former president of the regional court and nationally recognized judge was 98 years old. In: Südkurier, Alb-Bote . Opinion of the Waldshut district October 10, 2017, p. 2 .
2. ^ Herbert Tröndle: The Pregnancy and Family Aid Amendment Act . In: New legal weekly . tape 48 , no. 46 . CH Beck , 1995, ISSN  0341-1915 , p. 3009-3019 ( beck.de ).
3. ^ Herbert Tröndle: § 182 . Marg. 3 ff. In: Criminal Code and subsidiary laws . 48th edition. CH Beck, Munich 1997.
4. ^ Herbert Tröndle: Ideology instead of youth protection? In: Journal for Legal Policy . tape 25 , no. 8 . CH Beck , 1992, ISSN  0514-6496 , p. 297-302 , JSTOR : 23422636 .