Heribert Ostendorf

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Heribert Ostendorf (born December 7, 1945 in Vestrup , Vechta district ) is a German legal scholar .

After studying law, obtaining his doctorate in Kiel in 1972 and legal clerkship in 1978, Ostendorf was appointed judge at the local court. In Neumünster he mainly worked as a youth judge. He completed his habilitation in 1982 at the University of Kiel under Erich Samson with a thesis on The Right to Hunger Strikes and was awarded the Venia Legendi for the areas of criminal law and criminal procedure law. From 1982 he taught as a professor at the University of Hamburg . From 1989 to 1997 he was Attorney General of the State of Schleswig-Holstein. Ostendorf asked to be dismissed from his position when Justice Minister Gerd Walter prevented his official instructions to the Lübeck public prosecutor's office in 1997 from stopping the investigation into the death of Uwe Barschel . From 1997 to 2013 Ostendorf was head of the newly established research center for juvenile criminal law and crime prevention at the University of Kiel.

He also dealt with the Nuremberg Trials and their successor processes.

In 2013 Ostendorf held his farewell lecture.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Attack against Kiel Minister of Justice - Attorney General accuses SPD politician Walter of meddling in the Barschel case - "Limit of illegality reached"
  2. ↑ Heribert Ostendorf, Heino ter Veen: Das Nürnberger Juristenprüfung, a commented documentation , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / Main-Berlin, 1985, Heribert Ostendorf: The - contradictory - effects of the Nuremberg trials on the West German judiciary , in: Gerd Hankel, Gerhard Stuby (Ed.), Criminal courts against crimes against humanity, Hamburg 1995
  3. ^ Ostendorf: Farewell to the university . Press release of the University of Kiel from February 7, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Ostendorf, Heribert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Vestrup