Hermann lead

Hermann Blei (born May 14, 1929 in Mährisch Schönberg ; † August 6, 1999 in Berlin ) was a German criminal law scholar .

Live and act

Hermann Blei was a law student in Bamberg and Erlangen . There he was in 1956 with a thesis on offense concept of § 59 of the Criminal Code and the error over a justification doctorate . He later belonged to the group of assistants around Reinhart Maurach at the University of Munich . In 1954, he dedicated an essay in the NJW to his academic teacher Edmund Mezger on the criminal law concept of violence, which was to influence the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court on the impunity of sit-ins.

At the age of only 29, Blei became a lecturer at the University of Lausanne . Immediately after his habilitation in 1961, he became full professor for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the Free University of Berlin , where he remained until his retirement.

Grave of Hermann Blei in the Zehlendorf cemetery

From Mezger, Blei also took over the authorship of the two Beck'schen short textbooks on the general and special parts of criminal law, which he supervised until 1983, when they were published in their 18th and 12th editions. In addition to these books, Bleis' didactic talent proved himself as the author of the two works on the general and special part of criminal law from the series Check your knowledge by the same publisher. In addition, lead came out through a number of outstanding contributions and essays. In the 1970s he was also one of the editors of the legal worksheets ( JA ).

Blei was a founding member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1979 .

Hermann Blei died in Berlin in 1999 at the age of 70. His grave is in the Zehlendorf cemetery . (Field 008-120)

Web links

Literature by and about Hermann Blei in the catalog of the German National Library
Obituary FU-Berlin
Entry on the website of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts

Individual evidence

^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 671.

personal data
SURNAME	Lead, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German criminal law scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	May 14, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moravian Schönberg
DATE OF DEATH	August 6, 1999
Place of death	Berlin , Germany

[1] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 671.