Hermann Mannheim

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Hermann Mannheim (born October 26, 1889 in Libau , Russian Empire , † January 20, 1974 in Orpington near London) was a German- British criminologist .

Life

Hermann Mannheim was of Jewish descent. After attending school, he studied law in Munich, Freiburg, Strasbourg and Königsberg. In 1911 he passed his first state examination. In 1912 he received his doctorate . In 1913 he passed the second state examination. He then worked as a lawyer until the beginning of the First World War .

During the war he was an artillery officer. In 1923 he entered the judicial service and was appointed judge at the regional court in Berlin. In 1931 he was transferred to the higher court as judge . At the same time he conducted criminological studies at the Berlin Friedrich Wilhelms University. In 1924 he completed his habilitation there. He then held lectures there until mid-1933 as a non-civil servant associate professor.

After the National Socialists came to power , Mannheim was dismissed from its judicial office because of its - according to National Socialist definition - Jewish origin and harassed at the university. He requested leave for research purposes. At the beginning of 1935 he had to resign from his academic position due to increasing repression and emigrated to Great Britain, where he settled in London. He was naturalized there in 1940.

From 1935 Mannheim worked as a researcher at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he continued to devote himself to criminology. In 1946 he was appointed full professor there. Mannheim developed into the "internationally leading" criminologist. One of his main areas of work was comparative criminology. His standard work Comparative Criminology compares sociological and legal perspectives. The Criminological Institute at the LSE is named after him: Mannheim Center for Criminology .

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the doctrine of revision due to substantive violations in criminal proceedings. Springer, Berlin 1925.
  • Press law. Springer, Berlin 1927.
  • Criminal Procedure Code [for the German Reich] and Courts Constitution Act: Text edition with introduction, comments and subsidiary laws. Edited by Eduard Kohlrausch in conjunction with Hermann Mannheim. 22nd edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1930; 23rd edition 1933.
  • Legal cases from criminal procedural law: With brief instructions on how to deal with criminal procedural cases and how to develop a criminal judgment. Springer, Berlin 1930.
  • The dilemma of penal reform. London: Allen and Unwin, 1939.
  • Comparative criminology. Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd, London 1939.
  • Social aspects of crime in England between the wars. Allen and Unwin, London 1940.
  • War and crime. Watts, London 1941.
  • Criminal justice and social reconstruction. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London 1946.
  • Lawless youth. Allen & Unwin, London 1947.
  • The criminal treatment of young law breakers (over 18 years of age) in England, France and the Federal Republic of Germany. Metzner, Frankfurt am Main 1958.
  • Comparative Criminology: A Textbook in 2 Volumes. Preface by Thomas Würtenberger . Enke, Stuttgart 1974 (German translation of Comparative Criminology , published in London in 1939 ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna-Maria Gräfin von Lösch: The naked spirit: The law faculty of the Berlin University in upheaval in 1933. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-16-147245-4 , p. 308
  2. ↑ Peter Landau in his article Jurists of Jewish Origin in the Empire and in the Weimar Republic. in Helmut Heinrichs u. a. (Ed.): German lawyers of Jewish origin. Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-36960-X , p. 190.
personal data
SURNAME Mannheim, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Libau
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1974
Place of death Orpington