Hilde Kaufmann

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Hilde Kaufmann (born October 28, 1920 in Werne ; † January 11, 1981 in Cologne ) was a German legal scholar and criminologist .

Life

Grave of Hilde Kaufmann in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

Hilde Kaufmann was the first of four children of a teacher couple. She graduated from high school in 1939 with distinction. She had to interrupt a law degree that she had begun in 1943 because of her commitment to the armaments industry , but was able to continue it from 1945 at the University of Bonn and complete her first state examination in 1948 . After her doctorate (1950) and the second state examination in law (1952) she entered the judiciary ( public prosecutor's office in Bonn). In 1953 she switched to the Foreign Office as an assistant in the International Mercy Committee for War Criminals . From 1956 to 1961 Hilde Kaufmann was a research assistant and at the law and political science faculty of the University of Bonn, where she qualified as a professor in 1961 . At the same institute she worked first as a private lecturer (1962–1966), then as an adjunct professor (1966). From 1966 to 1970 Kaufmann was a professor at the University of Kiel , from 1970 until her death then professor and director of the criminological research center at the University of Cologne . Here she was the first woman ever to serve as dean of the law faculty in 1977/78. She died of a stroke on the evening of January 11, 1981 in Cologne. Her grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. R).

Her main scientific concern was to align criminology with the needs of criminal law and the administration of justice .

Fonts (selection)

  • Directory of the writings of Hilde Kaufmann, in: Hans Joachim Hirsch, Günther Kaiser, Helmut Marquardt (eds.): Gedächtnisschrift für Hilde Kaufmann . de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1986, pp. 997-1000.
  • What does criminology leave behind from criminal law? . In: Legal journal . Volume 17, 1962, pp. 193-199.
  • Criminology I. The origins of the crime . 1971
  • Criminology III. Correctional Services and Social Therapy . 1977.
  • Criminology for the purpose of social criticism . In: Legal journal . Volume 27, 1972, pp. 78-81.

literature

  • Helmut Marquardt: Hilde Kaufmann. A sketch of her life and her scientific work. In: Hans Joachim Hirsch, Günther Kaiser , Helmut Marquardt (Hrsg.): Memorial for Hilde Kaufmann . 1986.

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personal data
SURNAME Merchant, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminologist and legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Werne
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1981
Place of death Cologne