Horst Student Springorum

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Horst Schüler-Springorum (born October 15, 1928 in Tehran , Iran ; died September 5, 2015 in Kleinmachnow , Germany ) was a German legal scholar specializing in criminology and the penal system .

Life

Horst Schüler-Springorum was born in a village near Tehran in Iran and grew up in Berlin . After the Second World War, he first studied political science on a scholarship in Baltimore , before turning to law, which he studied at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the Philipps University in Marburg . It was in 1956 at the University of Marburg in international law for Dr. iur. PhD. He became a research assistant at the University of Bonn and initially specialized in energy and water law. He was temporarily assistant to Ludwig Erhard . In 1957 he switched to Rudolf Sieverts at the University of Hamburg . Linked to this was the change to criminal law . In 1967 he qualified as a professor at Sieverts with a work on the penal system in transition .

His habilitation thesis is considered groundbreaking. For the first time, he took the position in a coherent and consistent manner that prisoners are also bearers of fundamental rights and that their fundamental rights may only be interfered with on the basis of a law ( legal reservation ) and only to the extent absolutely necessary (principle of proportionality ). Until then, the prisoner was considered to be subject to a special relationship of violence ( special legal relationship ), which was not accessible to the weighing of basic rights. Resocialization was thus demanded as an implementation goal . The Federal Constitutional Court accepted this position in 1972. The work was also received internationally. Thereupon Gustav Heinemann appointed a commission to work out proposals for the new regulation of the penal system. It was directed by Sieverts, and the school's Springorum played a key role. In 1976 the prison law prepared in this way was passed.

Schüler-Springorum became a professor at the University of Göttingen in 1967 and from 1971 as the successor to Sievert emeritus in Hamburg. From 1975 until his retirement in 1993 he was a full professor for criminal law, criminology, youth law and the penal system at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich ; his successor was Heinz Schöch . In the summer semester of 1996 he was Otto von Freising visiting professor at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . In Munich he set up a research group on juvenile delinquency, on which Siegfried Lamnek , Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer , Christian Pfeiffer , Joachim Kersten , Peter-Alexis Albrecht and Reinhard Kreissl worked at times .

With the book Kriminalpolitik für Menschen he initiated the discussion on decriminalization . As a juvenile criminal lawyer, Schüler-Springorum was involved in the German Association for Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Courts (DVJJ) ; from 1962 to 1968 he was managing director of the DVJJ and from 1968 to 1986 chairman of the DVJJ. For a long time he was on the board of the International Association of Juvenile Judges, from 1978 to 1982 its president. In 1973, Schüler-Springorum took over the editing of the monthly magazine for criminology and criminal law reform and led it until 1998. During this time, significant changes in criminal law and the penal system took place. Criminal policy, psychiatry, and the social sciences came to the fore for criminologists and the monthly.

Schüler-Springorum was significantly involved in the major criminal law reform and the following developments in criminal policy, he co-wrote eleven of the twelve so-called alternative drafts (AE).

In the 1960s, Schüler-Springorum was a delegate in the Ecumenical Council of Churches , and in 1964 he published the book The Mortgage Time - Building Blocks for the Future of the Church .

For the United Nations he has worked several times as an expert in specialist committees. Under his leadership, the Beijing Rules , adopted in 1985, were drawn up, which set international minimum standards for juvenile justice and still represent the central set of human rights for children and young people in court. He was instrumental in promoting the UN standards for juvenile detention and the Riyadh Guidlines for the prevention of juvenile delinquency, both from 1990. Since 1978 he has worked extensively for the Council of Europe .

He has three daughters, including the historian Stefanie Schüler-Springorum .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Against the practical necessity (= Otto von Freising lectures of the Catholic University of Eichstätt. Vol. 15). Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56309-2 .
  • Criminal policy for people (= Edition Suhrkamp. Es. 1651 = NF 651). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-11651-7 .
  • Criminal aspects of civil disobedience. In: Peter Glotz (Ed.): Civil disobedience in the rule of law (= Edition Suhrkamp. Es. 1214 = NF 214). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-518-11214-7 , pp. 76-98.
  • What's wrong with the prison system? (= Time questions. No. 7). Wegner, Hamburg 1970, ISBN 3-8032-0146-2 .
  • Prison in transition. Studies on the state of enforcement law theory (= Göttingen jurisprudential studies. Vol. 72, ZDB -ID 503123-0 ). Schwartz, Göttingen 1969, (At the same time: Hamburg, University, habilitation paper, 1967: The legal status of the prisoner. ).
  • with Lieselotte Pongratz and Rudolf Sieverts : Socially conspicuous young people (= overview of scientific youth studies. Vol. 5, ZDB -ID 531178-0 ). Juventa, Munich 1964.
  • State of emergency in international law. Marburg 1956 (Marburg, University, Faculty of Law and Political Science, dissertation from March 15, 1956, typed).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family obituary notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 10, 2015. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Heribert Prantl : He shook the bars. Obituary. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 12, 2015, p. 8.
  3. ↑ a b c Horst Schüler-Springorum. In: Rudolf Sieverts et al. (Ed.): Short dictionary of criminology. Volume 5: Supplementary and register volume . Completely revised 2nd edition. De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1998, ISBN 3-11-016171-0 , p. 728.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Frieder Dünkel: In memoriam Horst Schüler-Springorum . In: Monthly for Criminology and Criminal Law Reform, Volume 98, Issue 5 (October 2015), pp. 409–411
  5. ↑ BVerfG: judgment v. March 14, 1972, Az. 2 BvR 41/71 , at telemedicus.info
  6. ^ Otto von Freising guest professorship ( memento from October 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, accessed on September 14, 2015.
  7. ^ A b c Hans-Jörg Albrecht, Stephan Quensel, Helmut Remschmidt: Obituary for Horst Schüler-Springorum . In: Monthly for Criminology and Criminal Law Reform, Volume 98, Issue 5 (October 2015), pp. 412–414
  8. ↑ Prof. Dr. Horst Schüler-Springorum passed away , DVJJ, September 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Student Springorum, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 2015
Place of death Kleinmachnow , Brandenburg , Germany