Horst Schröder (lawyer)

Horst Schröder (born March 9, 1913 in Bremen , † September 12, 1973 in Viareggio , Italy ) was a German legal scholar and professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

Schröder studied in Münster , where he passed the second state examination in law in 1936. He also received his doctorate in Münster in 1937 with a thesis on the prerequisites for the applicability of the standards of company regulations and tariff regulations to the relationship between entrepreneur and follower ; In 1939 the habilitation followed . The subject of the habilitation thesis was untruthful and untruthful oath .

In 1942 Schröder became an associate professor at the University of Graz , before he was appointed full professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel in 1948 . 1955 followed a call to the Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen to the chair previously held by Adolf Schönke . Here Schröder taught criminal law, criminal procedural law and civil procedural law until his death in a swimming accident.

After Adolf Schönke's death (1953) he edited his comments on civil procedure law in the 8th edition and above all on the criminal code (from the 7th edition). The latter is still today one of the standard commentaries on the German criminal code under the title Schönke / Schröder .

After his death, students and companions dedicated a memorial to him in 1978. His son Wolf Christian Schröder (* 1947) is a writer .

literature

• Walter Stree : On the death of Horst Schröder , JZ 1973, 1968

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Schröder in the catalog of the German National Library