Jürgen Welp (legal scholar)

Jürgen Welp (* 1936 in Osnabrück ; † February 3, 2014 ) was a German law scholar and university professor.

life and work

Welp studied law at the University of Heidelberg from 1956 and later moved to the University of Munich . However, he passed his first state examination in law again in Heidelberg, where he also did his legal clerkship, which he completed in 1965 with the second state examination. Then Welp became a scientific assistant to Wilhelm Gallas at his Heidelberg chair. Under his supervision, Welp was awarded a doctorate in 1967 with a thesis on criminal omission. iur. PhD. In 1971 he completed his habilitation and received the venia legendi for the subjects of criminal law and criminal procedure law.

In 1972 Welp became a scientific adviser and professor at the University of Münster . In the following year he took over the chair for criminal law and criminal procedure law there as a full professor to succeed Theodor Lenckner . From 1976 to 1983 he also worked as a part-time judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court . He then worked alongside his university activities as a criminal defense lawyer and as such was involved in the Mannesmann trial , among other things . In 2001, Welp retired.

Welp's research focus was primarily on criminal procedural law and there in turn on the law of criminal defense. This also included the criminal law secrecy and data protection as well as criminal procedural monitoring and control. He took a more liberal standpoint in his works, in which the citizen was given as much freedom as possible.

Fonts (selection)

• Previous action as the basis of an action equivalence of omission . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1968 (dissertation).
• The criminal procedural surveillance of the postal and telecommunications traffic . Winter, Heidelberg 1974, ISBN 978-3-533-02389-0 .
• Compulsory powers for the public prosecutor . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1976, ISBN 978-3-16-638581-5 .
• Surveillance and control: Telecommunications data as the subject of criminal investigations . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-428-10255-6 .
• Defense and Surveillance: Articles and Lectures in Criminal Procedure 1970-2000 . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 978-3-7890-7646-6 .
• Federal criminal jurisdiction . Lit-Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 978-3-8258-5833-9 .

Web links

• Mourning for Prof. em. Dr. Jürgen Welp , obituary from the University of Münster

literature

• Thomas Vormbaum : Obituary Jürgen Welp , in JZ 2014, p. 337f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vormbaum, JZ 2014, p. 338.