Jan Engbertus Jonkers

Jan Engbertus Jonkers (born May 10, 1890 in Buitenpost , † November 25, 1971 in Wassenaar ) was a Dutch criminal lawyer .

Life

Jan Engbertus Jonkers, son of pastor Engbertus Hendrik Jonkers (born April 16, 1861 in Diever; † March 8, 1948 in Zuid-Beijerland) and his wife Harmke Knottnerus (born March 29, 1865 in Nieuw-Scheemda; † May 28, 1939 in Goudswaard), attended grammar school in Kampen .

In 1910 he moved to the University of Leiden , where he initially wanted to study theology, but then turned to legal subjects. On September 24, 1915, he received his doctorate in law, passed the exam for Indonesian law in 1916 and was employed in the judicial service of the Dutch East Indies in the same year , initially as an official in the district administrator of Pati and later in the Raad van Justitie in Medan.

In 1918 he became extraordinary chairman of the Serang District Administrator, was a military auditor in Padang in 1919, became Chairman of the Sawahloento District Administrator in 1922, and in 1923 he was employed by the Attorney General's Office in Jakarta . In 1926 Jonkers joined the Ministry of Justice of the Dutch East Indies, was a public prosecutor in Makassar in 1928, in 1931 a public prosecutor in Padang and Medan and in 1933 a public prosecutor in Semarang . In 1935 he was appointed attorney general at the Jakarta Supreme Court.

On March 6, 1939 he became a special professor for criminal and procedural law of the Dutch East Indies at the University of Utrecht , which task he took on with the introductory speech De waarheid in het strafproces (German: The truth in the criminal process ).

On September 26, 1945 he was appointed to the full professorship for criminal and procedural law of the Dutch East Indies at the University of Leiden, which he did on June 14, 1946 with the inaugural speech De weg van het strafrecht (German: Der Weg von the criminal law ). The instruction was changed on July 4, 1953 to Indonesian and Dutch criminal and procedural law. In the academy year 1959/60 he became rector of the Alma Mater , for which he gave the rector's speech Recht in Bewegungs (German: Law in Movement ) on the 385th anniversary of the Leiden University on February 8, 1960 . He retired on August 18, 1960 and retired after the resignation of his rectorate in September of the same year. He spent the last years of his life in Wassenaar, where he finally died.

Jonkers married on September 22, 1916 in Waspik with Arabella Wilhelmina Adriana Huijgens (* around 1885 in The Hague; † April 14, 1979 in Wassenaar), the daughter of Willem Abraham Huijgens and his wife Wilhelmina Everdina van Overeem. There are two sons from the marriage. The son Engbert Hendrik Jonkers (* around 1919; † September 10, 1979 in Eindhoven) was married to Anneke Brenkman (* 1921) and after the death of his first wife on May 31, 1973 he married G. Th. ( Truus) Paymans a remarriage. The son Jan Jonkers (* around 1921; † October 21, 1987 in Laren) married Iet Mattern (* around 1920; † January 26, 1979 in The Hague).

Works (selection)

• De waarheid in het criminal proceedings. Groningen 1939
• Het vooronderzoek en de telastelegging in het Landraad-strafproces. Groningen 1940
• Het Nederlandsch-Indische criminal police. Utrecht 1940
• Vrouwe Justitia in de tropics. Deventer 1943
• De weg van het criminal law. Leiden 1946
• Praeadvies over de beledigde partij in het Nederlandse strafproces. Zwolle 1954
• Het right in motion. Leiden 1960
• Handboek van het Nederlandsch-Indian criminal law. Leiden 1946; Jogjakarta 1964 (Indonesian: Hukum pidana Hindia Belanda. Jakarta 1987)

literature

• How is that? Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1948, p. 254

Web links

• Jonkers in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden
• Jonkers in the Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae
• Jonkers at the Digital Library of Dutch Literature (DBNL)