Joachim Herrmann (legal scholar)

Joachim Herrmann (born January 31, 1933 in Berlin ) is a German legal scholar .

After studying at the universities in Heidelberg , Basel and Freiburg im Breisgau , he received his doctorate in 1959 as a student of Hans-Heinrich Jescheck in Freiburg with a thesis on the applicability of political criminal law to Germans in the relationship between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic .

This was followed by a stay abroad in New Orleans at Tulane University and the acquisition of a Master of Common Law qualification .

Back in Germany, Herrmann worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg; In 1970 he completed his habilitation with the work The Reform of the German Main Trial based on the model of the Anglo-American criminal procedure .

In 1972 Herrmann accepted a professorship for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Augsburg , which he held until 2001. During this time he was also a visiting professor at a number of international universities. Augsburg remained his academic home; in the following years he held the office of dean and vice-president of the university.

Since his retirement, Herrmann has been working as a lawyer in Augsburg and was visiting professor at Waseda University and the University of Pittsburgh in 2001, at the American University in Bishkek ( Kyrgyzstan ) and the University of California, Davis in 2002, and again at the University of Pittsburgh in 2003 and the American University in Bishkek.

Herrmann's research and publication focus is on criminal and criminal procedural law as well as comparative law .

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Herrmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. em. Herrmann on the homepage of the University of Augsburg