John Lekschas

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John Lekschas (born October 10, 1925 in Memel ; † July 8, 1999 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and author. He was the leading criminologist in the GDR .

Life

The son of a captain of coastal shipping attended elementary and middle school in Königsberg . He served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945 and was briefly an American prisoner of war .

From 1945 to 1947 he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in Hamburg and Waldheim / Saxony . In 1947 he became a member of the SED and his construction company delegated him to the pre-study institute in Leipzig , where he obtained his university entrance qualification. From 1947 to 1951 studied Lekschas at the law faculties of the universities of Berlin and Halle jurisprudence .

Work in Halle / Saale

From 1951 to 1961 he worked as a university lecturer at the Martin Luther University Halle (MLU). After the faculty structure was reorganized by abolishing the law seminar that had existed for over a hundred years , the so-called perception lecturer Leschkas also served as director of the Institute for Criminal Law , while his wife Eva Lekschas-Lange, daughter of the national education minister Fritz Lange , at the law faculty of the University of Halle in in the same position was responsible for constitutional and administrative law. At the MLU , the criminal lawyer Lekschas received his doctorate in 1952 and his habilitation in 1961 . After working as a part-time judge at the Halle District Court from 1955 to 1957, he became a part-time judge at the Supreme Court of the GDR in 1957 . At the age of 31 he was given a teaching position as professor for criminal law at the University of Halle. From 1957 to 1961 Lekschas worked as vice dean and later as dean at the Halle Law Faculty. He invited the criminal lawyer Arthur Wegner , who was then teaching at the University of Münster, who was ousted from office in Halle / Saale in 1937 because of his Jewish wife and with whom he joined after the textbook on criminal law was published. General part had corresponded professionally since 1951 to participate in the National Council meeting of the National Front on July 1, 1959 in Berlin. The successor in the office of Leschkas as dean of the law faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg was the international lawyer Gerhard Reintanz .

Activities in Berlin

In 1961 Leschkas was transferred to the Humboldt University of Berlin to strengthen his criminal law training, where he worked as a professor for criminal law and criminology until 1990 . In Berlin he worked as dean of the law faculty (1962 to 1964), director of the Institute for Criminal Law (1962 to 1966), prorector for social sciences (1966 to 1968), director of the law section (1969 to 1973) and dean of the social sciences Faculty (1975 to 1979) at Humboldt University.

Lekschas was from 1963 to 1968 a member of the college of the Public Prosecutor General of the GDR, from 1969 a member of the Council for State and Legal Research at DASR and AdW and from 1973 a corresponding member of AdW. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , he retired in 1990.

Lekschas was chairman of the GDR-Egypt friendship committee from December 1973 to 1978 and president of the GDR-Canada friendship society from 1978 to 1981.

Since the mid-1950s, he has devoted his academic work to questions of criminal guilt . The concept of guilt he had drafted was legally fixed in the GDR Criminal Code of 1968. In the 1960s he turned more and more problems to juvenile delinquency . In addition, criminology moved increasingly into the focus of his scientific work.

Together with other authors, he represented the so-called relic theory in the first monograph “Kriminologie” in 1966, which placed the causes of crime outside the given living conditions (crime is alien to socialism, existing crime is an expression of “relics” of traditional (petty) bourgeois attitudes the pre-socialist social order and the influences of the capitalist environment), he corrected his own scientific opinion in the work "Criminology - Theoretical Foundations and Analyzes" in 1983 and put forward the thesis that social contradictions that lead to delinquent behavior are also effective in socialist society among young people.

He died on July 8, 1999 in Berlin.

Awards

Works

  • The causality in the criminal act . German Central Publishing House, 1952
  • Guilt as the subjective side of the criminal act . German Central Publishing House, 1955
  • About the criminality of crimes of negligence . German Central Publishing House, 1958
  • To reorganize guilt in the general part of a future socialist penal code of the German Democratic Republic . German Central Publishing House, 1959
  • Responsibility and guilt in the new criminal code . State publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, 1964
  • Juvenile delinquency and how to combat it in a socialist society . Berlin, Staatsverlag 1965. Ed. Institute f. Criminal Law of the Humboldt University Berlin.
  • Criminology . State publisher of the German Democratic Republic, 1983
  • For the prevention of minors' crime - research problems . (Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, social sciences, year 1984, No. 1 / G). Akademie-Verlag Berlin.
  • Criminal law of the GDR: textbook . [Head of the authors' collective, John Lekschas; Overall editor, John Lekschas, Erich Buchholz] State publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, 1988
  • Problems of future criminal policy in the GDR . (Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, social sciences, year 1989, No. 11 / G). Akademie-Verlag Berlin.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press conference of the Dean of the Law Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Prof. Dr. John Lekschas, with ADN , reprinted in part in the daily newspaper Neue Zeit , August 11, 1959, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Lekschas, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Memel
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1999
Place of death Berlin