Karl Peters (legal scholar)

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Karl Peters (born January 23, 1904 in Koblenz , † July 2, 1998 in Münster ) was a German legal scholar and expert in criminal procedure and youth law , who dealt with the theory and practice of the law of readmission.

Life and research

As the son of the later Münster university curator Franz Peters, he studied law at the universities of Königsberg , Leipzig and Münster . There he became a member of the Catholic student union AV Zollern Münster in 1922 and received his doctorate in 1925 with a thesis on state and constitutional law. In 1931 he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne with a thesis on the criminal-political position of the criminal judge in determining the consequences of criminal law.

From 1942 to 1946 he was full professor of criminal law and the code of criminal procedure at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald , then from 1946 to 1962 he held a corresponding chair at the law faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. Until his retirement in 1972, Peters taught and researched at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , then again in Münster. He was also thirteen years as a prosecutor and many years in addition to office as High Court Judge operate.

Peters advocated relaxation of the penal system as early as the 1950s. Among other things, he achieved the abolition of the multiple punishments of refusals at the Federal Constitutional Court . His contributions were considered to be decisive “for the reform of criminal, sexual and penal law; he was one of the founders of crime pedagogy . Commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Justice, he devoted himself in the 1960s, the systematic processing of miscarriages of justice. "The issue of sentencing and to free evaluation of evidence has Peters employs up into old age. In 1993 he held a three-day cycle of lectures on this, his life topic, at his old faculty in Greifswald.

Awards

  • In 1973 he was awarded the Gold Beccaria Medal by the German Criminological Society .
  • In 1974 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • In 1975, Pope Paul VI was awarded the Commander's Cross with the Star of the New Year's Eve .
  • Peters received further honors in 1984 when he was awarded the honorary doctorate Dr. phil. hc from the Philipps University of Marburg and in 1989 an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster.
  • Several streets have been named after him, which is partly due to the fact that they have the same name as the former colonialist Carl Peters . In 2010, Bremen decided to keep the name Karl-Peters-Straße in the Walle district , but no longer wanted to remember the colony founder of the same name in Africa, but rather the lawyer.

Fonts

  • Nature and position of the chambers standing next to the People's House in the parliamentary multi-chamber system. Regensberg, Münster 1927 (dissertation, University of Münster, 1927).
  • The criminal-political position of the criminal judge in determining the consequences of criminal law. Springer, Berlin 1932.
  • Witness lies and the outcome of the process. Röhrscheid, Bonn 1939.
  • Juvenile Court Act of February 16, 1923 with supplementary laws, ordinances and administrative provisions in the field of juvenile criminal law. Compiled and explained by Karl Peters. De Gruyter, Berlin 1942.
  • Developing juvenile criminal law: Thoughts, drafts and reasons for the reorganization of the Juvenile Courts Act. Dümmler, Bonn 1947.
  • The youth and the authority of the law. In: Festschrift for Ernst Heinrich Rosenfeld. De Gruyter, Berlin 1949, pp. 215-229.
  • Criminal Trial A textbook. Müller, Karlsruhe 1952; 4th edition: Müller, Heidelberg / Karlsruhe 1985.
  • Sources of error in criminal proceedings: An investigation into the retrial in the Federal Republic of Germany. 3 volumes. Müller, Karlsruhe 1970–1974.
  • Failed retrial. In: Festschrift for Wilhelm Gallas on his 70th birthday on July 22, 1973. De Gruyter, Berlin 1973, pp. 441–457.
  • Justice as fate. A plea for “the other side”. De Gruyter, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-11-008084-2 .
  • Criminal Justice and Humanity. Selected Writings. Edited by Wilfried Küper and Klaus Wasserburg. Müller, Heidelberg 1988, ISBN 3-8114-1787-8 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New legal weekly . 1968, p. 982.
  2. ↑ Died: Karl Peters . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1998, pp. 186 ( online - with photo).
  3. ↑ Prof. Karl Peters has died: Internationally known expert in criminal procedural law and youth law ( Memento from May 23, 2002 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster, July 7, 1998, accessed on July 7, 2013.
  4. ↑ Anne Gerling: “Karl-Peters-Straße” remains. In: Weser courier . January 7, 2010, accessed July 7, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Peters, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH July 2nd, 1998
Place of death Muenster