Karl von Lilienthal

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Karl von Lilienthal (1905)

Karl Ludwig Julius von Lilienthal (born August 31, 1853 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), † November 8, 1927 in Heidelberg ) was a German law scholar and professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

life and work

Lilienthal, son of the businessman Ludwig von Lilienthal , studied law at the University of Berlin from 1868 after attending grammar school in Elberfeld (1865–1868) and graduating from high school . There he put his exam and was 1873 with no dissertation at the University of Heidelberg to the Dr. iur. PhD. After completing his legal clerkship at the Elberfeld Regional Court , he then worked as an assessor at the local public prosecutor's office. In 1879 Lilienthal completed his habilitation under the supervision of Adolf Dochow (1844-1881) at the University of Halle with a paper on collective offenses and an inaugural lecture on Prussian usury legislation.

1882 Lilienthal was an ordinary criminal Chair at the University of Zurich appointed . In 1889 he moved to the University of Marburg as the successor to Franz von Liszt .

After the death of Karl Friedrich Rudolf Heinze (1825–1896), Lilienthal received a call from Heidelberg University to the now vacant full professorship for criminal law, criminal procedural law and canon law, a call that Lilienthal accepted "with great joy". In addition to the lectures belonging to his chair, he also gave lectures on civil procedural law and from 1902 was a part-time assistant judge at the Heidelberg Regional Court . In Heidelberg, Lilienthal was dean of the law faculty on several occasions and in 1912/13 the prorector of the university. In 1918 Karl von Lilienthal retired.

He died on November 8, 1927 in Heidelberg and his ashes were buried there in the mountain cemetery. His students include Eduard Kohlrausch , Gustav Radbruch and Wolfgang Mittermaier, the grandson of Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier .

Karl von Lilienthal was regarded as one of the “most prominent representatives of the modern, sociological direction in criminal law studies at the end of the 19th century.” He enjoyed the highest esteem among his professor colleagues. Although he did not publish extensive individual works, he shone with individual smaller monographs, articles in specialist journals and articles in compilations. Lilienthal was a proponent of opening up criminal law to other sciences such as criminology, psychology and sociology. It is difficult to determine a research focus. Lilienthal commented on numerous criminal law and criminal procedural issues, wrote comments on judgments and scientific articles and criticized the legislation. As early as 1925, in a critical comment, he demanded the abolition of the criminal liability of abortion and homosexual intercourse. Through his writings, he played a major role in the reforms of the StPO and the StGB in the period after their entry into force.

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the teaching of collective crimes . Halle an der Saale 1879 (habilitation thesis)
  • Ground plan for the lecture on German criminal law . 4th edition. Liebmann, Berlin 1916
  • Criminal procedural law . Springer, Berlin 1927

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl von Lilienthal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics of the Gymnasium zu Elberfeld, p. 81, no. 286 ( online ).
  2. ↑ quoted from Schroeder, p. 282
  3. ^ Küper in Doerr, p. 383.
  4. ↑ Schroeder, p. 283.
personal data
SURNAME Lilienthal, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lilienthal, Karl Ludwig Julius von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1927
Place of death Heidelberg