Klaus Lüderssen

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Klaus Lüderssen (born May 2, 1932 in Germerode ; † June 4, 2016 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German legal scholar and legal sociologist .

Career

After studying law at the Universities of Marburg and Frankfurt am Main , Lüderssen passed the first state examination in law in 1957. The assessor exam followed in 1962. In 1965 Lüderssen received his doctorate with a thesis “On the punishment of participation” with Wolfgang Preiser and Friedrich Geerds in Frankfurt. The habilitation took place there in 1970 ("Experience as a legal source").

He then received a professorship at the University of Göttingen before returning to Frankfurt in 1971 for a C4 professorship, where he has since taught criminal law , criminal procedural law , legal philosophy and legal sociology . In 1975 he turned down a call to the University of Hanover .

In addition to his apprenticeship, Lüderssen also worked as a criminal defense lawyer . In 2000 he retired.

Lüderssen's teaching was characterized by an enlightened and liberal attitude as well as a great interest in the basic conditions for criminal law and for punishment in a democratic society. He introduced his students to criminal law on the basis of the topoi of "crime and criminalization" . In the 1970s and 1980s, in cooperation with Fritz Sack , he endeavored to combine critical criminology with law . This project can be seen as a failure. Lüderssen later distanced himself from the critical criminology of Sack's expression. Until the mid-1980s, he mainly dealt with the penal system. During this time, together with Clemens de Boor and Herbert Jäger, he headed the Institute for Psychoanalytic Sociotherapy and Criminal Sociology, which was funded as a project by the German Research Foundation . Since the late 1980s he has been interested in the “productive reflections” (one of the book titles) of literature and law .

Lüderssen has published extensively and was editor of the criminal defense journal .

Klaus Lüderssen lived in Frankfurt am Main. He was married and had two children.

Fonts (selection)

Writings published together with Fritz Sack
  • Seminar: Deviant Behavior, Volume 1: The Selective Norms of Society (1975).
  • Seminar: Deviant Behavior, Volume 2: The Social Reaction to Crime I (1975).
  • Seminar: Deviant Behavior, Volume 3: The Social Reaction to Crime II (1977).
  • Seminar: Deviant Behavior, Volume 4: Criminal Policy and Criminal Law (1980).
  • On the benefits and disadvantages of the social sciences for criminal law (first and second volume 1980).
additional
  • Experience as a legal source. Abduction and Falsification of Hypotheses in the Legal Decision-Making Process (1972)
  • Criminal policy on winding roads. Essays on teaching theory and practice (1981)
  • Criminology. Introduction to the Issues of Crime and Criminalization (1984).
  • The Public Criminal Entitlement Crisis (1989).
  • Productive reflections. Law and Crime in Literature (1991).
  • The state is going under - the injustice remains? On government crime in the former GDR (1992).
  • Abolition of Punishment (1995).
  • Genesis and Validity in Jurisprudence (1996).
  • Enlightened criminal policy or the fight against evil? (Ed. - 5 volumes 1998).
  • Goethe and Jurisprudence (1999).
  • Eichendorff and Law (2007).
  • The problematic relationship between efficiency and competition in the financial market (2011)

literature

  • Cornelius Prittwitz (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Klaus Lüderssen. For his 70th birthday on May 2, 2002 . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 3-7890-7887-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Lüderssen died , in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 6, 2016, page 4
  2. ^ Lüderssen, Klaus in Frankfurter Personenlexikon
personal data
SURNAME Lüderssen, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Germerode
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 2016
Place of death Frankfurt am Main