Knut Amelung

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Knut Amelung (born February 13, 1939 in Stettin ; † January 26, 2016 ) was a German criminal law scholar .

Life

Amelung was born in Szczecin , where his father worked as a dentist since 1927. After fleeing from Stettin, Amelung grew up in Helmstedt in Lower Saxony on the inner-German border, his father's hometown. From 1960 to 1965 Amelung studied law and sociology at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Lausanne and Göttingen . In 1971 he did his doctorate - as a student of Claus Roxin - with a thesis on the protection of legal interests under criminal law . From 1975 to 1977 he was Scientific Councilor and Professor of Criminal Law at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 1977 to September 1992 he taught criminal law, criminal procedure law, legal sociology and methodology as a full professor at the University of Trier . There he was dean of the law faculty in 1981/1982 and chairman of the university assembly from 1989 to 1992. In the winter semester 1985/1986 he worked as a scholarship holder of the Volkswagenwerk Foundation at Columbia University in New York . In 1981 he turned down an offer from Bielefeld University , and in 1988 from Münster University ; in both cases the students had offered Amelung a torchlight procession.

In July 1992 he accepted the chair for criminal law, criminal procedural law and legal theory at the Technical University of Dresden . From April 1993 to March 1994 he was dean of the new law faculty. On July 6, 2006, Amelung gave his farewell lecture on incitement to the law faculty of the TU Dresden .

Afterwards Amelung worked as a lawyer - among other things, he was one of the legal representatives of the complainant in the incest ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court in 2008 .

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Amelung's main interests lay in the social science foundations of criminal law, the relationships between criminal, constitutional and administrative law, medical criminal law and the protection of fundamental rights in criminal proceedings.

He independently published the monographs:

  • 1972: Protection of legal interests and protection of society
  • 1976: Legal protection against criminal procedural encroachments on fundamental rights
  • 1981: Consent to the impairment of a fundamental right
  • 1990: Information control rights in criminal proceedings
  • 1995: Veto rights restricted those able to give consent in border areas of medical intervention
  • 1996: Trespassing, 2nd edition
  • 1996: The criminal justice of the GDR injustice by the judiciary of the Federal Republic
  • 1998: Error and deception as the basis of a lack of will in the consent of the injured party
  • 2002: Honor as a prerequisite for communication
  • 2011: Principles of prohibitions on the use of evidence in criminal proceedings (anthology with additions)

Amelung was the editor of the collective work Individual Responsibility and Participation Relationships in Criminal Offenses in Bureaucratic Organizations of the State, Business and Society from the year 2000 as well as co-author of the alternative commentary on the Code of Criminal Procedure and the text May doctors do research with dementia sufferers? from 1995.

He was a member of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine eV and on the advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg im Breisgau .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Sächsische Zeitung from February 6, 2016.
  2. See Bundesverfassungsgericht.de