Peter Rieß (lawyer)

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Peter Rieß (born June 4, 1932 in Hamburg ) is a German lawyer . Since the beginning of the 1970s, he has accompanied federal legislative projects as a ministerial official and has published specialist scientific articles.

Life

Riess studied law at the University of Hamburg , graduated in 1956 and in 1960 there both legal state exams and was in 1959 with the issue of Parliamentary incompatibilities in the current constitutional law of the federal and state governments in the constitutional lawyer Hans Peter Ipsen a doctorate in law doctorate . In 1961 Riess joined the judicial service of the state of Hamburg and from 1969 to 1971 was seconded to the Hamburg judicial authority as a consultant for criminal law . In 1971 he moved to the Federal Ministry of Justice , where he headed a department responsible for criminal procedure law until 1986. He then headed the administration of justice until his retirement in 1996 .

Scientific activity

As editor and author of the major commentary on the Code of Criminal Procedure "Löwe-Rosenberg" in the 24th and 25th edition, Rieß accompanied the development of criminal procedural law from a scientific perspective. Since 1977 he has been teaching at the University of Göttingen , where he was appointed honorary professor in 1982 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership page of the Working Group Alternative Draft ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Ernst-Walter Hanack, Hans Hilger, Volkmar Mehle, Gunter Widmaeier (eds.): "Festschrift for Peter Riess on his 70th birthday on June 4, 2002", Berlin, New York 2002, p. XIII.
  3. ↑ Ernst-Walter Hanack, Hans Hilger, Volkmar Mehle, Gunter Widmaeier (eds.): "Festschrift for Peter Riess on his 70th birthday on June 4, 2002", Berlin, New York 2002, p. XIV.
  4. ↑ http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/honorarprofessoren/57263.html
personal data
SURNAME Riess, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg