Rainer Beckmann (lawyer)

Rainer Beckmann (* 1961 ) is a German lawyer and medical law expert .

Life

After studying law in Würzburg , Beckmann worked from 1991 to 1992 as a research assistant for a CDU member of the Bundestag in Bonn, then until 1995 as a public prosecutor in Nuremberg and Würzburg, then until 1997 as a consultant for criminal law and public law in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . After working as a public prosecutor in Würzburg from 1997 to 2000, he has been a judge at the local court since March 2000.

Beckmann is also a lecturer at the Palliative Academy of the Julius Hospital in Würzburg and a lecturer in medical law at the Mannheim Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg . In the 14th and 15th electoral term of the German Bundestag, he was an expert member of the Enquete Commission Law and Ethics of Modern Medicine of the German Bundestag (2000–2005).

Beckmann is also a member of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine and, since 1997, deputy chairman of the Juristen-Vereinigung Lebensrecht e. V. (Cologne) and since 2001 editor of the Zeitschrift für Lebensrecht . He found the embryo offensive action at least as justified as actions by Greenpeace or animal rights activists.

Beckmann was married to the CSU politician Pia Beckmann and has four children. In 2009 he took part in the New York City Marathon .

Work areas

In his academic teaching and public lecturing and publishing activities, Beckmann deals with the medical ethical and medical law issues of living will , euthanasia , pre-implantation diagnostics , stem cell research , cloning , embryo protection , abortion and other topics. Among other things, Beckmann denies brain death as a reliable and sufficient criterion for determining the death of a person.

Fonts

Books

• Abortion under discussion. Fifty claims and their refutation. 3rd revised and expanded edition. Sinus-Verlag, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-88289-805-4
• The dispute over the advice slip. Johann Wilhelm Naumann-Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88567-085-2
• with Mechthild Löhr (Ed.): The status of the embryo. Medicine - Ethics - Law. Verlag Johann Wilhelm Naumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-88567-089-5 ; Excerpt: Beckmann: The Embryo and Human Dignity ( PDF )
• with Mechthild Löhr & Julia Schätzle (eds.): Die in Würde. Contributions to the debate on euthanasia. Sinus-Verlag, Krefeld 2006, ISBN 3-88289-809-7
• with Mechthild Löhr & Stephan Baier (eds.): Children: Desire and Reality. Children and families in an aging society. Sinus-Verlag, Krefeld 2006, ISBN 3-88289-810-0
• with Claudia Kaminski & Mechthild Löhr (eds.): There is no good killing. Eight pleadings against euthanasia. Manuscriptum, Waltrop / Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-944872-17-9

items

• Protection of life 1982 to 1998 - a balance. In: Johanna Countess von Westphalen (Hrsg.): Offensive for the right to life. Sinus-Verlag, Krefeld 1999, ISBN 978-3-88289-808-8 , p. 59 ff.
• Legal aspects: Normative bases of PGD, stem cell research and therapeutic cloning - constitutional leeway. In: Hans-Peter Hexemer (Red.) What can and what can humans do? Symposium on current bioethics issues in the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag on October 16, 2001 (= series of publications by the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag. Issue 17). Mainz 2002, p. 60 ff.
• Basic rights only for "persons"? In: Gudrun Lang & Michael Strohmer (Eds.): Europe of Fundamental Rights? Contributions to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2002, ISBN 978-3-932829-61-1 , p. 61 ff.
• The legal regulation of abortion in Germany. In: Dieter & Gisela Koch (ed.): Abortion. Do we determine who can live? (= Idea-Documentation. 6/2003) Christliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Dillenburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-894363-74-1 , p. 65 ff.
• Models for the practical implementation of advance directives. In: Volker Schumpelick & Bernhard Vogel (eds.): Doctor and patient. A changing relationship. Contributions to the symposium from September 15 to 18, 2005 in Cadenabbia. Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-451-23041-7 , p. 466 ff.
• Determining Death: is Brain Death Reliable? In: Roberto de Mattei (ed.): Finis Vitae. Is Brain Death Still Life? Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche / Rubettini Editore, Rome 2006, p. 27 ff.
• The Parliamentary Council and the "budding life". In: The State. 47.4, 2008, pp. 551-572
• To die humanely - but how? For the discussion about euthanasia in Germany. In: Georg Kaster (Ed.): To die - at or through the hand of people? Dialogverlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-937961-99-6 , p. 13 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FAZ : Embryos as a direct mail from September 26, 2004, accessed on August 19, 2010
2. ^ Marion Schmitt: Maria Beckmann trains with father for the New York Marathon

Web links

• Personal page (with detailed bibliography) [1]
• Participation in the New York Marathon 2009 [2]
• Seminar of the Hanns Seidel Foundation : The human being as an experimental field for research , Wildbad Kreuth, June 5 to 7, 2009 [3]
• Interview: Who dies brain death? In: LebensForum 81, pp. 17–18 ( PDF )
• Opinion: Hearing of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment on the topic of "stem cell research" on May 9, 2007 ( PDF )
• Presentation: The embryo and human dignity from a legal point of view , and Presentation: Patient dignity and doctor's duties from a legal point of view . Contributions to: 60 years after the Nuremberg Medical Trial - Consequences for health policy and society? Interdisciplinary conference at the Catholic University of Eichstätt, January 13 - 4, 2006 ( PDF )