Richard Lange (lawyer)

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Richard Lange (born April 29, 1906 in Wittstock / Dosse ; † September 14, 1995 ) was a German legal scholar and criminologist. He taught criminal law at the universities of Jena , Berlin (FU) and Cologne .

Career

Long was a member of the NSDDB , a division of the NSDAP for academics during the National Socialist era . In 1934 his membership in the NSDAP was approved by the head of the party chancellery ( Martin Bormann ) , despite the admission ban. After the second state examination in 1933, Lange became assistant to Eduard Kohlrausch, a criminal law teacher in Berlin . In 1935 he did his doctorate with Kohlrausch with the thesis "The modern concept of perpetrators". After receiving his doctorate, he was no longer employed in his assistantship. According to Oehler , his dismissal was forced by the National Socialists because of a denunciation. However, in the following years, Lange was hired twice as an assistant assistant for shorter periods of time. In addition, Lange co-authored Kohlrausch's commentary on the criminal code and commented, among other things, on the “Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor” and the Treachery Act, which belong to the Nuremberg race laws .

Long initially worked as a public prosecutor. In 1940 he completed his habilitation at the law faculty in Jena with the thesis "The necessary participation". In 1943 he was appointed full professor in Jena.

Grave (Melaten cemetery)

Even after the war, Lange initially remained a professor in Jena. In 1946 he also became President of the Thuringian State Assembly . He turned down offers to the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Leipzig. In 1949 he moved to the Free University of Berlin, but in 1951 he moved on to the University of Cologne . He taught there until his retirement in 1974.

In 1969 the SDS occupied the criminal science institute Richard Langes at the University of Cologne to force a discussion about its Nazi burden. The rector stood behind Lange and called the police.

Richard Lange was Günter Warda's academic teacher .

His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 39).

Scientific work

The focus of Lange's research was on the dogmatics of criminal law and on criminology. After leaving Jena, he was one of the few West German criminal law teachers who dealt with the law of the GDR.

In his late criminological writings, Lange complained that humans are seen too much as passive objects of natural laws, deep currents or social influences and are consequently “the other”, “the sick” or the “socially deformed”. The exploration of personality is neglected. In this context, Lange suggested to the criminologist to turn to modern anthropology and to find a meaningful center of the discipline with it.

Fonts (selection)

  • The modern term perpetrator and the German draft criminal law . De Gruyter, Berlin; Leipzig 1935.
  • together with Eduard Kohlrausch : Criminal Code with subsidiary laws and explanations. De Gruyter, Berlin 1941, 1944, 1950 + 1956
  • Changes in the criminological foundations of criminal law reform . CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1960.
  • The mystery of crime: what do we know about crime? . Metzner, Frankfurt a. M .; Berlin 1970.
  • Summa criminologica. Selected writings on criminology from the years 1952 to 1991. On the occasion of his 85th birthday on April 29, 1991, newly published in two volumes. by Dieter Meurer . Elwert, Marburg 1991, ISBN 3-7708-0953-X .

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  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 319.
  2. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 193.
  3. ^ Jörg Opitz: The law and economics faculty of the University of Jena and its teaching staff in the "Third Reich" . In: Uwe Hoßfeld, Jürgen John, Oliver Lemuth, Rüdiger Stutz (eds.): "In service to people and fatherland". The Jena University in the Nazi era . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-412-16704-5 , pp. 191–240, here p. 224 f .
  4. ↑ Oehler, NJW 1996, 369
  5. ↑ Anna-Maria von Lösch: The naked spirit. The legal faculty of the Berlin faculty in upheaval in 1933 (contributions to the legal history of the 20th century; 26). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-16-147245-4 , p. 349 f.
  6. ^ Walter Pauly , review of: U. v. Hoßfeld, Uwe, J. John, O. Lemuth, R. Stutz, Fighting Science 2003, ZRG (Germ. Abt.) 122 (2005) online at [1] .
  7. ^ Peter Dohms: The student movement of 1968 at the North Rhine-Westphalian universities . In: History in Cologne . tape 55 , no. 1 , December 1, 2008, ISSN  2198-0667 , p. 205–243, here p. 229 , doi : 10.7788 / gik.2008.55.1.205 .
  8. ↑ Holl, Kurt; Glunz, Claudia: 1968 on the Rhine. Satisfaction and dormant traffic . Schmidt von Schwind, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-932050-11-8 , p. 100 .
  9. ↑ Especially: Richard Lange, Das Rätsel Kriminalität: What do we know about crime? , Frankfurt a. M .; Berlin: Metzner, 1970, p. 340 ff.



personal data
SURNAME Long, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittstock / Drosse
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1995