Richard Sontag

Karl Richard Sontag (born February 6, 1835 in Magdeburg , † March 26, 1910 in Karlsruhe ) was a German legal scholar and professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg .

life and work

Sontag studied law from the winter semester 1855/56 at the University of Berlin . There he was awarded a doctorate in law in 1860 with a thesis on legal history. iur. PhD. He then worked as an auscultator at the Halle District Court before devoting himself to private scientific studies for three years from 1861. The publication The Discharge against Caution in German Criminal Law , which was created at this time, served him as a habilitation thesis. The habilitation took place on February 4, 1865 at the University of Heidelberg . In 1867 he was appointed associate professor there. In the summer semester of 1872, Sontag followed a call from the University of Freiburg to the full professorship for criminal law and criminal procedure law. From 1881 he temporarily served as Vice Rector in Freiburg. Sontag was retired in 1892 because of his “poor health”.

Sontag published a number of writings that were noted in specialist circles, for example on imprisonment or on editorial errors by the legislature.

Fonts (selection)

• The discharge against caution in the German criminal law Heidelberg 1865 (habilitation thesis)
• The fortress detention. A contribution to the history of the German penal system and to the explanation of the Reich criminal law Winter, Heidelberg and Leipzig 1872
• The editorial mistakes of the legislature in the criminal area Wagner, Freiburg i.Br. 1874

literature

• Frank Zeiler: Biographical sketches of the teaching staff of the Freiburg Faculty of Law in the years 1860–1918, 2008, pp. 35–39 ( PDF ).
• Klaus-Peter Schroeder : "A university for and by lawyers" - The Heidelberg Law Faculty in the 19th and 20th centuries . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-12053-6 , p. 209-210 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zeiler, p. 38.