Robert von Hippel

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Robert Wilhelm Ferdinand von Hippel (born July 8, 1866 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † June 16, 1951 in Göttingen ) was a German lawyer and university professor .

origin

Robert von Hippel was the offspring of a respected old East Prussian family of officials and scholars. His parents were Arthur von Hippel (1841-1916) and his wife Olga Magnus (1846-1900).

Life

After graduating from high school, he devoted himself to studying law at the University of Marburg , which he completed in 1888 with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. iur. completed. During his studies in Gießen in 1884 he became a member of the student association Academic Society Das Kloster . As a result, von Hippel was employed as a trainee lawyer in Kirchhain , Marburg and Halle until he was dismissed from the Prussian court service in 1892.

After von Hippel had completed his habilitation in criminal law, criminal procedure and civil procedure at the University of Kiel in 1891 , he filled a lectureship there before accepting an appointment to an extraordinary professorship for the same subjects in Strasbourg in 1892 . In 1895 von Hippel moved to Rostock as a full professor and finally to Göttingen in 1899 , where he also held the rector's office between 1916 and 1917 . In 1935 Robert von Hippel retired .

Robert von Hippel, promoted to the Privy Councilor on March 26, 1914, died at the age of almost 85 in Göttingen.

Robert von Hippel, a student and friend of Franz von Liszt , who was considered one of the most important German criminal lawyers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries , devoted himself in particular to the history and dogmatics of criminal law and promoted its research. He vehemently advocated reforms in the penal system and the treatment of released offenders in order to enable them to better rehabilitate them. From 1911 to 1913 he was a member of the 16-member Criminal Law Commission and played a leading role in reforming the penal code .

family

He married Emma Bremer (1871-1925) in Strasbourg in 1894 , a daughter of the Professor of Law in Strasbourg Peter Bremer († 1916) and Charlotte Erxleben . The couple had three sons and one daughter:

After the death of his first wife in 1927 in Göttingen, he married Johanna von Koenen (1882–1965), a daughter of the Secret Mountain Council and Professor of Geology and Paleontology Adolf von Koenen (1837–1915),

Fonts

  • The proposals for the introduction of conditional condemnation in Germany, Enke, 1890
  • Files on criminal proceedings for teaching purposes, S. Hirzel, 1898
  • Free will and criminal law, I. Guttentag, 1903
  • Crimes and offenses against public order, Liebmann, 1906
  • German Criminal Law, 2 volumes, J. Springer, 1925–1930
  • The emergence of the modern custodial sentence and the educational penal system, Thuringian Prison Society, 1931
  • The German Criminal Trial : Textbook, Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1941

literature

  • Friedrich Ludwig Christian Volbehr, Richard Weyl: Professors and lecturers at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 1665 to 1933: together with information on the lecturers, language course leaders, teachers of the arts and university librarians, as well as on the rectors 1665-1933, page 80 , Issue 3, WG Mühlau, 1934
  • Günter Spendel:  Hippel, Robert von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 201 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Günter Spendel (Author), Arthur Kaufmann (Ed.): Gustav Radbruch Complete Edition. In 20 volumes: Gustav Radbruch Complete Edition: Volume 16: Biographische Schriften, Page 460 ,, Edition 1, CF Müller, 1989 ISBN 3811433873
  • Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, 21st Edition , Volume 12, Page 494, December 2005; ISBN 3765341428

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professor Robert von Hippel has passed away ( Memento from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: www.goettinger-zeitreise.de
  2. ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 22.
  3. ↑ See R. v. Hippel: The " Captain von Köpenick " and the restrictions on the stay of punished people . In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung. Vol. 11 (1906), Vol. 11, pp. 1303/1304 (published online here ).


personal data
SURNAME Hippel, Robert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hippel, Robert Wilhelm Ferdinand von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1951
Place of death Goettingen