Roland Graßberger (lawyer)

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Roland Graßberger (born May 12, 1905 in Vienna ; † August 10, 1991 ibid) was an Austrian lawyer , criminologist and university professor .

Life

Roland Graßberger, son of the hygienist Roland Graßberger senior (1867–1956) and the doctor's daughter Mathilde née Rabl (1870–1938), graduated from high school in the Vienna district of Hernals before studying law at the University of Vienna in 1924 , which he obtained in 1928 with the academic degree of Dr. jur. completed. Roland Graßberger then completed internships at the court, the fire brigade of the city of Vienna and the Vienna Federal Police Directorate .

In 1930 Roland Graßberger took up the position of unpaid assistant at the Institute for Criminology at the University of Vienna, and in the following year he completed his habilitation there as a private lecturer in criminal law and criminology. Equipped with a Rockefeller scholarship , Graßberger completed a police internship in Washington , New York and Chicago in the academic year 1931/1932 .

Graßberger, who was disadvantaged in his academic development by the Nazi regime during the period of National Socialism and the annexation of Austria by the German Reich, was appointed associate professor and head of the Institute for Criminology at the University of Vienna in 1946. Promoted to full professor of criminal law, criminal proceedings and criminology in 1948, Graßberger held the post of Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science in the academic years 1954/1955 and 1960/1961, and in the academic year 1962/1963 that of the Rector of the University of Vienna, In 1975 he retired .

Roland Graßberger, editor of the "Kriminologische Abhandlungen", President of the Society for Criminal Law and Criminology and honorary member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , emerged as an expert on fire crimes.

Graßberger admitted to being "an opponent of homosexuality as a whole" and with his interpretation of the crime statistics he shaped "the image of the homosexual child molester " in Austria by statistically substantiating that the "male homosexual, regardless of age, [...] primarily child and adolescent partners aged 12-19 ”. It was not until 1971 that he made it clear that there was “no significant difference” between homosexuals and heterosexuals in terms of “exposure to paidophiles”. Before joining the Criminal Law Commission in 1957, he advocated compulsory internment in educational institutions and compulsory psychotherapeutic treatment as an expert for young people with a homosexual feeling. The Commission did not agree with this opinion.

Publications (selection)

  • The Arson Crime: An Inquiry into Its Extent, Conditions, and Control; From the University Institute for All Criminal Law and Criminology in Vienna, Springer, Vienna, 1928
  • The sentencing: From the University Institute for the Entire Criminal Law Science and Forensics in Vienna, Springer, Berlin, Vienna, 1932
  • Commercial and professional criminality in the United States of America, Springer, Berlin, Vienna, 1933
  • On the technology of burglary, Reich Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education, Berlin, 1943
  • The solution of criminal policy problems through mechanical statistics, Springer, Vienna, 1946
  • Psychology of Criminal Procedure, Springer, New York, Vienna, 1950
  • Fornication with animals, Springer, New York, Vienna, 1968

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Brunner: Homosexuality and criminal statistics , QWIEN .at, July 27, 2012; Review of Hans-Peter Weingand: Homosexuality and criminal statistics , in: Invertito , 13th year (2011)
  2. ↑ Helmut Graupner: Sexuality, protection of minors and human rights: About the right of children and adolescents to sexual self-determination. Lang Wien 1996, ISBN 3-631-31790-5 , 4.2 Special minimum age for homosexual relationships between men (reference 4 with reference to: ProtStrKomm, 18th meeting in 1957, September 21, 1957, pp. 1385f).
personal data
SURNAME Graßberger, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, criminologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1991
Place of death Vienna