Rudolf Heinze (lawyer, 1825)

Rudolf Heinze (1894)

Karl Friedrich Rudolf Heinze (born April 10, 1825 in Saalfeld , † May 18, 1896 in Heidelberg ) was a German legal scholar , parliamentarian and university professor.

life and work

Heinze, son of pastor and vice-principal Carl Heinze, attended high schools in Naumburg and Meiningen . After graduating from high school, he began studying law at the University of Leipzig in 1844 . After the first state examination in 1847, he entered the ducal-meiningschen judicial service. After the required further state exams, he became a public prosecutor at the Hildburghausen district court in 1853 . In 1856 he came to the senior public prosecutor's office in Dresden and in 1860 became the first public prosecutor at the district court.

In 1865, as the successor to Theodor Marezoll, he accepted a call from the University of Leipzig to the full professorship for criminal law, criminal proceedings and legal philosophy . Between 1866 and 1871 he was elected three times as a representative of the university in the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament, where he participated, among other things, in the abolition of the death penalty and the introduction of jury and lay judges. After increasing personal hostility because of his opposition to interference by Saxon legislation in imperial law, Heinze accepted an offer from Heidelberg University in 1873 to the full chair of procedural law as the successor to Emil Herrmann . In 1883/84 he was Vice Rector of the University of Heidelberg. Heinze worked as a professor in Heidelberg until his death in 1896.

Heinze's research focus was, not least due to his initially practical activity in the judiciary, above all the law of criminal procedure. He paid particular attention to the intersection with state law, i.e. the justification and legitimacy of state interventions in the context of criminal proceedings and, on the other hand, possible criminal offenses of parliamentarians. In Heidelberg, however, his teaching duties included not only criminal and procedural law, but also church law, on which he also published.

Heinze was married to Elise von Zastrow . Richard Loening was his son-in-law and Max Heinze his brother.

Works (selection)

• A German jury . 1865.
• Constitutional and criminal law discussions on the official draft of a penal code for the North German Confederation . Leipzig 1870.
• The relation of the Reich criminal law to the state criminal law with special consideration of the state laws initiated by the North German penal code . Leipzig 1871.
• The impunity of parliamentary violations of the law and the abandonment of the Reich legislation . Stuttgart 1879.

literature

• 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. 255-258 .
• Karl von Lilienthal : Heidelberg professors from the 19th century . C. Winter, Heidelberg 1903, p. 243-251 .
• Udo Pawlischta: Carl Friedrich Rudolf Heinze - life and work of an old liberal criminal law teacher in the 19th century: In memory of the 100th anniversary of his death . Shaker, Aachen 1998, ISBN 978-3-8265-5725-5 (also dissertation University of Heidelberg).

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Heinze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Heinze, Karl Friedrich Rudolf on deutsche-biographie.de
• Heinze at the University of Leipzig