Rudolf Sieverts

Rudolf Sieverts (born November 3, 1903 in Meißen ; † April 28, 1980 in Heidelberg ) was a German legal scholar , criminologist and university professor .

Life

Sieverts studied law at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald , the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and the University of Hamburg . After doing his doctorate and working as an assistant , he completed his habilitation in Hamburg in 1932, where he succeeded Ernst Delaquis in the chair for criminal law , criminology , youth law and welfare as well as comparative law , which he held until his retirement in 1971.

At the time of National Socialism , he was a member of the youth criminal law subcommittee of the Academy for German Law . Sieverts was co-editor of the monthly for criminal psychology and criminal law reform . After applying for membership in 1937, he was accepted into the National Socialist German Workers' Party in March 1940 . He was a member of the senate of the colonial medical academy of the NSDAP . In October 1944 he became HJ Bannführer . In the post-war period Sieverts was interned in the Neuengamme internment camp until 1946 .

Sieverts was later a member of the Specialized Committee for Youth Law, which had a decisive influence on the reform of the Youth Courts Act in 1953. In October 1953 he was the first chairman of the youth court in Munich, in 1959 he became a member of the main committee of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare . He was a member of the higher regional judge at the Hamburg Higher Regional Court . In 1960 he became chairman of the working group for reform of the penal system. In 1964 he spoke out against a general amnesty for violent political criminals of the Third Reich . In 1967 he became chairman of the penal commission of the Federal Ministry of Justice .

From 1961 to 1963 Sieverts was Rector of the University of Hamburg and from 1962 to 1967 President of the West German Rectors' Conference . In 1964 Sieverts was one of the founding members of the first Amnesty International group in Hamburg .

His estate is kept in the Federal Archives.

Fonts

• 1962: Specialized psychological tasks within a modern criminal justice system . In: Günter Blau and Elisabeth Müller-Luckmann (eds.): Judicial psychology: task and position of psychologists in the administration of justice . Neuwied am Rhein, Berlin-Spandau: Luchterhand, pp. 91–98

Web links

• Rudolf Sieverts in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 583f.
2. ↑ See the chronology on the Amnesty International Hamburg website ( Memento from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Bundesarchiv Koblenz, BArch N 1289, contains written material from 1926–1980