Theodor Lenckner

Theodor Lenckner (born July 14, 1928 in Schwäbisch Hall ; † November 5, 2006 in Tübingen ) was a criminal law scholar at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

Life

Lenckner, who grew up as a pastor's son in Hohenlohischen and Brenztal, began studying law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen in the winter semester of 1948/49 , which he completed in autumn 1952 with a brilliant first state examination in law. Lenckner passed the assessor exam in Stuttgart in the spring of 1957 . He received his doctorate in 1957 with a dissertation on litigation fraud , supervised by Wilhelm Gallas . With the criminal law scholar Horst Schröder he qualified as a professor at his chair in Tübingen in 1963 with the text “Der justifying emergency” and received the venia legendi for criminal law and procedural law. In 1964 he became a professor in Münster, and in 1972 he returned to the University of Tübingen , to which he remained until his retirement in 1996. During this time he was also involved in various ways for the needs of disabled people and was a member of the board of the " Physically Disabled Support Neckar-Alb eV (KBF) " as well as a founding member and chairman of the association "Help for the disabled" in Mössingen . In 1999 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class, for his scientific merits and his commitment to the care of the disabled . He had been a member of the Roigel Royal Society of Tübingen since his studies .

Scientific work

Lenckner was an important dogmatist of German criminal law; With his teachings, he has influenced federal German criminal justice and criminal law studies in equal measure. His name is particularly closely linked to the commentary on the penal code in the criminal law commentary "Schönke / Schröder". After the death of Horst Schröder, Lenckner continued his commentary together with three other students ( Peter Cramer , Albin Eser and Walter Stree ) of his teacher, from the 18th edition (1975) to the 27th edition (2006). In addition, be basic of him and pioneering, internationally acclaimed work on the topics of culpability , officials term , self-defense , meaning and purpose of punishment as well as to problems of economic criminal law (Lenckner is the inventor of the famous "Bearing Theory" at the Triangle fraud ), Computer criminal law and sexual offenses against . Lenckner was also active in criminal policy as a member of the group of professors who, with alternative drafts in the 1960s and 1970s, endeavored to achieve progressive reform of criminal and criminal procedural law, with Lenckner having a formative influence in the area of abortion . On his 70th birthday, Theodor Lenckner was honored by students and colleagues with a festschrift (Munich 1998).

Fonts

• The trial fraud. Dissertation. University of Tübingen 1957.
• The justifying emergency. Tübingen 1965.
• Punishment, guilt and culpability. In: Göppinger, Witter (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Forensischen Psychiatrie. Volume 1. Berlin 1972, p. 3.
• Cybercrime and property crime. Heidelberg 1981.
• Schönke-Schröder. Commentary on the Criminal Code. 18th edition reworked by Theodor Lenckner, Peter Cramer , Albin Eser , Walter Stree , Munich 1976 up to 27th edition edited by Theodor Lenckner, Albin Eser, Walter Stree, Jörg Eisele , Günter Heine , Walter Perron and Detlev Sternberg-Lieben with the assistance of Ulrike Schittenhelm , Munich 2006.

In addition to these monographs, Lenckner has published a large number of essays and comments on judgments. A complete list of the writings by Lenckner published up to 1998 can be found in: Eser / Schittenhelm / Schumann (ed.), Festschrift für Theodor Lenckner, Munich 1998, pp. 871–874.

Appreciations

• Ulrich Weber, Impulses for the reform of criminal law. On the retirement of the code commentator Prof. Dr. Theodor Lenckner. Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated October 4, 1996
• Peter Cramer , Theodor Lenckner on his 70th birthday, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 1988, p. 2104
• Heribert Schumann , Theodor Lenckner on his 70th birthday, Juristentung 1998, p. 720
• Fritjof Haft , Theodor Lenckner on his 75th birthday, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 2003, p. 2076
• Joachim Vogel , obituary for Theodor Lenckner, Juristentung 2006, p. 1167
• Jörg Eisele , Theodor Lenckner †, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 2007, p. 38
• Ulrich Weber, Lenckner, Theodor, in: Baden-Württembergische Biographien. Volume IV. Ed. By Fred Ludwig Sepaintner, Stuttgart 2007, pp. 205-207.
• Edward Schramm , Memories of Theodor Lenckner, in: Eric Hilgendorf (Ed.), The German-language criminal law science in self-portrayals. Berlin, New York 2010, pp. 661–690.

Web links

• Literature by and about Theodor Lenckner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Association help for the disabled