Thomas Würtenberger (criminologist)

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Thomas Würtenberger (born October 7, 1907 in Zurich ; † November 18, 1989 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German criminal lawyer and criminologist .

Life

Thomas Würtenberger was a son of the painter Ernst Würtenberger (1868–1934) and the older brother of the art historian Franzsepp Würtenberger (1900–1998).

Würtenberger began his academic career in National Socialist Germany in the Baden Ministry of Education as head of department for higher education. He was a member of the SA and from 1937 also a member of the NSDAP . In 1942, Würtenberger became professor of criminal law, criminal procedural law and legal history at the University of Erlangen . In addition, from 1943 he headed the teaching staff and became the National Socialist Lecturer League Leader .

After the Second World War , he became a professor at the University of Mainz in 1946 and in 1955 moved to the University of Freiburg im Breisgau as a professor of criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology and legal philosophy , where he taught until his retirement in 1973. The Freiburg "Institute for Criminology and Prison Studies" , which he had headed since his appointment, was renamed in 1956 at his instigation to "Institute for Criminology and Prison Studies" . The criminologists Günther Kaiser and Stephan Quensel were among his Freiburg assistants . Between 1962 and 1973, Würtenberger chaired the specialist committee for criminal law and the penal system in the Federal Ministry of Justice. Würtenberger had been a member of the Board of Trustees and External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law since 1971. Würtenberger was considered an expert on the offense of art forgery .

Thomas Würtenberger's sons are constitutional lawyer Thomas Würtenberger (* 1943) and the administrative lawyer Julian Würtenberger (* 1957).

literature

  • Heinz Müller-Dietz: Würtenberger, Thomas Emil, teacher of criminal law, legal philosopher and criminologist . In: Fred Ludwig Sepaintner (Hrsg.): Baden-Württembergische Biographien. Volume 6. W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-17-031384-2 , p. 519 ff.
  • Imanuel Baumann: On the trail of crime. A history of criminology and criminal policy in Germany from 1880 to 1980 . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0008-3 , p. 237 ff. (Also dissertation, University of Freiburg / B. 2004).
  • Rüdiger Herren, Diethelm Kienapfel , Heinz Müller-Dietz (eds.): Culture, crime, criminal law. Festschrift for Thomas Würtenberger on his 70th birthday on October 7, 1977 . Duncker & Humblot Publishing House, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-03978-5 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Updated 2nd edition. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 688.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Kaiser: Thomas Würtenberger. 7.10.1907-18.11.1989 . In: Max Planck Society. Reports and communications . No. 4/1990 , p. 120 (The statement in Ernst Klee, Personal Lexikon zum Third Reich, according to which Würtenberger was director of the MPI, is incorrect).
personal data
SURNAME Würtenberger, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, criminologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1989
Place of death Zurich