Till Zimmermann

Till Zimmermann (born September 1, 1979 in Bonn ) is a German legal scholar and professor of criminal law and criminal procedure law, including European and international references.

life and work

Till Zimmermann was born on September 1, 1979 in Bonn. He passed his Abitur in 1999 at the Integrated Comprehensive School Bonn-Beuel . From 1999 to 2004 he studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 2004 Zimmermann passed his first state examination in Bonn.

In 2008 he received his doctorate - supported by a doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation - under Professor Urs Kindhäuser in Bonn. Topic of his dissertation: “Rescue killings. Investigations into the criminal law assessment of acts of killing in an emergency ”.

An internship (2007) in The Hague at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia initiated a long-lasting discussion of central questions of international criminal law, which were discussed in the much-discussed study “Faces of Evil. Lexicon of Crimes and Criminals of the 20th Century ”.

Till Zimmermann completed his legal traineeship from 2007 to 2009 in the OLG district of Cologne . a. at the German University for Administrative Sciences Speyer and at the Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden. In 2009 Zimmermann passed his second state examination. He then worked as a temporary academic advisor in the position of a research assistant with Professor Armin Engländer at the University of Passau (2009–2014) and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (2014–2017).

At that time, Zimmermann was involved in the Young Forum for Legal Philosophy (JFR) in the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR) and at the meetings of young criminal law scholars . His range of academic topics covered a wide range: from white collar crime to international criminal law to the role of criminal law in resolving difficult questions in political education.

In February 2017, Till Zimmermann completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a legal theoretical and socio-philosophical thesis on the “injustice of corruption” and then received the qualification to teach criminal law, criminal procedural law, commercial criminal law and international criminal law. In the summer semester Zimmermann accepted a substitute chair at the University of Trier ; Appointed Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, including European and international references, in Trier in July 2018.

Till Zimmermann is a Liaison Lecturer at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . He is married and has three children.

Publications

Monographs

• Rescue kills. Investigations into the criminal law assessment of acts of killing in an emergency . (= Studies on criminal law. 25). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-3775-1 .
• with Nikolas Dörr: Faces of Evil. Lexicon of crimes and criminals of the 20th century. With a foreword by Heribert Prantl . Donat, Bremen 2015, ISBN 978-3-943425-52-9 .
• The injustice of corruption. A criminal theory . (= New writings on criminal law. 14). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-8487-4144-1 .
• with Marie-Lena Marstaller: Non-convicted-based confiscation in Germany? A criminal and constitutional investigation into the legitimacy of the extended independent confiscation according to § 76aIV StGB in conjunction with § 437 StPO . (= German and European criminal procedure law and police law. 7). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-8487-5286-7 .

Article (in selection)

• The “peculiarity of espionage” - or: the law and an ethical paradox. In: Till Zimmermann, Nikolas Dörr (ed.): The intelligence services of the Federal Republic of Germany. Contributions on the occasion of a conference of scholarship holders of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn from 23.-27. January 2007 (= seminar series Bonner Venusberg. 3). wvb, science Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86573-307-8 , pp. 109-145.
• Does the Criminal Code also apply in war? On the relationship between §§ 8–12 VStGB and the special part of the Criminal Code. In: Goltdammer's archive for criminal law. 157.2010, pp. 507-524.
• Board embezzlement through lending - also note on BGH wistra 2010, 21 (WestLB / BoxClever). In: Georg Steinberg u. a. (Ed.): The commercial criminal law of the StGB. Analyzes of the current supreme court case law. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6677-5 , pp. 71-89.
• The election fraud (§§ 107a f. StGB) in the structure of the criminal law protection of popular sovereignty. In: Journal for international criminal law dogmatics. 6. 2011, pp. 982-995.
• The reversal of roles in criminal law. In: Georg Steinberg u. a. (Ed.): Equality and Universality. Conference of the Young Forum for Legal Philosophy (JFR) in the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR) in September 2010 in Halle (Saale) and in February 2011 in Lucerne (= ARSP supplement ), 128.2012, pp. 195–211.
• Corruption and Gubernation. In: Journal for the entire field of criminal law. 124.2012, pp. 1023-1063.
• "Deals" with dictators? On the political negotiability of criminal claims under international law. In: Journal for international criminal law dogmatics. 8. 2013, pp. 102–121.
• The self-talk and the core area of ​​private life - At the same time discussion of the BGH, rulings of August 10, 2005 and December 22, 2011. In: Goltdammer's archive for criminal law. 160.2013, pp. 162-171.
• The new right of preventive detention (without JGG). In: HRRS: Online magazine for highest judicial jurisprudence on criminal law. 14.2013, pp. 164-178.
• Justification or Excuse? The Collision of Positive Duties in German Criminal Law. In: Journal of Criminal Law. 78.2014, pp. 263-276.
• The excess of emergency defense in international criminal law. Dogmatic foundations and the legal situation under the VStGB. In: Journal for international criminal law dogmatics. 10. 2015, pp. 57-66.
• The criminal law fight against corruption in Germany. In: Urs Kramer u. a. (Ed.): 4th German-Czech Legal Festival. September 23-28, 2013 in Passau and Prague. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Praha, 2015, ISBN 978-80-87975-24-4 , pp. 100–110.
• "Good money"? - News on the asset quality of “drug money” and “bribery wages”. In: Goltdammer's archive for criminal law. 164.2014, pp. 544-558.
• Memories of Grandpa Alfons. In: Alfons Fischer (1918–1985). Father and grandfather, colleague and comrade. Bonn, Essen 2018, pp. 23–24.
• The reason for the attempt (§ 22f. StGB). Plea for an expanded theory of danger. In: Legal review. 2018, pp. 23–31.

Web links

• Bibliography by Till Zimmermann until 2017
• Literature by and about Till Zimmermann in the catalog of the German National Library