Volker Krey

Volker Krey (born July 9, 1940 in Stade ) is a German legal scholar .

Career

Krey studied in Hamburg , Tübingen and Bonn and received his doctorate in 1969 under Günter Warda at the University of Bochum . In 1972, Krey became an assistant professor at the Free University of Berlin , and in 1974 he became a senior professor and scientific adviser at the University of Bielefeld . In 1975 he was appointed as one of the founding professors of the law faculty at the University of Trier as C4 professor for criminal law, criminal procedural law and methodology of law. From 1978 to 1998 Krey was also a judge at the 1st Criminal Senate of the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz . At the end of the summer semester 2008, Krey retired and was succeeded by Brigitte Kelker . Krey remained active in teaching.

Scientific orientation

Volker Krey deals with all aspects of criminal law and criminal procedure law as well as legal methodology. Questions about the history of criminal law have also kept him busy. His textbooks on the general and special parts of criminal law and criminal procedure law are widely used. There are also English versions of his textbooks on the general part of criminal law and criminal procedure law, which Krey himself translated.

Works (selection)

• On the domestic German law of application of penalties de lege lata and de lege ferenda. At the same time a contribution to the question of the criminal liability of the use of firearms at the zone and sector border, Hamburg 1969 (dissertation).
• Studies on the reservation of the law in criminal law. An introduction to the problem of the prohibition of analogy, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3428039467
• No punishment without a law. Introduction to the history of dogmas of the sentence " nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege ", Berlin 1983, ISBN 3110097508
• Financial crisis and German criminal law, 2009
• Criminal law. Special part (Volume 1 since the 13th edition 2005 together with Manfred Heinrich ; Volume 2 since the 13th edition 2002 continued by Uwe Hellmann )
  • Vol. 1: Non- property offenses , 14th edition 2008, ISBN 9783170206892
  • Vol. 2: Property offenses, 15th edition 2008, ISBN 9783170207479
• German criminal law. General part (since the 4th edition 2011 as a one-volume work continued by Robert Esser )
  • Vol. 1, 3rd edition, 2008, ISBN 9783170204737
  • Vol. 2, 3rd edition, 2008, ISBN 9783170206854
• German criminal law. General part (German and English)
  • Vol. 1, 2002, ISBN 9783170207479
  • Vol. 2, 2003, ISBN 9783170182431
• German Criminal Procedure Law
  • Vol. 1, 2006, ISBN 9783170184084
  • Vol. 2, 2007, ISBN 9783170195134
• German Criminal Procedure Law
  • Vol. 1, 2009, ISBN 9783170184091

literature

• Knut Amelung , Hans-Ludwig Günther , Hans-Heiner Kühne (Eds.): Festschrift for Volker Krey: On his 70th birthday on July 9, 2010. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-17-021511-5 (with list of publications by Volker Krey; foreword (PDF file; 269 kB)).

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Krey in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the professorship of Volker Krey at the University of Trier