Walter Sax

Walter Sax (born April 15, 1912 in Solingen , † October 18, 1993 in Würzburg ) was a German law scholar and university professor.

Life

Walter Sax became a half-orphan early on; his father was killed in France in 1914. Nevertheless, the family was able to enable him to attend high school in Cologne, which he completed with the Abitur. In the summer semester of 1931 he began studying law at the University of Cologne , which he completed in 1934 with the first state examination in law. He earned his second state examination in 1939 after completing his legal clerkship. Meanwhile, Sax had also been working on his dissertation at the University of Cologne under the supervision of Gotthold Bohne , which he obtained in 1938 with a doctorate. iur. completed. From 1940 he worked as an assessor, first at the Cologne District Court , and later at the Regional Court there , before he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in World War II . There he fought mainly on the African front, where he was taken prisoner by the British.

In 1947 Sax returned to Germany and resumed his work as a judge. In 1952 he completed his habilitation in Cologne with a text on the methodology of criminal law and received the venia legendi for the subjects of criminal law and criminal procedure law. In 1955 he left the judiciary for good and became a private lecturer at the University of Cologne. In 1956 he accepted a professorship from the University of Würzburg for criminal law, criminal procedure law and legal philosophy, which he held until his retirement in 1979. Ulrich Weber was his successor .

Works and writings (selection)

Sax's main areas of research were substantive and formal criminal law. The main focus here was, among other things, the teaching of perpetrators and participation, errors in criminal law, the right to abortion and the prohibition of the use of evidence. His contribution Principles of Criminal Justice in the Fundamental Rights Handbook by Karl August Bettermann , Franz Neumann , Hans Carl Nipperdey and Ulrich Scheuner is considered to be one of the most important contributions to the constitutional requirements of criminal procedural law.

• The contractual restrictions on competition in the rights of England and the United States of America . Nolte, Düsseldorf 1938 (dissertation).
• The "ban on analogy" under criminal law: A methodological investigation into the limits of interpretation in current German criminal law . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Heidelberg 1953 (habilitation thesis).
• with Rudolf Hofmann: The ideology perpetrator . Badenia-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1967.

literature

• Ulrich Weber: On the 75th birthday of Walter Sax , in JZ 1987, p. 340 f.
• Rainer Paulus : Obituary Walter Sax , in JZ 1994, p. 354 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paulus, JZ 1994, 355.