Wilfried Küper

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Wilfried Küper (born May 1, 1937 in Brandenburg an der Havel ; † August 10, 2020 ) was a German legal scholar . He was a full professor emeritus for criminal law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Life

Wilfried Küper grew up in Westphalia. After studying law in Münster , Munich , Frankfurt am Main and finally again in Münster, as well as after the two state examinations in law (1961, 1966) and his doctorate (1965), he began his professional career as a research assistant at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Munster. On January 15, 1974, he qualified as a professor for the subjects of criminal law, criminal procedure law and criminal law history with the 850-page publication Studies on the Apologetic Emergency . On March 13, 1976, after a call to the University of Mannheim was rejected , he was appointed full professor to succeed Wilhelm Gallas and Georgios Mangakis at the chair for criminal law, criminal procedural law and legal philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Despite several appointments to other universities, he remained loyal to him until his retirement on October 1, 2005. His successor as professor was Gerhard Dannecker , who moved from Bayreuth to Heidelberg in 2007 .

Küper's works include the textbook Criminal Law Special Part - Definitions with Explanations, which was published in its tenth edition in 2018.

Publications

The Heidelberg University Bibliography, which appears online, contains a complete list of publications.

  • The judge's idea of ​​the code of criminal procedure and its historical basis. de Gruyter, Berlin 1967 (dissertation); Reprint 2012
  • Start of experiment and complicity. v. Decker, Heidelberg / Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-7685-3178-3
  • Basic and borderline questions of the justifying conflict of duties in criminal law. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-428-04363-4
  • The “indebted” justifying emergency. At the same time a contribution to the “actio illicita in causa”. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05280-3
  • (Ed.): Heidelberg teacher of criminal law in the 19th and 20th centuries. v. Decker / Müller, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-8226-1085-2
  • Can the state allow itself to be blackmailed? On the problem of the justifying coercion emergency. Müller, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-8114-9585-2
  • (Ed.): Festschrift for Karl Lackner on his 70th birthday on February 18, 1987. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1987, ISBN 3-11-010461-X
  • (Ed.): Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier. Symposium 1987 in Heidelberg. Lectures and materials. v. Decker et al. Müller, Heidelberg 1988, ISBN 3-8226-2888-3
  • Problems of receiving stolen goods with uncertain involvement in the predicate offense. Election determination, in dubio pro reo, factual alternative, post pending, reduction of facts. v. Decker et al. Müller, Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-8226-3089-6
  • (Ed.): In memoriam Wilhelm Gallas . (1903-1989). Memorial ceremony on November 2, 1990. Decker and Müller, Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 3-8226-0891-2
  • The crime against the soul. Feuerbach and the Kaspar Hauser case in terms of criminal law history. Manutius-Verlag, Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 3-925678-21-2
  • Edited by Paul Johann Anselm Feuerbach : reflections, maxims, experiences. Manutius-Verlag, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-925678-40-9
  • with Jürgen Welp (ed.): Contributions to jurisprudence. Festschrift for Walter Stree and Johannes Wessels on their 70th birthday. Müller, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-8114-0893-3
  • Criminal law. Special part. Definitions with explanations. Müller, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8114-9296-9 ; 10th revised edition ibid., 2018, ISBN 978-3-8114-9418-3
  • Immanuel Kant and the Board of Carnead. The ambiguous emergency law in Kant's legal theory. Müller, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8114-7099-X
  • with Hans Hilger, Claus Roxin and Mark A. Zöller (eds.): Complete criminal law studies in an international dimension. Festschrift for Jürgen Wolter on his 70th birthday on September 7, 2013 (Schriften zum Strafrecht (SR), Volume 250) , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-13841-8 .
  • Criminal law articles on legal history and legal philosophy, ed. by Michael Hettinger and Jan Zopfs, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8114-4643-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the FAZ from August 27, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Küper, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2020