Hans-Heinrich Jescheck
Hans -Heinrich Jescheck ( born January 10, 1915 in Liegnitz, Silesia, † 27 September 2009 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German legal scholar.
Life
His father was a lawyer and notary. In 1924 he came to the grammar school in Legnica. What impressed him a " Hellas - ride " in the Magna Graecia in 1932 under the direction of Wilhelm Dörpfeld. In March 1933, he passed his A-levels. He held the high school speech on the Day of Potsdam. Jescheck studied in Freiburg, Germany, in Munich and Göttingen law. He was a member of the fraternity Franconia Freiburg. He heard Fritz Pringsheim, Erik Wolf and Edward core. At the core, he received his doctorate in 1937 for his first state examination in 1936 on judicial training and his habilitation in 1949 on the International Criminal Law (Liability of the State organs). In November 1937, he was drafted into military service and came to the 18th Infantry Division. Shortly before the end of the service broke from the Second World War. Jescheck was used in Poland, France and the Soviet Union and in 1943 was promoted to captain. In the same year he took the Notassessorprüfung. 1944 came to the Eastern Front and was wounded again. On March 5, 1945, he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Jescheck came in 1945 in French Kriegsgefangengenschaft. In Stock Mulsanne at Le Mans, he taught in the University, among others bearing Carl Hermann Ule. Later he came to St. Denis in a " Centre d' études pour prisonniers de guerre allemandes " where he came with the heads of French society in Contact: Joseph Rovan, André Maurois, Raymond Aron, Emmanuel Mounier, André François- Poncet. June 1947 he was released from the POW shaft. In Freiburg he was hired as a judge at the District Court and assigned to civil and criminal law. It was later High Court Judge. Shortly before the end of the habilitation in 1949 Jescheck was lone widower. In October 1952, he was requested by Walter Strauss seconded to the Federal Ministry of Justice. There he became friends with Edward Turner and Karl Lackner. In Bonn he had married again. In the Bonn period, he participated in the negotiations on the European Defence Community. In 1954 he was appointed to the Grand Criminal Law Commission ( until 1959 ).
In 1954 he took over the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure of the recently deceased Adolf Schönke in Freiburg im Breisgau (up to 1980). At the same chair he was director of the Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, as the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law has been operating since 1966 ( until 1982 ). During his teaching career, he was elected in 1962 to the Dean of the Law and Political Sciences and in 1964 rector of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. Jescheck was also a judge since 1954 in addition to Office at the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe ( until 1975). From 1974 to 1983 he was president of the Society of Comparative Law. From 1979 to 1989 he was President of the Association Internationale de Droit Penal, the Secretary General was in 1950. 1990/91 he held lectures helping out in Greifswald.
In his opinion, " the criminal law ( ... ) without the blind criminology, criminology without criminal law ( ... ) boundless " is.
Jescheck was awarded several honorary doctorates, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (awarded 1984) and the Beccaria Medal. He was co-editor of the journal for the entire criminal jurisprudence.