Werner Maihofer

Werner Maihofer ( born October 20, 1918 in Konstanz, † October 6, 2009 in Bad Homburg, Germany ) was a German legal scholar, particularly in criminal law and legal philosopher, and politician ( FDP). He was from 1972 to 1974 Federal Minister for Special Tasks and 1974-1978 Federal Minister of the Interior.

Life

In his youth Maihofer was figure skater, 1936, he was a member of the Olympic squad. After leaving school at the former Zeppelin secondary school, today's Constance Alexander -von- Humboldt -Gymnasium, in 1937 he did his work and military service and then took until 1945 as a soldier ( last Lieutenant ) in the Second World War part.

From 1946 to 1950 he completed his studies in law at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg and in 1950 with the work The concept of action in crime system to the Dr. jur. doctorate. In 1953 he habilitated with Scripture and His law, and was appointed professor in 1955 in Saarbrücken.

Maihofer lived in Bad Homburg and later in Überlingen on Lake Constance. He was a music lover and played the violin and viola. He was buried in Frankfurt am Main.

Teaching

From 1955 to 1969 he was a full professor held the Chair of Law and Social Philosophy, Criminal Law and Criminal Law at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken. From 1967 to 1969 he served as rector of the University of Saarland. In 1970 he accepted an appointment at the University of Bielefeld to the Chair of Criminal Law and Sociology of Law, Legal Theory, Law and Social Philosophy. From 1982 to 1988 he was President of the European University Institute in San Domenico di Fiesole (near Florence, Italy). At the University of Konstanz, he had beyond an honorary professorship.

Policy

Since 1969 Maihofer was a member of the FDP. As chairman of the FDP program committee from 1970, he was next to Karl- Hermann Flach and Walter Scheel one of the fathers of Freiburg Theses. From 1970 to 1978 he was also a member of the Board of the FDP. Maihofer was a member of the program committee of the FDP from 1994 to 1996 and coined the Wiesbaden program, the second basic program of the party. From 1972 to 1980 he was a member of the German Bundestag. After the general election in 1972, he was appointed on 15 December 1972 as Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the run by Chancellor Willy Brandt federal government. Following the resignation of Willy Brandt and the appointment of the incumbent office holder Hans -Dietrich Genscher, the German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, he was appointed in now led by Helmut Schmidt Federal Government on 16 May 1974 on the Federal Minister of the Interior. In this role he was involved in the bugging affair grape and other illegal activities of the Federal Constitutional protection. On June 6, 1978, he resigned from his office; while he pointed to his responsibility for a search range in the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer in the so-called German Autumn 1977. He decided not to run again for the Bundestag. In his tenure as minister, he was one of three cabinets ( Brandt II, I and Schmidt Schmidt II).

Awards

Publications

• The Freiburg theses of the Liberals. ( with Karl- Hermann Flach and Walter Scheel ), Rowohlt, Reinbek 1972, ISBN 3-499-11545- X.
• Liberal self-understanding today. In: Politics and Culture. Issue 3/ 1976, p 3 ff, Colloquium Verlag, Berlin, ISSN 0340-5869.