Horst Schüler-Springorum Explained

Horst Schüler-Springorum
Birth Date:15 October 1928
Birth Place:Tehran, Persia (now Iran)
Death Date:5 September 2015
Death Place:Kleinmachnow (Berlin), Germany
Occupation:Professor of Jurisprudence
Parents:Werner Schüler (1894-1966)
Ilse Springorum (1897-1987)
Children:Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Historian)

Horst Schüler-Springorum (15 October 1928 - 5 September 2015) was a German Professor of Jurisprudence. The focus of his work was on Criminal justice.[1]

When he died a tribute in the news magazine Der Spiegel asserted that throughout his [adult] life Horst Schüler-Springorum campaigned for prison reform and for an enlightened and intelligent approach to criminal justice.[2] His best known publication, "Kriminalpolitik für Menschen" ("Criminal Justice Policy for Human Beings") appeared in 1991.[3]

Life

Horst Schüler-Springorum, whose father was a German export trader, was born in a village near Tehran[4] and grew up in Berlin.[5] After the end of the Second World War he studied Political Sciences at Baltimore for a year in 1950/51 before returning to West Germany where he studied Jurisprudence at Frankfurt and Marburg.[5] He received his doctorate in International law from Marburg in 1956.[6] An early post qualification job was as an assistant to Ludwig Erhard, at that time still better known as a celebrity-economist than as a politician.[7] He switched his focus to Criminal justice, and in 1967 received his habilitation (academic qualification) from Hamburg University for work on the legal status of detainees and the prison system in transition.[8] [9] The work, which was supervised by Rudolf Sieverts, was subsequently published as a book, and supported reforms to the German penal system which Schüler-Springorum promoted, with some success, during the next couple of decades.[10]

In 1967 Schüler-Springorum took a professorial post at Göttingen University. By the time he left, in 1971, he was being described as Göttingen's "Prisons expert" ("Strafvollzugs-Experte").[11] 1971 was the year in which he transferred to Hamburg.[5] He moved again in 1975, this time to Munich University where he held the teaching chair in Criminology, Youth Justice and Prison matters ("Kriminologie, Jugendstrafrecht und Strafvollzug").[8] He retired from Munich in 1993,[10] the year of his sixty-fifth birthday, and was succeeded in the professorship by Heinz Schöch.[12] In the summer term of 1996 he took the "Otto von Freising" visiting professorship at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.[13]

In parallel with his work as a law professor, Horst Schüler-Springorum engaged in various activities that promoted more directly the ideas set out in his 1969 book "Strafvollzug im Übergang" ("Prison Policy in Transition"),[9] which gained traction internationally and through which Germany's subsequent Rehabilitation as an objective of imprisonment strategy is anchored. His more recent book, "Kriminalpolitik für Menschen" ("Criminal Justice Policy for Human Beings", 1991),[3] moved forward public discussion of decriminalisation more generally.[4] As a Youth lawyer he became involved with the National Association for Youth Courts and Legal Youth Support ("Deutsche Vereinigung für Jugendgerichte und Jugendgerichtshilfen" / DVJJ),[14] serving between 1962 and 1968 as the Association's chief executive,[15] and then as its Chairman till 1986.[15]

Awards and honours

Family

Horst Schüler-Springorum's maternal great grandfather, Carl Bechstein (1826-1900) achieved eminence as one of Germany's leading piano manufacturers.[16] [17] His daughter, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum,[1] has achieved some eminence on her own account as an historian.[18]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Traueranzeige Horst Schüler-Springorum. Familie Schüler-Springorum. September 2015. 30 December 2015.
  2. Web site: Gestorben: Horst Schüler-Springorum, 86. 19 September 2015. Der Spiegel (online). 30 September 2015. 39/2015.
  3. Book: Kriminalpolitik für Menschen. Horst Schüler-Springorum. 28 July 1991. Suhrkamp Verlag. 978-3-518-11651-7.
  4. [Heribert Prantl]
  5. Book: Nachtrags- und Registerband, Volume 3; Volume 5. Alexander Elster. Heinrich Lingemann. Rudolf Sieverts. Hans Joachim Schrnieder. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & New York. January 1998. 3-11-016171-0. 728. Pioniere der Kriminologie.
  6. Book: Notstand im Völkerrecht . Horst Schüler-Springorum. Marburg, Rechts- u. staatswiss. F., Diss. . 15 March 1956.
  7. Web site: Gestorben ... Prof. Dr. Horst Schüler-Springorum Juristische Fakultät. 40. 04/2015. Münchner UniMagazin. 2015. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
  8. Web site: Horst Schüler-Springorum ist verstorben. based on information supplied by the Kriminologische Gesellschaft. DBH e.V. - Fachverband für Soziale Arbeit, Strafrecht und Kriminalpolitik, Köln. 5 September 2015. 30 December 2015.
  9. Book: Strafvollzug im Übergang : Studien z. Stand d. Vollzugsrechtslehre. Horst Schüler-Springorum . 1969. Habil.-Schrift u.d.T.: Schüler-Springorum, Horst: Die Rechtsstellung des Gefangenen. Hamburg . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen.
  10. Web site: Horst Schüler-Springorum (15.10.1928-5.9.2015) zum Gedenken - Ein persönlicher Nachruf. Kai Ambos, Göttingen. September 2015. 572. Prof. Dr. Andreas Hoyer i.A.Institut für Wirtschafts- und Steuerrecht, einschließlich WirtschaftsstrafrechtChristian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Zeitschrift für Internationale Strafrechtsdogmatik. 30 December 2015.
  11. News: Justiz / Strafvollzug: Ertragen von Kälte. Der Spiegel . 26 April 1971. 30 December 2015.
  12. Web site: Prof. em. Dr. jur. Heinz Schöch: Entpflichteter Professor. Juristische Fakultät der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU). 30 December 2015.
  13. Web site: Otto von Freising-Gastprofessur. Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. 30 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20161001140301/http://www.ku.de/ggf/otto-von-freising-gastprofessur/. 1 October 2016. dead.
  14. Web site: Verantwortung für Jugend. Dr. Nadine Bals i.A. Deutsche Vereinigung für Jugendgerichte und Jugendgerichtshilfen e.V. (DVJJ), Hannover. 7 December 2015. 31 December 2015.
  15. Web site: 8 September 2015. Prof. Dr. Horst Schüler-Springorum verstorben. https://archive.today/20150916180239/http://www.dvjj.de/nachrichten-aktuell/prof-dr-horst-schuelerspringorum-verstorben. dead. 16 September 2015. Dr. Nadine Bals i.A. Deutsche Vereinigung für Jugendgerichte und Jugendgerichtshilfen e.V. (DVJJ), Hannover. 31 December 2015.
  16. Web site: C. Bechstein Modell B-203: Selten schönes Erbstück der Familie Bechstein. ... Dieser besondere C. Bechstein Flügel war in Besitz von Ilse Springorum (1897-1987), geb. Tochter des Fabrikanten Carl Friedrich Bechstein (1860-1931). Nach ihrem Tod übernahm der Urenkel das Instrument.. Michael Thron i.A. Pianovum, Düsseldorf. 31 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092830/http://www.pianovum.de/gespielte_istrumente/c-bechstein-modell-b/. 4 March 2016. dead.
  17. Web site: "... like a sunshine in the darkness": Karl Laabs (1896-1979), ein Judenretter im polnischen Krenau . Reinhold Lütgemeier-Davin. See also footnotes 41, 42 & 71. 283, 284, 289. Verein für hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde Kassel 1834 e.V..
  18. Web site: Schüler-Springorum soll Berliner Institut leiten: Die Historikerin ist als Nachfolgerin von Wolfgang Benz am Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung berufen. 7 October 2010. Martin Krauss. Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland (Jüdische Allgemeine), Berlin. 31 December 2015.

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