Horst Schüler-Springorum
German legal scholar (1928-2015)
Horst Schüler-Springorum (15 October 1928 - 5 September 2015) was a German professor of jurisprudence. The focus of his work was on criminal justice.
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. His best known publication, "Kriminalpolitik für Menschen" ("Criminal Justice Policy for Human Beings") appeared in 1991.
Life
Horst Schüler-Springorum, whose father was a German export trader, was born in a village near Tehran and grew up in Berlin. 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. He received his doctorate in International law from Marburg in 1956. 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. 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. 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.
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