Gotthold Bohne (25 July 1890 - 28 August 1957) was a German law professor.

Life

Gotthold Hermann Bohne was born in

Burgstädt Burgstädt () is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated 12 km northwest of Chemnitz. Sons and daughters of the city * Erich Gleixner (1920-1962), footballer * Peter Jahr (born 1959), politician (CDU ...

near

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. He studied at the universities of Greifswald,

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und

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a palette of subjects covering

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and

Jurisprudence Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and they also seek to achieve a deeper understanding of legal reasoning a ...

. His academic progress was interrupted by the

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during which he undertook military service. After the war ended he received his doctorate in

from the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

in 1920. His

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in criminal justice, from the same institution. followed just a year later, clearing the way for an academic career. In 1922 he was working as a probationary judge (''"Gerichtsassessor"'') before accepting an invitation to transfer to the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

in 1923 where he was given a professorship and directorship of the new Institute for Criminal Sciences. Plans existed for the Institute to be expanded to take on all the Criminal Sciences Research in the

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region, and to combine its expanded research role with operation as a police academy. Those expansion plans were thwarted by financial constraints, however. His early published work covered criminal justice in the Italian city states during the later medieval period. He then turned to the relationship between criminal justice and

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. A laboratory was set up and the institute to accommodate what became a major research project. During the winter semester 1926/27 and again during 1934/35 he served as dean of the Jurisprudence Faculty. War and the Nazi dictatorship ended in May 1945 with what remained of Germany divided into four occupation zones.

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

was in the British zone. The military authorities appointed Bohne to a three man constitutional commission relating to the university. The other commission members were Ottmar Bühler and Hans Carl Nipperday. Following the commission recommendations, the

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statutes from 27 May 1919 were now restored. Between 1949 and 1951 Gotthold Bohne served as

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Rector at

in succession to Josef Kroll. He was elected president of the

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based "Centre international d'études sur la fausse monnaie", also becoming vice-president of the Cologne based German Photography Society. The focus of his work continued to be on criminalistics and criminology, taking an increasingly inter-disciplinary approach that combined together ideas from jurisprudence, philosophy, psychology, historiography, sociology and natural sciences. He concerned himself, too, with hereditary aspects. His private interests included music, poetry and visual arts.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bohne, Gotthold People from Burgstädt People from Chemnitz Jurists from Saxony 20th-century jurists Academic staff of the University of Cologne Rectors of the University of Cologne 1890 births 1957 deaths