Ferdinand Kadečka

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Ferdinand Kadečka (born in Vienna July 16, 1874; died in Vienna March 14, 1964) was an Austrian penologist.

He was a son of Leopoldine Hák and Ferdinand Kadečka, an insurance officer.[citation needed] In 1912, he married Theodora Ehrenberg; they had a daughter and a son.[citation needed]}

Early life and career[]

At the collegiate Schottengymnasium in Vienna, Kadečka received an education that shaped his life as a humanist. Originally determined to study philology, at his father's request he enrolled at the Faculty of Law in Vienna in 1892, which he left in 1898 as a doctor of law with the intention of doing his habilitation in civil law.

His interest in criminal law was awakened by Alexander Löffler [1]during his judicial preparation time. After four years of work as a public prosecutor, he was appointed to the Ministry of Justice in 1912, in whose criminal justice department he worked for 22 years, most recently as its head.

When, after the collapse of the Austrian monarchy, the resumption of criminal law reform came up for discussion, he advocated cooperation with the German Reich.

In this sense, he submitted a counter-draft of the General Part to the German draft criminal law in 1919 in 1920, which was the start of the joint German-Austrian Draft criminal law of 1927, which fell victim to the political developments of 1933 after several years of parliamentary treatment.

Later career and legacy[]

In addition to working on the great reform, Kadečka understood the main concerns of Franz von Liszt established criminal law school in several amendments and individual laws. When in 1954 the efforts to introduce a new criminal law - which were concluded with the  [de] of January 23, 1974 - began again, Kadečka not only took over the chairmanship of the reform commission, which was retained until 1962, but also presented the drafts of the provisions to be discussed that had been drawn up by him in front. [2]

Kadečka's legislative work is characterized by a clear structure, consistent implementation of the program on which it is based, and language that is easy to understand. The comments he wrote on the Deletion Act of 1918, the Juvenile Court Act of 1928, the Draft Criminal Law of 1927 and the presentation of the press law of 1922 published in 1931 contributed significantly to the rapid integration of the often revolutionary laws into legal practice and are scientifically considerable achievements. The focus of Kadečka's scientific work, which was carried out at the University of Vienna, was the problem of guilt and a reaction to the crime based purely on special prevention. In 1922, he received the license to teach criminal law and criminal procedure law and became a professor in 1934, succeeding  [de]. Starting from a strict determinism, he developed a doctrine of guilt based on the character of the perpetrator as an expression of his dangerousness and a strictly subjective experimental theory, to which he contrasted the allegiance and illegality as purely objective elements of crime. The unwavering consistency with which he championed his theses occasionally exposed him to the risk of becoming unrealistic.

From August 18-24th 1935, he represented Austria at the 11th Conference of the International Penitentiary Commission in Berlin.[3]

Other interests[]

During the 1938-45 period, Kadečka was not inclined to speak freely. As a result, he found consolation in philology, which, despite all his criminal successes (1925 Dr. h. C. Berlin, 1949 Vienna), forever retained the place of honor in his heart.

In 1941-45 he translated the surviving dramas of Aeschylus and Sophocles into German hexameters, followed by Euripides ’Iphigenia in Tauris in 1948.

He later provided unpublished translations of Shakespeare's King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth and Othello. [4]

Publications[]

  •  [de] und gesetzlicher Grundgedanke. ZStW 62 (1942/44), pp. 1–27.
  • Gesamelte Aufsätze, Edited by F. Nowakowski u. Th. Rittler, 1959 (W-Verz.);
  • Autobiogr. in: N. Grass, Österr. Rechts- u. Staatswissenschaftler d. Gegenwart, 1952.[5]

Biography[]

  • R. Graßberger, in: Österr. Jur. Bll., 1954, S. 353 f.;
  • F. Nowakowski, ebd., 1959, S. 368 f., 1964, S. 255 f.;
  • Th. Rittler, in: Österr. Juristen-Ztg., 1964, S. 225 f.

References[]

  1. ^ Löffler, Alexander (1866-1929), Jurist, [1]
  2. ^ Gustav Radbruch, Strafrechtsreform, p. 366
  3. ^ 11th Conference of the International Penitentiary Commission in Berlin August 18, 1935 August 24, 1935, [2][3]
  4. ^  [de] , "Kadecka, Ferdinand" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 10 (1974), S. 721 [Online-Version]; URL: [4]
  5. ^ worldcat.org, [5]
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