Lex Heinze

This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (April 2013) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 7,746 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Lex Heinze]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|de|Lex Heinze}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

The Lex Heinze (Latin: Heinze Law) was a controversial law of 1900 amending Germany's Reich Criminal Code, named after the Berlin pimp Heinze, who was accused and convicted of committing "bodily injury resulting in death". It censored the public display of the "immoral" in artworks, literature and theatre and made pimping a criminal offence. After numerous public protests and resistance by several circles within the liberal middle class and the Social Democrats, the Reichstag passed a looser version of the draft law and added a "morality clause" into the Reich Criminal Code as a compromise proposal.

Bibliography[]

• Das Buch von der Lex Heinze. Ein Kulturdokument aus dem Anfange des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Hg. von Otto Falckenberg. L. Staackmann, Leipzig 1900.
• Georg von Vollmar: Für die Freiheit der Kunst! Rede gegen die §§ 184 a und b der sogenannten Lex Heinze, gehalten in der Sitzung des Reichstages vom 15. März 1900. L. Pickelmann, München 1900.
• Hermann Roeren: Die Lex Heinze und ihre Gefahr für Kunst, Litteratur und Sittlichkeit. J. P. Bachem, Köln 1910.
• Peter Mast: Künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Freiheit im Deutschen Reich 1890–1901. Umsturzvorlage und Lex Heinze sowie die Fälle Arons und Spahn im Schnittpunkt der Interessen von Besitzbürgertum, Katholizismus und Staat. 3. Aufl. Schäuble Verlag, Rheinfelden 1994. ISBN 3-87718-018-3

This article about German law is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t