Prof. Dr. Stefan König
Lawyer and Specialist for Criminal Law
- Born in 1955 in Saarbrücken
- Since 1985 lawyer in Berlin
- Doctorate 1986
- Since 1987 in law firm with Johannes Eisenberg
- Since 2001 Specialist Lawyer for Criminal Law
- From 1990 to 1996 member of the board of the bar association Berlin
- Since 2009 in partnership with Johannes Eisenberg and Dr. Stefanie Schork
- From 1996 to 2002 member of the board of the Vereinigung Berliner Strafverteidiger (editor of the legal database of strafverteidiger-berlin.de)
- From January 2003 to January 2006 1st Chairman of the Vereinigung Berliner Strafverteidiger
- Since 1995 Member of the Criminal Law Committee of the German Bar Association
- From January 2006 to December 2016 Chairman of the Criminal Law Committee of the German Bar Association
- Since 2009 member of the committee danger prevention of the German lawyer association
- In addition, founding member of the Human Rights Committee of the German Bar Association
- Since February 2015 honorary professor at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- According to Focus-Spezial "Lawyers 2016", lawyer Prof. Dr. König of "Germany's top lawyers" in the field of criminal law
Practice Areas
- Criminal defense, including in tax criminal matters
- Copyright and media law
- Lawyer Prof. Dr. König was heard in various legislative processes of the Federal and individual countries as an expert by the Committee on Internal Affairs and by the Legal Committee of the German Bundestag (on the so-called Anti-Terror Laws, the Leniency Notice, the Understanding in Criminal Matters, the Reform of Remand Punishment and the Reform of the Restart in Criminal Procedure) and by the Legal Committee of the Sächsichen Landtag (to the remand detention law) and by the House of Representatives of Berlin (to the remand detention law)
Awards and special tasks
- 1987 Ernst Reuter Prize of the Free University Berlin
- 2003 Max Alsberg Prize of the German defense lawyers
Prof. Dr. König is co-author of the Commentary on Entire Criminal Law and co-editor of the handbook "International Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters" (1st edition 2014), both published by Nomos-Verlag, co-author of the Munich Handbook on Criminal Defense and the Handbook on Criminal Proceedings. Publishing company. Prof. Dr. König is editor of the "Anwaltkommentar Untersuchungshaft", published in Deutscher Anwaltsverlag (1st edition 2012), co-publisher and author of the hand commentary on the entire criminal law (Dölling / Duttge / König / Rössner, 4th edition 2017) and co-publisher of the handbook "International Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters "(1st edition 2014), co-author of the commentary by Meier-Ladewig / Nettesheim / von Raumer, all published by Nomos-Verlag, co-author of the Munich Handbook on Criminal Defense and the Handbook on Criminal Proceedings, both published in the Beck -Publishing company. He is the author of a variety of articles on questions of criminal and criminal procedure law, the lawyers profession and on legal-historical topics.
Since May 2014 Prof. Dr. König Member of the "Expert Group for the Revision of Homicides" set up by the Federal Ministry of Justice, which presented a report in mid-2015 with recommendations for a reform of the homicides in the Criminal Code.
Since July 2014 Prof. Dr. König is also a member of the expert commission of the Federal Ministry of Justice for the reform of criminal proceedings.