Tímarit lögfræðinga - 01.10.1989, Page 6

Professor Dr. Hans-Heinrich Jescheck,
Freiburg i. Br.:
CRIMINAL POLICY IN A HISTORICAL
AND COMPARATIVE VIEW
Post-war relations in the field of criminal science between Iceland
and the Federal Republic of Germany started with the German trans-
lation of the “Allgemeines Islándisches Strafgesetz”, Law No. 19 of
February 12, 1940, by the late Gústaf Adolf Sveinsson and Mrs. Sigrún
Sveinsson in 1961. They were continued in recent years with two visits
paid by Professor Jonatan Thormundsson at the Max-Planck-Institute
for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg for information
and research. In August 1987 they culminated in the Gennan-Icelandic
Symposium on various problems of criminal law and its history. This
was held under the auspices of the Law Faculty in Reykjavík and
attended by experts from both countries and one from Denmark. The
publication of the materials for this Symposium is in preparation at
the Institute in Freiburg. Looking foi'ward to this event I express my
cordial gratitude to Dean Sigurdur Líndal and the members of his Facul-
ty for giving me the opportunity to deliver today this lecture and in this
way to take a further step in the direction of deepening the relations
between our two countries in the field of criminal law and criminal
policy.
I take particular pleasure to convey to you as President of the Inter-
national Association of Penal Law the greetings of this old and vener-
able scholarly society, the lOOth anniversary of which will be cele-
brated this year in the first week of October at its XlVth International
Congress in Vienna. In addition I should like to express kind regards
from the Max-Planck-Institute in Freiburg and from all its members
who keep in good memory the visits of Professor Thormundsson and
of his family.
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