Richard Albrecht

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Richard Albrecht (n. 1945) is a German scholar, social psychologist and author.

He got his first Ph.D. in cultural studies (Dr.phil., 1976) and his second one in political science (Dr. rer.pol.habil., 1989). Within the last thirty years he published eighteen books, about 750 other pieces, two curricula and a research manual. Richard Albrecht's most impressive scholarly work is his essay The Utopian Paradigm (as published in 1991); his book StaatsRache - Beiträge zur Rechtskultur (2005) argues against any advenge of a state towards citizen(ship) and appeared as the authors first ebook. Richard Albrechts latest book on "Völkermord(en). Genozidpolitik im 20. Jahrhundert" ("Murder/ing People. Genocidal policy within 20th century"; Aachen: Shaker, 2006, 184 p. [ = Berichte aus der Rechtswissenschaft / Allgemeine Rechtswissenschaft]) demonstrates why this German scholarly writer is respected as one of the most profilic authors in the field of current genocidal research under comparative and theoretical aspects.

In the 1980s Richard Albrecht was an independent publisher, scholar and reader at German universities (GH Siegen; WWU Muenster; WH Mannheim). From 1991 to 2003, he contributed to the German quarterly "liberal", from 2001 to 2004 he was an honorary judge and read at Federal University of Applied Sciences on “Social Sciences & Administrative Behaviour”. Since autumn 2002, he is in an honorary capacity the editor-in-chief of the independent online-magazine for Human and Civil Rights in Germany rechtskultur ([link]); as a civil right figure in Germany Albrecht is one of the authors of an "Open Letter" to the President of the Supreme Court in Germany (Federal Constitutional Court of Germany), March 1st, 2004 [link].

Moreover, the author recently published a critical piece on "'Beleidigung' als justitielles Konstrukt von Verfolgerbehörden. Forschungsbericht und Material/ien zum Stand der Dinge in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Anfang 2005" [English summary: "Insult" within Current Germany, 2005. A radical look on a petty crime] [link], arguing that persecuting and accusing in current Germany anybody indeed means a heavy violation of the leading principle of law: "no punishment without law" [sine lege nulla poena] - because "insult" is, until now, not at all defined within the German penal law itself (§ 185 Strafgesetzbuch).

Since October, 2005, Richard Albrecht is retired and lives as a ´senior scholar´ and ´independent egghead´ in Bad Münstereifel, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany.

External links

[Website Richard Albrecht]
[books of the author as reg. within German DDB-catalogue]
[The Utopian Paradigm] abridged version
[StaatsRache - Beiträge zur Rechtskultur] (german / not completely free of charge)
["Open Letter" to the President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany]
[Short piece of Richard Albrechts scholarly writing - on technology]
["Executive summary" of Richard Albrechts scholarly writing - on genocidal policy within 20th century]

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