Karl Engisch

Karl Engisch
Portrait 1968
Born15 March 1899
Died11 September 1990
Alma materGießen
Munich
Heidelberg
Occupation(s)lawyer
jurist
legal philosopher
Political partyNSDAP
SpouseThekla Schudt (1900–1973)
ChildrenIrmgard
Renate
Parent(s)Friedrich Engisch (1871–1943)
Dora Urich (1876–1928)

Karl Engisch (15 March 1899 – 11 September 1990) was a German jurist and a Philosopher of Law. He was described by Hans Joachim Hirsch as one of the "outstanding theorists of criminal justice of the [twentieth] century" ("herausragenden Strafrechtstheoretiker des vergangenen Jahrhunderts").