Review

On the basis of German sources fragments of biography and scientific activity of German criminal law scientist Rinehart Maurah is described. Sources that served as the basis for the biography and the process of their searching is described. The author traced the connection of Rinehart Maurah with Simferopol during the period until 1920, and described his scientific views and publications. The article is accompanied by the formulation of the intermediate conclusions about the fate of Rinehart Maurah during 1941-1945 and the need for further research in this direction.

The information in the reference and of the German historiographical sources do not give a complete picture of the life of the Crimean period R. Maurach. For example, it is not clear what specific reasons prompted to leave 18-year-old boy and his parents in the Crimea is in the final year of the Civil War. And still unclear and that, at what time of Maurach family left the Crimea.

Maurach scientific activity has been associated with the work in the field of criminal law dogma, theory of punishment, criminal policy, international criminal law, including the Soviet criminal and constitutional law. Considerable attention is paid Maurach German criminal law (general and special part).

The main scientific teaching was connected with the history of the influence of unlimited state power as a result of the Russian Revolution and the authorities of the Third Reich. The main provisions of his scientific work consists in the implementation of state-legal protection of criminal law and formed the basis of criminal dogmatic position determining penal policy. They are also bound by its ideas about the history of the formation of the practice of criminal law.

Keywords: criminal law; Rinehart Maurah; Simferopol; source; science.