Christian Hecken, LL.M., LL.M.

Nominated for the Constructive World Award 2025

Public prosecutor in the districts of the public prosecutor's offices in Dortmund and Hagen (2014-2015)

LL.M., "Master of Laws" in Business Criminal Law at the University of Osnabrück (2020)

LL.M., "Magister Legum" in Business Law and Tax Law at the Ruhr University Bochum (2011)

Certificate in Data Protection Law at the Westphalian Wilhelm University of Münster (2019)

Mention by name in the Danish newspapers Ekstra Bladet and Berlingske, as well as in the Spanish-language newspaper El País and in all major German daily newspapers and news magazines

External Independent Commissioner of the Marienhaus Group, Consultant for Victims of Sexualized Violence

Federation of Self-Employed Persons – Federal Association of Medium-Sized Entrepreneurs, North Rhine-Westphalia State Association

Alcohol, cannabis, points – what must a defense lawyer in driving offense law be aware of? (12/2024)

The administrative procedure in public service law (11/2024)

Defense in the execution of sentences (12/2021)

Sexual and relationship offenses (12/2021)

Signatures in criminal proceedings § 136 IV StPO - audiovisual examination (01/2021)

Training excursion to the Federal Constitutional Court and the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe (07/2019)

Lecture event "Constitutional Court in Düsseldorf" with Prof. Dr. Andreas L. Paulus, Justice at the Federal Constitutional Court, at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (07/2017)

Further training event at the Justice Academy in Recklinghausen for public prosecutors in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (10/2014)

Further training events for public prosecutors at the public prosecutor's office in Paderborn, the public prosecutor's office in Hagen and the public prosecutor general's office in Hamm (04/2014)

Complaint of discontinuation: When the public prosecutor closes an investigation -

SWR, SWR - Zur Sache Rheinland-Pfalz, report from April 24, 2025 on the topic of the 2021 flood disaster

Flood disaster 2021 –

Discontinuation of proceedings in the Ahr Valley – press conference

SWR, SWR - Zur Sache Rheinland-Pfalz, program of 09/26/2024 on the topic of the 2021 flood disaster

SWR Aktuell Rhineland-Palatinate, report from September 25, 2024 on the flood disaster on the Ahr.

SAT1, News 5:30 p.m. live, report on the 2021 flood disaster, survivors of the Ahr flood demand new investigations

SWR, The flood disaster on the Ahr - mistakes, consequences and responsibility, program from 09/19/2024

Deutschlandfunk, broadcast on July 12, 2024, Germany today, bereaved relatives in the Ahr valley want new investigations

Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Länderreport, report from 12.07.2024, survivors in the Ahr valley want new investigations

SWR Kultur, program of 01.07.2024, The Flood Disaster in the Ahr Valley - True Crime -, Why is Johanna's death not coming to court?

SAT1, News 5:30 p.m. live, report from May 16, 2024 on the 2021 flood disaster, final report on Ahr Valley investigations will not be published.

SWR, SWR - Zur Sache Rheinland-Pfalz, program of 04/25/2024 on the topic of the 2021 flood disaster

SWR, SWR - Zur Sache Rheinland-Pfalz, program of 04/25/2024 on the topic of the 2021 flood disaster

ARD, ARD-Tagesschau, news, report from 04/18/2024 on the topic of flood disaster 2021

SWR, SWR-Rheinland-Pfalz Aktuell, item from 04/18/2024 on the topic of the 2021 flood disaster

WDR, WDR-Aktuell, program of 04/18/2024 on the topic of the 2021 flood disaster

SAT1, news 17:30 live, report from 04/18/2024, on the flood disaster in 2021

SWR, SWR - Zur Sache Rheinland-Pfalz, program of 04.04.2024, topic: murder and honor killing trials

RTL Nord, news, report from 26.03.2024 on the subject of honor killing on the A7 motorway

ARD, ARD Mittagsmagazin, program of 22/03/2024 on the subject of narcotics criminal law

SWR, SWR -Zur Sache Rheinland-Pfalz, program of 21.03.2024 on the subject of narcotics criminal law

Criticism of the report on the flood disaster in the Ahr valley

disciplinary law

all entries

Criminal liability for falsifying vaccination cards

Criminal liability for falsifying vaccination cards – practical considerations, together with Ref. iur. Hanna Kother and Lawyer Schmuck in NJOZ 2022, 193

Criminal liability for falsifying vaccination cards – practical considerations in: NJOZ 2022, 193ff.

New sanctions in waste and disposal management – criminal and administrative fine risks in the disposal of waste in: NJOZ 2021, 1217 ff. together with Lawyer Schmuck

Is the use of cell phones at the wheel really proven to attract fines?

Is the use of cell phones while driving currently prohibited? On the discussion about the invalidity of § 23 paragraph 1a StVO in: Neue Zeitschrift für Verkehrsrecht, February 2021, 84ff.

Cost implications of appealing against a fine notice based on the (partially) invalid 2020 amendment to the German Road Traffic Regulations (StVO) in: Deutsches Autorecht, January 2021, 47 together with Lawyer Dr. Fromm

AG Wuppertal: Obligation of the treasury to bear the costs of proceedings in the event of the annulment of legally erroneous penalty notices in accordance with the "new" penalty catalogue by the penalty office in: Neue Zeitschrift für Verkehrsrecht, December 2020, 654.

Incorrect calculation of the Corona emergency aid - correct behavior in the event of fraud allegations and repayment requests in: Mittelstand Digital (journal of the BDS Bund der Selbständigen NRW e.V. and the BVMU, Bundesvereinigung mittelständischer Unternehmer e.V.), issue 11-2020, 14

The criminal law assessment of fraudulent secondments in Strafo 2020, 354 together with Lawyers Schmuck and Saager

On the illegality within the threats of punishment in the administrative provisions for the "Federal Regulation on Small Subsidies 2020" – keyword "fact relevant to subsidies"? in NJOZ 23/2020, 673, together with Lawyers Schmuck and Tümmler

The signature in the criminal appeal, NJOZ 2020, 257 together with Lawyer Schmuck

Lecture at the Police University in Rhineland-Palatinate: "Audiovisual interrogations from the defense's perspective" (2020)

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