Dr. Enrico Weigelt
Visiting lecturer
Dr. Enrico Weigelt is a Senior Public Prosecutor and Head of Department at the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Kassel, where he currently leads a division of the local prosecutors’ office. Prior to this, he worked for many years as a public prosecutor, handling investigations with a focus on white-collar crime.Since 2022, he has also been appointed as a deputy judge at the Judicial Service Court of the State of Hesse.
He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Georg-August University of Göttingen.
In the summer semester 2026, he is offering a course in sanctions law together with attorney Dr. Jenny Lederer. He had previously taught this course in the summer semester 2025 together with Prof. Alexander Baur and research assistant Christina Rueß.
From 2017 to 2019, he served as a lecturer at the Hessian University of Police and Public Administration at the Kassel campus (now HöMS).
He regularly works as an exam grader at the University of Finance and Administration of Justice in Rotenburg an der Fulda.
He has been affiliated with the Department of Criminology since 2000, initially as a student assistant and later, until September 2007, as a research assistant under Prof. Dr. Dr. Jörg-Martin Jehle. During this time, he was involved in research projects on the avoidance of pre-trial detention through early criminal defense and on recidivism among convicted offenders.
In May 2009, the Faculty of Law of the Georg-August University awarded him the academic degree of Doctor of Laws. His doctoral thesis, entitled “Do Suspended Sentences Prove Effective? An Empirical Study of the Practice and Success of the Suspension of Custodial and Juvenile Sentences on Probation,” was published in 2009 by Göttingen University Press as part of the Göttingen Studies in Criminal Sciences, Volume 6.