»Victims ands Institutions in the Special Part of the Criminal Law«: Criminal law reforms with the aim to protect certain professional groups are regularly justified on the basis of »victim protection«. If this concern is investigated, considerable complications arise in criminal law theory. The study elaborates on this using the example of §§ 114 and 188 of the German Criminal Code: Individual victim protection is only relevant in law to the extent that it can be made serviceable for the purposes of the normative order, i.e. the protection of persons and institutions.