Albert Armin Ehrenzweig

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Albert Armin Ehrenzweig (born April 1, 1906 in Herzogenburg , Lower Austria ; † June 4, 1974 in Berkeley , California ) was an Austrian-American legal scholar who, after emigrating to the USA in 1938, became one of the most famous legal scholars in the field of private law and of the United States' inter-local conflict of laws . His textbook Treatise on the Conflict of Laws from 1962 became the standard work.

Life

Albert Armin Ehrenzweig came from a respected Jewish family of lawyers; Father Albert Ehrenzweig (1875–1955) was an important specialist in insurance law , his uncle, Armin Ehrenzweig (1864–1935), was the author of a standard work on Austrian general private law . His grandfather Adolf (Aaron) Ehrenzweig was very important for insurance science by founding the Austrian insurance yearbook in 1880. His brother Anton Ehrenzweig was also a lawyer before the war. After studying in Vienna, Paris and Heidelberg, Albert Ehrenzweig worked for a short time as an intern at the Vienna insurance company Phönix. He then entered the civil service, received his doctorate in 1928 at the University of Vienna , where he also habilitated in civil law in 1937 and was awarded a consultancy certificate.

Ehrenzweig was married and had two daughters. Through his aunt Hilde Grünberg (née Ehrenzweig) he was related by marriage to Carl Grünberg , the first director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, and through his wife Erika (née Kallina), Oskar Werner, the former husband of Elisabeth Kallina.

emigration

The persecution of Jews and political opponents of National Socialism hit lawyers more than many other professional groups, as they were not only exposed to the regime's physical terror, but were also ousted from their professions due to a large number of legal measures. These included the " Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service " and the " Law on Admission to the Bar " of April 7, 1933, which resulted in the withdrawal of court license for many "non-Aryans", followed by a withdrawal of license to practice as of November 30 1938.

In 1938 the avowed Catholic Ehrenzweig, classified as “non-Aryan”, first emigrated to Great Britain , where he obtained another law degree with distinction from the University of Bristol . He came to the USA in 1939 with financial support from the English aid organization " Society for the Protection of Science and Learning ". He received a scholarship from the American Committee for the Guidance of Professional Personnel , founded by Carl Joachim Friedrich and David Riesman , with which he studied at the University of Chicago , among others with Friedrich Kessler , and in 1941 was able to obtain a Doctor of Law degree . His brother Anton Ehrenzweig also fled to England in 1938, where he gave up his former profession as a lawyer. After the war, Anton Ehrenzweig worked as a writer in modern art and music.

In 1948 Ehrenzweig was appointed to the University of California, Berkeley . Together with Stefan Riesenfeld (1908–1999), who had emigrated to the USA in 1935, he expanded his comparative law studies and taught until his death in 1974.

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Ehrenzweig and international private law, p. 169
  2. ↑ Horst Göppinger : Jurists of Jewish descent in the 'Third Reich'. Disenfranchisement and persecution. CH Beck 1990. ISBN 978-3-406-33902-8 .
  3. ^ "Re-Training Refugee Layyers", report of the "American Committee for the Guidance of Professional Personnel" of May 16, 1940, p. 7 f.
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Ehrenzweig, Albert Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzogenburg , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1974
Place of death Berkeley, California