Axel Azzola

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Axel Azzola (center) together with Günter de Bruyn and Wolfgang Kohlhaase in December 1981 at the Berlin meeting for peacebuilding

Axel Azzola (born March 14, 1937 in Ferdinandsberg , Romania ; † November 6, 2007 in Berlin ; full name: Axel Conrad Christian Azzola ) was a German lawyer .

education

The son of a German mother and an Italian-Bohemian father, Axel Azzola fled with his family from Ferdinandsberg, now Romanian, to Marburg , his mother's hometown, at the age of seven , to avoid persecution and deportation by the Russians. He studied at the city's university and at the University of Heidelberg Law and received his doctorate in 1966 in Marburg on the discussion about the upgrade of the FRG in the House and in the press the UK: November 1949 to July 1952 . He then worked as assistant to Wolfgang Abendroth , with whom he completed his habilitation in 1971 . In the same year he was offered a chair for public law at the TU Darmstadt .

Professional career

As a professor in Darmstadt, he was particularly involved in the field of constitutional law with a focus on social science . Became famous for Azzola when he starting in December 1975 at the Stammheim process as a choice defenders of Ulrike Meinhof occurred. Here he took the position that martial law should be applied to the defendants and that they should therefore be imprisoned as prisoners of war . After Meinhof's death, he gave a speech at the University of Zurich on May 12, 1976, which is partly interpreted as a justification for the violence of the RAF .

In the 1980s he campaigned against the construction of the West Runway . Together with Richard Bäumlin , he published the first two editions of the alternative commentary on the Basic Law in 1984 and 1989 respectively .

Political career

The grave of Axel Azzola in the Jewish cemetery in Aurich

In the 1969 Bundestag elections , Azzola ran for the left-wing Democratic Progress Campaign , which failed because of the 5% hurdle . In 1989 and 1990 he worked as a consultant for the GDR Round Table , where he was involved in drafting a constitution for the GDR. After reunification, he campaigned against the reduction of special pensions for former GDR functionaries.

After Axel Azzola was recognized as a Jew due to his family roots , he became chairman of the newly established arbitration and constitutional court of the Central Council of Jews in Germany in the 1990s . He also took part in the rebuilding of the Jewish community in Oldenburg .

In 1998 he switched from teaching to politics as an SPD member and held the position of State Secretary in the SPD-PDS coalition in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania under Health and Social Affairs Minister Martina Bunge (PDS) . At the same time he gave lectures at the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam. For health reasons he had to give up his post at the end of 2000.

From 2003 to 2004 Azzola was President of the German-Romanian Society Berlin ; for this he was awarded as an officer of the Loyalty Order .

Azzola died on November 6, 2007 in Berlin. As a member of the Jewish community in Oldenburg, he was buried on November 12, 2007 in the old Jewish cemetery in Aurich .

Fonts

  • with Richard Bäumlin (Ed.): Commentary on the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany . Luchterhand, Neuwied 1984, ISBN 3-472-07030-7 .
  • Jewish and other stories from creation to the present . Hora, Hermannstadt 2005, ISBN 973-8226-37-6 .
  • Law, Freedom and Covenant in the Torah. Foundations for a Jewish systematic theology . Frank and Timme, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86596-094-4 (Volume 7 of the series From Religion and Law ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuscript (PDF) on socialhistoryportal.org
  2. ↑ Andreas Tobler: "Enthusiasm" for RAF terrorism In: Tages-Anzeiger . 19th May 2016.
  3. ↑ Azzola, Axel . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Abatz bis Azzola] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 38 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 187 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. An interview with Axel Azzola, the new President of the German-Romanian Society in Berlin. sevenbuerger.de.
personal data
SURNAME Azzola, Axel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Azzola, Axel Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferdinandsberg
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2007
Place of death Berlin