Clemens Jabloner

Clemens Jabloner (2019)

Clemens Jabloner (born November 28, 1948 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lawyer . He was President of the Austrian Administrative Court and is a university professor for legal theory at the University of Vienna . He was Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria from June 3, 2019 to October 1, 2019 and Federal Minister for Constitution, Reforms, Deregulation and Justice from June 3, 2019 to January 7, 2020 .

Professional background

After studying law at the University of Vienna (doctorate in law in 1972), he was initially a contract employee in the Federal Ministry for Social Administration from 1974 to 1975 and then university assistant at the University of Vienna from 1975 to 1978. From 1978 to 1991 he was a civil servant in the Federal Chancellery (BKA), most recently as head of the Central Personnel Administration section. In 1991 he was appointed Vice President and in 1993 President of the Administrative Court. He held this position until 2013.

In 1988 Jabloner completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna with a thesis on the involvement of the federal government in state legislation; in 1996 he was appointed university professor for Austrian constitutional law at the University of Vienna. Since 2014 he has held the "Hans Kelsen Professorship" at the Institute for Legal Philosophy at the University of Vienna.

Clemens Jabloner (left) at the inauguration with Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen (2019)

On June 3, 2019, he was sworn in as Vice Chancellor and Minister of Justice in the Bierlein Federal Government , a government of experts and civil servants , by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen . After the National Council election in September 2019 , the government was removed from office by the Federal President. At the same time, Jabloner was asked to continue business as Minister of Justice until the inauguration of the next federal government , which took place on January 7, 2020.

Other activities

Clemens Jabloner has been managing director of the Hans Kelsen Institute since 1993 and from 1998 to 2003 he was chairman of the historians' commission of the Republic of Austria on the "asset deprivation" in the territory of the Republic of Austria during the Nazi era. He was also a member of the Austria Convention from 2003 to 2005. Since 2008 he has been chairman of the art restitution advisory board set up at the BKA.

Private

Jabloner is married and has three children.

Awards

• 2000: Large gold medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria
• 2005: Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal
• 2006: Awarded an honorary doctorate in law for his outstanding academic achievements and for the responsible management of his office by the University of Salzburg
• 2009: Great Gold Medal for Services to the State of Vienna
• 2009: Honorary member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2015: Austrian Constitutional Prize

Web links

Commons : Clemens Jabloner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for the Constitution, Reforms, Deregulation and Justice ( Memento from June 3, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) on the BMVRDJ website
• Clemens Jabloner on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• CV on the website of the University of Vienna
• Literature by and about Clemens Jabloner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Clemens Jabloner in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Benedikt Kommenda, Finding the Right in GPS Mode , Die Presse , August 18, 2014
• Clemens Jabloner on meineabektiven.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Dr. Clemens Jabloner - About the person. In: univie.ac.at . Retrieved May 30, 2019.
2. ↑ Why there is no longer a Vice Chancellor. In: derstandard.at . October 7, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019.
3. ↑ Hans Kelsen Institute. In: univie.ac.at . Retrieved March 28, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Art return in Austria. In: bka.gv.at . Retrieved May 30, 2019.
5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
6. ↑ Vienna honors Clemens Jabloner . In: City Hall correspondence of December 16, 2009.