Eckart Ratz

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Eckart Ratz at a lecture in Bregenz (2019)

Eckart Ratz (born June 28, 1953 in Bregenz ) is an Austrian lawyer and politician ( non-party ). From 2012 to 2018 he was President of the Supreme Court and previously its Vice-President from March 2011. From May 22 to June 3, 2019, Ratz was Federal Minister of the Interior in the Federal Government Kurz I and the Temporary Federal Government Löger .

Judicial career

A native of Vorarlberg Eckart Ratz, whose father Gerold Ratz 1963-1973 state governor was in Vorarlberg, received his doctorate in 1978 at the University of Innsbruck for Doctor of Law . In 1980 he took up his first judge's office at the Feldkirch District Court as a judge for civil matters, but only one year later he moved to the Feldkirch District Court , where he was entrusted with criminal matters for the first time after dealing with insolvency matters. In 1994, Eckart Ratz became a judge at the Higher Regional Court of Vienna in the specialist senate for media law and criminal matters.

From January 1, 1997, Ratz worked as a criminal judge at the Supreme Court in Vienna. In 2007 he became president of a criminal senate at the Supreme Court and a year later he became chairman of the specialized senate for financial criminal matters. On March 9, 2011, Eckart Ratz first became one of the two OGH vice-presidents, and on January 1, 2012, he became President of the OGH. His attempt to influence “always the same few judges who constantly attract negative attention” while exhausting the legal possibilities was assessed by the disciplinary senate of the Supreme Court as an interference with judicial independence; The Disciplinary Senate rejected the initiation of a disciplinary investigation against Ratz. On June 30, 2018, Ratz retired at the age of 65 due to reaching the legal age limit for judges.

In the academic environment, Ratz is particularly well-known as co-editor of the Vienna Commentary on Criminal Law. Since 2003, Eckart Ratz has also been authorized to teach criminal law and criminal procedure law as an honorary professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna .

Political activity

On May 22, 2019, Eckart Ratz took over the post of Federal Minister of the Interior for the resigned FPÖ ministers of the Federal Government Kurz I as part of a replacement proposed by Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz as a result of the " Ibiza Affair " . The day after his inauguration, he withdrew the last ordinance of the Interior Minister Herbert Kickl , who had previously been removed from office by the Federal President , according to which asylum seekers received only 1.50 euros an hour for charitable activities instead of three to five euros.

It was planned that Ratz would hold this office until a new government was sworn in after the early National Council election in September 2019 . On May 27, 2019, however, the entire federal government was withdrawn from confidence by a motion of no confidence with the votes of the SPÖ , FPÖ and NOW in the Austrian National Council . Federal President Alexander van der Bellen then removed all members of the federal government from office, but continued to entrust them with the provisional administration. When the new transitional government of Chancellor Brigitte Bierlein took office and handed over to his successor Wolfgang Peschorn on June 3, 2019, Ratz resigned from the office of Interior Minister after 13 days.

Publications

Web links

Commons : Eckart Ratz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Vorarlberger as the new interior minister. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten . May 21, 2019, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Benedikt Kommenda: Political Influence? "Maybe, but I don't know anyone". In: DiePresse.com . April 17, 2011, accessed December 26, 2011 .
  3. ^ Eckart Ratz - A Vorarlberger as OGH President. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). January 29, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Maria Sterkl: New Supreme Court President: Disciplinary ads for incompetent judges. In: The Standard. February 8, 2012, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  5. ^ Ricardo Peyerl: Disciplinary Senate reprimands President of the Supreme Court: "Pressure on judges". In: Courier. March 27, 2014, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Personal presentation on the website of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology of the University of Vienna.
  7. ↑ Interior Minister Ratz reverses Kickl's decisions. In: Wiener Zeitung . May 23, 2019, accessed May 28, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Ratz confirmed as the new Minister of the Interior. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . May 22, 2019, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  9. ^ Federal President: "You can rely on the Federal Constitution" . Speech by the Federal President on May 27, 2019, accessed on May 28, 2019.
  10. ↑ Sworn: Löger now interim chancellor. In: ORF.at . May 28, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Birgit Entner-Gerhold: Eckart Ratz ends his ministerial career after 286 hours in office. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). June 3, 2019, accessed June 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ratz, Eckart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz