Eduard Rabofsky

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Eduard Rabofsky (born August 7, 1911 in Vienna , † June 15, 1994 in Graz ) was an Austrian lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

As a youth, Rabofsky was a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and a functionary for apprentice protection. He completed five years of elementary school and three years of community and advanced training school and expanded his knowledge in adult education courses. There he got to know Marxism and Austromarxism . He learned the trade of car mechanic. Due to the Great Depression , he became unemployed in the 1930s.

As a member of the Friends of Nature , he was drawn to the Alps. "In doing so, he not only became an excellent mountaineer and skier, but also an outstanding expert in mountaineering and a connoisseur of the entire Alpine region." As a member of the Communist Youth Association (KJV), he helped persecuted Germans flee across the Alps to Austria. From 1935 to 1936 he took part in training at the International Lenin School of the Comintern in Moscow . One of his teachers there was the Austrian Arnold Reisberg . Then he returned to illegal work for the banned Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ). In 1941 he was arrested and tortured as a car mechanic in the factory halls of Saurerwerke , where he had prepared acts of sabotage. Because he could not be proven despite torture, he was drafted into the armed forces for military service. His brother Alfred was a paramedic in the large Austrian resistance group "Soldiers Council" and was executed in 1944. At the end of the war, Rabofsky deserted and supported a Soviet unit as a combatant in the Danube translation.

In 1945 he passed the vocational matriculation examination and began studying law at the University of Vienna , followed by a doctorate in 1948. jur. One of his academic teachers was Alfred Verdross . In accordance with his origins in the labor movement, it made sense that he devoted himself primarily to labor law , both in scientific and theoretical terms and politically, e.g. B. through opinions in legislative procedures. "For Rabofsky, Marx's assignment to the lawyer to formulate the demands of the working class became a maxim of his scientific activity." In Marxist legal philosophy, he found suitable contact persons in Wilhelm Raimund Beyer and above all in Hermann Klenner . In 1970 he acquired the degree of Doctor scientiae iuris and the Facultas Docendi at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1976 he was appointed honorary professor for labor and criminal law .

Rabofsky considered it a primary task of a lawyer to deal specifically with social problems. Due to the increased number of victims in the mountains, he gave lectures in Salzburg on accident studies, mountaineering and skiing. With Gerhard Oberkofler he has published many joint legal-historical works since the 1980s, including on the roots of the Nazi justice system, on Hans Kelsen and Heinrich Lammasch . The spectrum of his topics is reflected in the chapters of his commemorative publication: philosophy, social science, politics, labor law, alpine accident studies, criminal law, international law, comparative law.

Works

  • Against the restoration in the right. Essays from four decades. Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85115-139-9 .

literature

  • Johann J. Hagen, Peter Römer , Wolfgang Seiffert (eds.): Law and workers' movement. Festschrift for Eduard Rabofsky. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1976, ISBN 3-7609-0254-5 .
  • Johann J. Hagen, Wolfgang Maßl, Alfred J. Noll , Gerhard Oberkofler (eds.): Querela iuris. Commemorative book for Eduard Rabofsky (1911–1994). Springer, Vienna a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-211-82787-0 .
  • Gerhard Oberkofler (Ed.): Eduard Rabofsky (1911–1994): lawyer of the working class. A political biography. Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7065-1237-8 .
  • Daniela Chmel, Sandra Steiner: Eduard Rabofsky (=  Museumsverein Alsergrund [Hrsg.]: Contributions to the past and present of the IX. District . 38th year, no. 151 ). Vienna 1998 ( online on the museum's website [PFD; 2.6 MB ]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the person is based in part on the contribution On the Person of Eduard Rabofsky, the editor of the Festschrift Jurisprudence and Labor Movement, pp. 8-14.
  2. ↑ Festschrift, p. 8.
  3. ↑ His contribution to the Festschrift, Social and Civil Rights , does not even comprise one and a half pages and should therefore be seen as a gesture of courtesy.
  4. ↑ Festschrift, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Rabofsky, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1994
Place of death Graz