Elisabeth Lovrek

Elisabeth Lovrek (born December 31, 1958 in Vienna ; born Elisabeth Hardegg ) is an Austrian lawyer and judge . She has been President of the Supreme Court since July 1, 2018, and was previously its Vice-President since 2015.

Life

Elisabeth Lovrek was born on New Year's Eve 1958 in the Austrian capital Vienna. There she also attended school and passed the matriculation and diploma examination in 1977. Then they began at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna the Study of Law and in 1981 became the Doctor of Law (Dr. iur.) Graduated . Immediately thereafter, Lovrek began training as a judge and became a candidate for judge.

From 1987, Elisabeth Lovrek was finally appointed as a judge at the Inner City District Court in Vienna. In 1990 she was promoted to judge at the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Law Matters , and eight years later she was appointed to a post at the Vienna Higher Regional Court. In 2003, Lovrek finally became court counselor at the Supreme Court , the Austrian highest court of ordinary jurisdiction .

In 2015 she was appointed Vice President of the Supreme Court by Federal President Heinz Fischer . Until then, it was an “unwritten law” that only Senate presidents of the Supreme Court were appointed vice-presidents of the Supreme Court. In this case, however, Justice Minister Wolfgang Brandstetter and Federal President Fischer decided to give preference to Elisabeth Lovrek, who at that time was only acting as court counselor, i.e. “simple” judge at the Supreme Court. She was thus the first female court adviser to be appointed directly to the position of Vice-President of the Supreme Court without having previously been President of the Senate.

At the end of May 2018 it was announced that Elisabeth Lovrek had applied as the only candidate to succeed the Supreme Court President Eckart Ratz , who will be retiring from office at the end of June . Lovrek was therefore proposed to the Federal President as President of the Supreme Court by Justice Minister Josef Moser . After the appointment by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen , Elisabeth Lovrek became the second female President in the history of the Supreme Court on July 1, 2018. With Brigitte Bierlein at the Constitutional Court and Elisabeth Lovrek at the Supreme Court, women were presiding over two of the three highest courts at the same time for the first time in Austrian history. When asked about this fact in her inaugural interview with the daily Die Presse , she emphasized that she was pleased “with every qualified woman in top positions”, “but just because you are a woman you shouldn't get there”.

Web links

• Elisabeth Lovrek's curriculum vitae on the Supreme Court's website.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Philipp Aichinger and Benedikt Kommenda: Elisabeth Lovrek: Judges as politicians “cannot run away”. In: DiePresse.com . July 2, 2018, accessed July 2, 2018 ( Paywall ). 
2. ↑ Benedikt Kommenda: Unwritten law broken. In: DiePresse.com . November 23, 2014, accessed November 5, 2016 . 
3. ^ Benedikt Kommenda: Elisabeth Lovrek becomes President of the Supreme Court. In: DiePresse.com . May 22, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .