Ernst Schönbauer

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Ernst Schönbauer (born December 29, 1885 in Windigsteig , Lower Austria ; † May 3, 1966 in Großdietmanns ) was an Austrian legal scholar and politician ( GDVP / LB ).

Life

Schönbauer, who described himself as a “university professor and farmer”, came from a humble background and was the youngest of 6 children. After elementary school , lower secondary school and upper school , he passed the Matura in 1906 . He then studied classical and German philology at the University of Vienna , moved to the German University in Prague his studies and graduated there with state exams and graduation to Dr. phil. from. He then began to study law in Prague , continued his studies in Vienna and graduated in 1915 with the academic degree of Dr. iur. from. At the same time, Schönbauer was also a student at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna .

From 1915 he took part in the First World War as a volunteer , but because of a heart defect, not at the front, but at the Ministry of National Defense.

On March 4, 1919, Schönbauer became a member of the Constituent National Assembly for the Greater German People's Party, after which he was a member of the National Council from November 10, 1920 to November 20, 1923 without affiliation. Schönbauer also represented the Landbund from January 7, 1924 until his voluntary resignation on October 1, 1930 in the National Council. Within the party, Schönbauer was federal chairman and member of the Nazi party leadership of the German-Austrian Peasant Party and the Land Association for Austria.

1919 habilitation Schönbauer at the University of Berlin , and in 1924 a lecturer and associate professor of Roman Law , Ancient Legal History and Papyrology at the University of Vienna. In 1933 he was a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 1934 he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Law, but this was not confirmed because he refused to join the Fatherland Front .

After the annexation of Austria in 1938, his rejection of the corporate state led to his being appointed as acting dean and accepted into the NSDAP on May 20, 1938 under membership number 6193422 . "Schönbauer was an impeccable National Socialist, as the local group leadership of the NSDAP Schönbrunn on July 2, 1940 and the district leadership VI on October 24, 1940 confirm." He was a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV), the Reichslehrerbund (RLB) and the lawyers' association ( RWB). “Only six days after the 'Anschluss', Ernst Schönbauer was appointed as the new dean of the university, which was now organized according to the leadership principle. Around 50 percent of the teaching staff were dismissed under his leadership because of 'foreign raciality' or 'political unreliability'. ”In the same year Schönbauer was appointed a member of the Academy for German Law . He was formally confirmed as dean in 1939.

After the end of the war, Schönbauer was suspended from teaching in May 1945. On January 30, 1946, he objected to this, but the appeal was unsuccessful, and an application dated July 7, 1948 to the Ministry of Education was just as unsuccessful. On July 20, 1948, Schönbauer was finally relieved of his duties. Ernst Schönbauer published in 1964 in which the New Right attributable Eckart messengers .

literature

  • Dünser, Lukas & Moser Nikolai (2011). “A reflection of a science? The Viennese Juridicum between self-image and memory ”. In: Memorial Service 2.
  • Kalwoda, Johannes (2012). “Ernst Schönbauer (1885–1966). Biography between National Socialism and Viennese faculty tradition ”. In: Contributions to the legal history of Austria 2. pp. 282–316.
  • Mayer-Maly, Theo (1967) “Ernst Schönbauer in memory”. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Romance Studies Department 84. pp. 627–630.
  • Schartner, Irmgard (2011). The constitutional lawyers of the law faculty of the University of Vienna in the 'onslaught' of National Socialism. Breaks and continuities . Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Vienna: Lang. In particular pp. 258-303.
  • Stifter, Christian H. (2014). Between spiritual renewal and restoration. American plans for denazification and democratic reorientation and the post-war reality of Austrian science 1941–1955 . Vienna - Cologne - Weimar: Böhlau, p. 298; 399; 603-604. [1]

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schartner, Irmgard (2011). The constitutional lawyers of the law faculty of the University of Vienna in the 'onslaught' of National Socialism. Breaks and continuities . Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Vienna: Lang. P. 259.
  2. ↑ Schartner, Irmgard (2011). The constitutional lawyers of the law faculty of the University of Vienna in the 'onslaught' of National Socialism. Breaks and continuities . Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Vienna: Lang. P. 261.
  3. ^ Dünser, Lukas & Moser Nikolai (2011). “A reflection of a science? The Viennese Juridicum between self-image and memory ”. In: Memorial Service 2.
  4. ^ Austrian National Library (ed.). "Eckartbote authors".
personal data
SURNAME Schönbauer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian legal scholar and politician (GdP), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Windigsteig
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1966
Place of death Grossdietmanns