Ernst Swoboda

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Ernst Swoboda (born June 18, 1879 in Tachau , † April 24, 1950 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and university professor.

Life

Ernst Swoboda was the son of the Reichsrat member and mayor of Tachau Heinrich Swoboda (1837-1910). He finished his school career at a grammar school in Mies with the Abitur. He graduated from 1898 in law at the German Karl Ferdinand University , the University of Innsbruck and the University of Graz , which he graduated in 1902. During his studies in 1897 he became a member of the Cheruskia Graz fraternity and the Albia Prague fraternity (now the Munich fraternity Sudetia). After he was qualified to exercise the office of judge in 1910, he became a district judge. He received his doctorate in 1912 in Graz to Dr. jur. In Graz, where he completed his habilitation in civil law in 1919 , he initially worked as a private lecturer and later as an associate professor. He was also an appellate judge .

In Prague in 1933 he received the chair of civil law at the Karl Ferdinand University. The German nationalist Swoboda joined the SdP in 1935 . At the height of the Sudeten crisis in September 1938 he was a member of the political staff of the commander of the Sudeten German Freikorps Konrad Henlein . According to the Munich Agreement , from October 1938 he chaired the working group for the legal harmonization of the Sudeten German areas . In November 1938 he joined the NSDAP . He was also a member of the SA , where he rose to Sturmbannführer in 1939 . The following year he became a Gaugruppenwalter with the Nazi legal guardian association .

At the beginning of September 1939 he took over the full professorship for civil court proceedings and civil law at the University of Vienna , where he headed the Institute for Legal Unification. From 1941 to 1943 he was first deputy dean of the law faculty and then until 1944 dean. After the end of the Second World War , he was dismissed from university in 1945. Swoboda's work and research focus was, in particular, on the redesign of civil law based on natural law. In this context he dealt in detail with the life and work of the lawyer Franz von Zeiller .

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  1. ↑ Communications of the Sudetendeutsches Archiv , issues 53–57, Sudetendeutsches Archiv , 1979, p. 217
  2. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 494.
personal data
SURNAME Swoboda, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Tachau
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1950
Place of death Vienna