Franz Matscher

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Franz Matscher (born January 19, 1928 in Merano ) is an Italian - Austrian legal scholar . 1974/75 he was rector of the University of Salzburg and from 1977 to 1998 judge at the European Court of Human Rights .

Life

Matscher grew up in Meran- Obermais under Italian fascism . There he attended the Italian elementary school and in the afternoons a German catacomb school . He then went to Bozen to the Franciscan high school before he emigrated with his family to Graz in 1943 as part of the option . Matscher studied after graduation law at the University of Graz , where he in 1951 to Dr. iur. PhD . In 1953 he received another doctorate in law in Paris .

From 1953 to 1970 he worked in the Austrian Foreign Service , including in the legal department, the political department at headquarters, in the embassies in Paris, Madrid and Bonn, and most recently as consul general in Milan . In 1955 he was involved in the negotiations on the Austrian State Treaty , including translating into French for Leopold Figl and was also present at the presentation of the contract on the balcony of Belvedere Palace .

In 1966 he completed his habilitation at the University of Innsbruck with a thesis on national and international jurisdiction agreements, from 1969 he was professor for civil court proceedings and head of the institute for civil court proceedings and comparative procedural law at the University of Salzburg , where he was dean of the law faculty and in 1971/72 1974/75 served as rector. In 1996 he retired . In his academic work, he dealt with human rights protection, in particular the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as well as national and international civil procedural law and arbitration .

From 1977 to 1998 he was a judge at the European Court of Human Rights , from 1987 to 2003 he was director of the Austrian Institute for Human Rights . From 2001 to 2006 he acted as legal protection officer in the Federal Ministry of the Interior . In 2008 he co-founded the European Journal on Minority Issues .

Awards (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • 1967: Agreements on jurisdiction in Austrian and international civil procedure law , Springer, Vienna 1967
  • 1999: The protection of human rights in Europe , Bachem-Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3-7616-1536-2
  • 2012: International Law and the Dynamics of Human Rights , together with Gerhard Hafner , Kirsten Schmalenbach and Wolfram Karl, Facultas.wuv, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7089-0912-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e UZH - University of Zurich - Honorary doctorate 2011 from the Faculty of Law: Prof. Dr. Franz Matscher . Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  2. ↑ From Obermais out into the wide world . In: Dolomites , January 19, 2018, p. 19
  3. ^ Club Carriere: Univ.-Prof. GDR. Franz Matscher . Accessed on August 30, 2017.
  4. ↑ Die Zeit: Franz Matscher: In times of need, he used lipstick . Article dated May 15, 2015, accessed August 30, 2017.
  5. ^ OeAW: Short biography Franz Matscher . Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  6. ↑ Public Safety: The Interior Ministry's Magazine, No. 3-4 / 2001 . Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b c Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: emer. O. Univ.-Prof. GDR. iur. Dr. hc mult. Franz Matscher . Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  8. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  9. ↑ Academic honors from the University of Innsbruck . Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  10. ^ Felix Ermacora Human Rights Awards 2007 to Gudrun Harrer and Franz Matscher . OTS notification dated October 16, 2007, accessed August 30, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Matscher, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Austrian legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Meran