Friedrich Forsthuber

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Friedrich Forsthuber, April 15, 2015
Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna, the so-called "Landl"

Friedrich Forsthuber (born September 25, 1963 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lawyer , criminal judge and president of the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna , the largest ordinary court in Austria.

Live and act

Acting as judge and president of the Vienna Regional Criminal Court

After completing his legal studies at the University of Vienna , Friedrich Forsthuber was appointed judge on March 1, 1990 . Initially, he was a judge of the District Court in Döbling , from May 1, 1991 to August 30, 2005, a judge of the District Court for Criminal Matters Vienna (50% presidential judge) and for four years a judge of the Higher Regional Court of Vienna (75% in the Internal Revision Department , 25 % in the criminal senate ).

Since 1991 he has also held the function of media spokesman for the regional court. On January 1, 2010, at the age of 46, he was appointed the youngest president in the history of the Vienna Regional Criminal Court (colloquially known as "Landl"), to which the Vienna Josefstadt Prison is affiliated. The Regional Court of Vienna Criminal with more than 70 judges the most ordinary court of Austria and treated a total of approximately one third of all (national judicial) criminal proceedings in Austria. Friedrich Forsthuber has been chairman of the criminal law section in the Association of Austrian Judges since 2010 .

As a judge, Friedrich Forsthuber is active in jury proceedings and, together with Judge Norbert Gerstberger, who also works at the Regional Court for Criminal Matters in Vienna, chairman of the Austrian Association of Young Judges, is primarily responsible for all decisions made in Austria under the 2011 Repeal and Rehabilitation Act . For example, on October 4, 2013, he made the decision to rehabilitate the Austrian resistance fighter Karl Fischer .

Public relations work as President of the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna

The Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna has an important role in Austria due to its large area of ​​responsibility, which is also reflected in the media coverage. Against this background, Forsthuber conducts intensive public relations work in terms of open and up-to-date reporting.

In order to "relieve the public of fear of contact with the criminal justice system in general and the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna in particular", Forsthuber has organized various exhibitions and series of events in the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna in recent years. A catalog with the same title was published for the exhibition 175 Years of Jurisdiction in Josefstadt , organized by the District Museum in Josefstadt in cooperation with Friedrich Forsthuber and the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna from May 15 to October 26, 2014 .

Friedrich Forsthuber and Detlev Rünger in front of a plaque at the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna, 2015

In cooperation with the Dschungel Wien - Theaterhaus for Young Audiences , Töchter der Kunst / Q-PRO and the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna, the theater group werk89 presented a play in four performances in the large courtroom of the regional court in autumn 2014 in which - based on the resistance group The white rose - the moral courage of a law student is put to the test: Name: Sophie Scholl by Rike Reiniger .

At the end of January 2015, ten time tables were attached to the outer facade of the Vienna Criminal Court, reminding of the eventful history of the “Gray House” and the criminal justice system from 1839 to the present day. They were presented to the public by Justice Minister Wolfgang Brandstetter together with Friedrich Forsthuber and in the presence of Culture Minister Josef Ostermayer . The plaques also commemorate the horrors of the Nazi regime and the abolition of the death penalty in Austria .

On April 15, 1945, a mass shooting took place in Stein prison, killing over 40 people who had been driven to Stein from the death row of the district court prison in Vienna. Nine days after the massacre in Stein prison, the SS shot and killed more than 40 prisoners, mostly political prisoners, who were sentenced to death in the same location. This largely unknown further Nazi judicial crime is documented in the film Die Helden von Stein , which was presented on April 15, 2015, the 70th anniversary of the mass shooting in the Stein penal institution, at the Regional Court for Criminal Matters in front of about 200 spectators on Forsthuber's initiative .

In memory of all victims of the Nazi judiciary, a memorial was erected in front of the Regional Court for Criminal Matters in Vienna on the initiative of President Forsthuber and was ceremoniously unveiled on April 21, 2015.

Friedrich Forsthuber is chairman of the non-profit association Justice History and the Rule of Law , founded on December 22, 2017 and registered since January 18, 2018 , which, according to its association statutes, aims to experience the value of the rule of law as a guarantee for the protected exercise of human and freedom rights and to make the importance of constitutional guarantees and institutions clearly understandable to all age groups and social classes. Other board members of the association are u. a. Brigitte Bierlein , Wolfgang Brandstetter, Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider and Ilse Reiter-Zatloukal .

literature

  • Friedrich Forsthuber: The jury - enrichment or burden of the rule of law . In: Österr. Juristentung (ÖJZ) 2009/108.
  • Friedrich Forsthuber, Erika Pieler: Archaeological protection of cultural assets and criminal law . In: Richterzeitung (RZ) 2013, 130.
  • Friedrich Forsthuber, Ursula Schwarz, Johannes Mahl-Anzinger, Mattias Keuschnigg: The history of the gray house and the Austrian criminal justice system , Ed .: Library Association in the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna, 1st edition (1000 pieces), Vienna 2012, 175 pages.
  • Friedrich Forsthuber: Glossary on the decision of the Supreme Court, May 7, 2009, 13 Os 37 / 09d, "Grundrechtsbeschwerde" . In: Juristische Blätter (JBl) 2010, 259.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Forsthuber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ronald Escher: History of Justice: The Dark Pages , in: Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper , September 21, 2012, p. 23.
  2. ↑ a b Regional court gets new president , article about Friedrich Forsthuber on: orf.at , accessed on January 8, 2014.
  3. ^ The President of the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna in conversation with Daniel Potmesil and Philipp Krasa . In: Flatterblatt , issue 3/13. Ed .: Trainee judges-spokespersons of the Higher Regional Court Vienna, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Richter returns as President , page on www. Republik-online.at ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 27, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ublik-online.at
  5. ↑ Alarm call from the Gray House: Too few judges , page on diepresse.com ( memento from June 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 27, 2014.
  6. ↑ Lack of judges “untenable situation” , page on derstandard.at , accessed on January 27, 2014.
  7. ↑ Specialist groups : website of the Association of Austrian Judges , accessed on January 24, 2019.
  8. ↑ Portrait: Norbert Gerstberger , page on www.altpiaristen.at , accessed on January 29, 2014.
  9. ↑ a b 16-year-olds for murder in court , page on wien.orf.at about current proceedings that are currently being negotiated at the Vienna Regional Criminal Court , accessed on January 29, 2014.
  10. ↑ The judge and his victim. Interview with Dr. Norbert Gerstberger, judge at the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna , page on www.neustart.at , accessed on January 29, 2014.
  11. ↑ Repeal and Rehabilitation Act 2011 in the Federal Legal Information System, accessed on January 8, 2014.
  12. ↑ Repeal and Rehabilitation Act - adopted amendments , page on: www.help.gv.at , accessed on January 8, 2014.
  13. ↑ Maria Sterkl: A tiny reparations, 49 years after the death. The standard of January 3, 2012, accessed on January 8, 2014.
  14. ↑ Harald Walser : A historic step. The standard of January 16, 2012, accessed on January 8, 2014.
  15. ^ National Council rehabilitated victims of Austrofascism. The standard of January 18, 2012, accessed January 8, 2014.
  16. ↑ Bernd Melichar , father, that would be done , Kleine Zeitung of October 26, 2013, p. 20f.
  17. ↑ ORF - Ö1 -Feiertagsjournal, October 26, 2013, 12:00 p.m .: contribution late recognition .
  18. ^ First judicial rehabilitation of the victims of Austrofascism , article on the homepage of Albert Steinhauser , Member of the National Council , accessed on January 8, 2014.
  19. ↑ Different information on the value , page on orf.at about current proceedings that are currently being negotiated at the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna , accessed on January 10, 2014.
  20. ↑ Confidentiality due to "Compliance" , page on orf.at about current proceedings that are currently being negotiated at the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna , accessed on January 10, 2014.
  21. ↑ Ex-ÖBB boss Huber: “I was lucky” , page on diepresse.com about current proceedings that are currently being negotiated at the Vienna Regional Criminal Court , accessed on January 10, 2014.
  22. ↑ a b Friedrich Forsthuber, Ursula Schwarz, Johannes Mahl-Anzinger, Mattias Keuschnigg: The history of the gray house and the Austrian criminal jurisdiction , ed .: Library Association in the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna, Vienna 2012, 175 pages.
  23. ↑ Page about the exhibition: Vorgericht - Cases Reopened: eight cases, eight photos on derStandard.at , accessed on January 8, 2014.
  24. ↑ Exhibition project: Vorgericht - Cases Reopened: eight cases, eight photos by Tal Adler in the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna , article on www.erinnern.at, accessed on January 8, 2014.
  25. ^ The President of the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna in conversation with Daniel Potmesil and Philipp Krasa . In: Flatterblatt , issue 3/13. Ed .: Trainee judge spokespersons of the OLG-Sprengels Wien, p. 8.
  26. ^ Friedrich Forsthuber, foreword to: Friedrich Forsthuber, Ursula Schwarz, Johannes Mahl-Anzinger, Mattias Keuschnigg: The history of the gray house and the Austrian criminal justice system , Ed .: Library Association in the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna, Vienna 2012, p. 17.
  27. ↑ 175 years of jurisdiction in Josefstadt , page of the Josefstadt district museum , accessed on July 16, 2014.
  28. ↑ Event program for the exhibition 175 years of jurisdiction in Josefstadt , accessed on July 16, 2014.
  29. ^ Exhibition: History of the Courts in Vienna-Josefstadt , page on: derstandard.at , accessed on July 16, 2014.
  30. ↑ Every lawyer should have a talent for language , page on: derstandard.at , accessed on October 29, 2014.
  31. ↑ "Graues Haus": panels recall history , page on wien.orf.at of January 27, 2015, accessed on May 6, 2015.
  32. ↑ History including 2 downloads on the history of the Gray House and on chronological tables - History of Justice , website of the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna, accessed on April 29, 2015.
  33. ↑ Catalog: History of the Gray House , The History of the Gray House and Austrian Criminal Justice, pdf, accessed on April 29, 2015.
  34. ↑ The "369 weeks" memorial commemorates victims of the Nazi justice system , derstandard.at of April 21, 2015, accessed on April 29, 2015.
  35. ↑ Memorial for Nazi Victims in front of the Regional Court , wien.orf.at, April 21, 2015, accessed on April 30, 2015.
  36. ↑ Kurt Scholz: Stones are made to talk in the gray house , diepresse.at of April 7, 2015, accessed on April 29, 2015.
  37. ^ Website of the Association for the History of Justice and the Rule of Law , accessed on May 20, 2018.
  38. ^ Information about Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider , website of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance, accessed on May 20, 2018.
  39. ↑ Information about Ilse Reiter-Zatloukal , website of the Institute for Legal and Constitutional History of the University of Vienna, accessed on May 20, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Forsthuber, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and President of the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna