Friedrich Koja

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Friedrich Koja (born January 19, 1933 in Leoben ; † April 12, 1999 ) was an Austrian lawyer and university professor . Koja was professor of public law at the University of Salzburg from 1968 until his death and was rector of the university from 1971/72 and from 1983 to 1985 .

Career

Friedrich Koja was born on January 19, 1933 in Leoben , Styria . Koja studied law and economics at the University of Innsbruck . First joined the 1955, he studied law with the promotion of Doctor of Laws (Dr. rer oec..) (Dr. iur.) And then in 1956 the economics studies with a doctorate in economics from. In 1956 Friedrich Koja followed his Innsbruck professor, Walter Antoniolli , who had received a call to the University of Vienna , to the Austrian capital, where he became Antoniolli's secretary and secretary at the constitutional court. From 1965 to 1968 he worked at the Constitutional Court as the presidential director and thus the highest non-judicial official at the court.

During his time at the Constitutional Court Koja worked on his habilitation and habilitation finally in 1966 at the University of Vienna , where his teaching license was awarded for constitutional and administrative law and political science. In 1968 Friedrich Koja was offered a full professorship in public law at the University of Salzburg . He was a Salzburg university professor until his death in 1999 and was the elected rector of the university from 1971/72 and from 1983 to 1985. He was also dean of the law faculty at the University of Salzburg in the 1974/75 academic year. On February 12, 1980, Friedrich Koja was appointed as a substitute member of the Constitutional Court by Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger at the suggestion of the Federal Government . From 1990 he was also a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . On April 12, 1999, Friedrich Koja died of a serious illness at the age of 66.

literature

  • Kurt Heller : The Constitutional Court. The development of constitutional jurisdiction in Austria from the beginning to the present . Verlag Österreich , Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7046-5495-3 , chapter short biographies of the members and substitute members of the Constitutional Court 1945-2010 , p. 638 .

Individual evidence

  1. Stenographic minutes of the parliamentary inquiry of the Federal Council on the subject of "Hearing of applicants for the position of a member of the Constitutional Court for whom the Federal Council has the right to propose" from January 14, 1997. Introduction by Friedrich Koja on pages 12 to 13.