Fritz Schönherr

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Fritz Schönherr (born May 17, 1920 in Vienna ; † May 24, 1984 there ; full name: Friedrich Schönherr ) was an Austrian lawyer, attorney, university professor and interpreter.

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family

Fritz Schönherr was born as the son of Ministerialrat Alois Schönherr and his wife Anna, nee. Hofeneder born. His younger brother Otto Schönherr was editor-in-chief of the Austria Press Agency from 1959 to 1987 . One of his father's cousins ​​was the Tyrolean doctor and playwright Karl Schönherr . Since January 1949 he was married to his former student colleague Ellen Ullrich, with whom he has a daughter.

Education and career

Schönherr passed the Matura examination at the Schottengymnasium in Vienna in 1938 . During the Second World War he was mainly used as an army news interpreter. After studying law, he was in 1947 at the University of Vienna Dr. jur. PhD . He spent the following years as a sworn court interpreter for English and French and as a trainee commentary in the law firm Emmerich Hunna. In 1949 he took over the management of the legal department of Philips Austria GesmbH . After his bar exam, he opened his own law firm in October 1950.  

From the winter semester of 1956/57 onwards, the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Vienna appointed him lecturer for antitrust, trademark, patent and competition law. In 1965 he completed his habilitation with a comparative law study on the subject of "The comparative advertising" at the law faculty of the University of Vienna, with which the venia legendi for the subjects of commercial and bill of exchange law was connected. He was awarded the title of Associate University Professor in 1969. From 1973 he was full university professor and successor to Walther Kastner on the chair for commercial and bill of exchange law at the Institute for commercial and securities law at the University of Vienna.

Even while he was working at Philips Austria, Schönherr looked after private clients with the consent of his employer. These formed the basis of the partnership with old Barfuss, Hellwig Torggler, Christian Hauer and Lothar Witschek, which began in 1967 with a focus on commercial law. After his death, the firm was continued under the name Schönherr Rechtsanwälte .

Thematic focus

The scientific focal points in Schönherr's work were commercial legal protection and intellectual property law . In the last years of his activity he turned increasingly to linguistic problems in the field of law and the design of legal texts. In 1975 the then Austrian federal government appointed him to the commission for the standardization and simplification of the Austrian legal system according to § 3 of the law transition law. In order to be able to work unencumbered in this function, he was released from his academic duties for the entire academic year 1984/85. However, Fritz Schönherr died on May 24, 1984 as a result of a traffic accident he had suffered three days earlier.

Publications (selection)

  • The Cartel Act: including materials, implementing regulations and procedural regulations, as well as the Austrian price regulations, the trademark protection law and the discount law with explanatory notes. Manz, Vienna 1952
  • with Robert Dittrich: The Cartel Act with detailed explanations, including implementing ordinances, decisions and relevant tax regulations; also the price regulations and the discount law with comments. Manz, Vienna 1958
  • The antitrust law in practice . Manz, Vienna 1965
  • Austrian antitrust law. A brief systematic presentation with special consideration of the case law including the text of the law and the relevant ordinances. Hollinek, Vienna 1966.
  • Ombudsman Board: the Federal Act of February 24, 1977 on the Ombudsman Board, l. from the materials, including earlier drafts and explanations, as well as a critical appraisal of the implementation of the ombudsman concept in Austria. Manz, Vienna 1977, ISBN 978-3-214-03460-3
  • with Friedrich Iro: competition law. Law against unfair competition including implementing ordinances, bonus law, discount law, etc. Sale regulation with note u. Decisions. Manz, Vienna 1971, ISBN 978-3-214-01460-5
  • Industrial property rights and copyright: floor plan, general part. Manz, Vienna 1982, ISBN 978-3-214-04854-9
  • with Heinrich Demelius, Gunter Nitsche: Commercial Code of May 10, 1897 (excluding maritime trade law) and the most important commercial law ancillary laws with comments and decisions. Manz'sche publishing and university bookstore, Vienna 1981, ISBN 978-3-214-01111-6
  • GmbHG, the law on limited liability companies in the version valid from 1.1.1981: with the transitional and tax provisions of the 1980 amendment, excerpts from ancillary laws and numerous comments and references. Manz, Vienna 1980, ISBN 978-3-214-02855-8
  • Patent law: the Patent Act 1970 and the Patent Contracts Introductory Act, both in the version of the Paten [t] right amendment 1984, the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Proceedings and the Patent Attorney Act Manz, Vienna 1984, ISBN 978-3-214-03471-9
  • Language and law . Articles and lectures. Edited by Walter Barfuss . Manz, Vienna 1985. ISBN 978-3-214-06108-1

Honors

  • Bene Merito (Austria) Austrian Academy of Sciences 1976
  • Honorary President of the Austrian Association for Commercial Legal Protection

Functions and memberships (selection)

  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Austrian Bar Association
  • Member of the scientific editorial team of the Austrian Journal for Commercial Law (Austrian Journal for Commercial Law, ÖZW )
  • Secretary General of the Austrian Society for Comparative Law
  • Member of the scientific editorial team of the magazine "Der Gesellschafter"
  • Member of the board of the Austrian Lawyers' Association
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
  • Member of the board of trustees and the advisory board of the Max Planck Institute in Munich for foreign and international patent, copyright and competition law
  • Associate member of the Paris
  • Member of the commission for the standardization and simplification of the Austrian legal system
  • Member of the supervisory board of HERBA Apotheker-AG, Österreichische Investment-Gesellschaft mbH, C. Reichert Optische Werke AG, Shell Austria AG, Süd-Ost Treuhand AG

literature

  • Loebenstein / Stein: Fritz Schönherr - In memory, obituary. Österreichische Juristen-Zeitung, 1984. p. 337.
  • Wenger: Fritz Schönherr in memory. Austrian Journal for Business Law, 2/1984
  • Gerhard Frotz: Fritz Schönherr † , Legal Papers 1984, Issue 13/14
  • Almanac of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for 1976

Web links

Remarks

annotation Conceptual is a term in Austria-Hungary for a law firm or a project manager that is out of date

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Schönherr: Commercial legal protection and copyright: floor plan, general part . Manz, Vienna 1982, ISBN 978-3-214-04854-9 ( worldcat.org [accessed July 24, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Schönherr, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönherr, Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, attorney, university professor and interpreter
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1984
Place of death Vienna