Georg Lelewer

Georg Lelewer (born September 29, 1872 in Vienna , † April 3, 1960 in London ) was an Austrian legal scholar and criminologist who worked as a monarchist exiled politician in Great Britain .

Life

Lelewer, who had worked as a lecturer at the University of Czernowitz from 1907 to 1909 , made it through various professional positions as a military judge and criminal judge to the Senate President of the Supreme Court and was retired in 1937, but still taught as a private lecturer in military criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Vienna . As early as 1927 he had published together with Franz Exner on war crime. After Austria was annexed to the National Socialist German Empire, Lelewer, who converted from the Mosaic faith to Catholicism in 1894, was classified as non- Aryan and banned from teaching. Thanks to the initiative of a British judges committee, he was able to move to London in July 1939, but was unable to build on his academic career there and worked primarily as a politician in exile and became a spokesman for the Legitimists . Lelewer became president of the monarchist Austrian League in Great Britain and, together with Heinrich Allina, head of the Austria Office in London in 1940 , which wanted to unite all exile organizations that pursued Austrian independence as a declared goal.

In 1946 Lelewer returned to Vienna and took part in the reconstruction of the Austrian judiciary.

Web links

Lelewer short biography of the University of Chernivtsi ( Memento from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

Individual evidence

^ Franz Exner: War and Crime in Austria. With an article on the criminality of the military by G. Lelewer , Vienna 1927.
↑ Anna L. Staudacher: "... reports the exit from the Mosaic faith": 18,000 exits from Judaism in Vienna, 1868–1914. Names - Sources - Data , rRankfurt am Main 2009, p. 360.
↑ See Johannes Feichtinger: Science between cultures. Austrian university professors in emigration 1933–1945 , Frankfurt / Main; New York 2001, p. 271.
↑ On Lelewer's exile political activities cf. Peter Schwarz, Austrian political organizations in exile , in: Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration 1933–1945 , 2nd, unchanged. Ed., Darmstadt 2008, pp. 519-543, here p. 532.

personal data
SURNAME	Lelewer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British legal scholar and politician in exile of Austrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH	September 29, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	April 3, 1960
Place of death	London

[1] Franz Exner: War and Crime in Austria. With an article on the criminality of the military by G. Lelewer , Vienna 1927.

[2] Anna L. Staudacher: "... reports the exit from the Mosaic faith": 18,000 exits from Judaism in Vienna, 1868–1914. Names - Sources - Data , rRankfurt am Main 2009, p. 360.

[3] See Johannes Feichtinger: Science between cultures. Austrian university professors in emigration 1933–1945 , Frankfurt / Main; New York 2001, p. 271.

[4] On Lelewer's exile political activities cf. Peter Schwarz, Austrian political organizations in exile , in: Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration 1933–1945 , 2nd, unchanged. Ed., Darmstadt 2008, pp. 519-543, here p. 532.