Gustav Walker

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Gustav Walker (* 21st April 1868 in Vienna , † January 1, 1944 ibid ) was an Austrian jurist , university professor and constitutional judges . Walker was professor of civil and civil procedural law at the University of Vienna from 1924 to 1938 , from 1930 to 1934 a member of the Austrian Constitutional Court and from 1934 to 1938 a member of the State Council of the authoritarian federal state of Austria .

Career

Gustav Walker was born in the Austrian capital Vienna as the son of the Protestant factory owner Gustav Walker (senior) and his wife Aloisia (née Schmidt ). He graduated from high school in 1886 and then began studying law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna . In 1892 he was at the University of Vienna to the doctor of law ( Dr. iur. ) Graduated . Two years later, in 1894, Walker took the judge's examination after entering the judicial traineeship. From 1895 he worked in the Ministry of Justice as an employee of Franz Klein , the creator of the newly created code of civil procedure .

1898 habilitation Gustav Walker at the University of Vienna with a postdoctoral thesis on "issues of the international law of civil procedure" and was appointed Lecturer in Civil Procedure doctrine. He subsequently published numerous works on special questions of civil procedural law as well as, among other things, in 1905 a “Outline of Execution Law” , which was intended as a study aid for law students and is considered the first Austrian textbook on execution law. In 1907 Gustav Walker was appointed associate professor for civil procedural law at the University of Innsbruck . Two years later, however, Walker returned to Vienna of his own volition, where he became a regional judge at the regional court for civil law matters and resumed his teaching position at the University of Vienna. At the same time he returned to the Ministry of Justice in its international department.

From 1911 to 1921, Walker headed the international department of the Ministry of Justice and was involved in the peace negotiations in Bucharest in 1918 and in Saint-Germain in 1919 . In 1912 Gustav Walker was awarded the title of full professor for civil procedural law at the University of Vienna, and in 1920 his teaching license was extended to include private international law . Walker resigned from the judiciary in 1922 to become President of the International Court of Accounts set up to fulfill Article 248 of the Saint-Germain Treaty . At the same time he became an Austrian judge at the Austro-English arbitration tribunal, which was also established on the basis of the Treaty of Saint-Germain. In 1924 he continued his academic career with the appointment of a chair at the University of Vienna as a full university professor for civil law (and from 1933 for civil procedure law). In 1926 he was elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , in 1930/31 he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna .

In 1930 Gustav Walker was appointed a member of the Austrian Constitutional Court. Walker was one of those constitutional judges who lost their office with the elimination and ultimately abolition of the VfGH in the course of the introduction of the authoritarian May constitution in 1934. Instead, he was appointed by the Federal President in 1934 to be a member of the State Council of States , an organ that prepared the law, and took over the leadership of the Legal Committee. With the " Anschluss of Austria " to the National Socialist German Reich in 1938, the National Socialists relieved Gustav Walker of all offices and retired him as a university professor without the usual "year of honor".

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Thomas Olechowski :  Walker, Gustav. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 15, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957–2013, p. 455.
  2. ↑ a b c d Heinrich Klang : Gustav Walker . In: Juristische Blätter (JBl) . Volume 68, Issue 13, 1946, p. 275-276 .
  3. ^ Christian Neschwara : The members of the Constitutional Court 1919–1934 . In: Kurt Heller (Ed.): 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 , pp. 601 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Walker, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian legal scholar and constitutional judge
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1944
Place of death Vienna