Gustav gypsies

Gustav Zigeuner (born January 28, 1886 in Trbovlje , † November 29, 1979 , until 1919 Gypsy von Blumendorf (f) ) was an Austrian lawyer and from 1956 to 1957 President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Austria .

Life

In 1908 he entered the court service. His other positions were: 1909 auscultant , 1912 judge appointment, 1919 district judge, 1924 regional judge, 1928 higher regional judge, 1931 councilor of the higher regional court Graz, 1934–1938 president of the regional court Klagenfurt. During the Nazi era, he was released as "unworthy" in August 1938 and then sent to a concentration camp until November 9, 1940. In 1943 he can be verified as a contract employee of the regional health insurance fund Graz.

After the collapse of the Nazi regime, he played a key role in rebuilding the Austrian judiciary in the district of the Graz Higher Regional Court. From June 24, 1945 he took over provisional management of the Graz Higher Regional Court on behalf of the provisional Governor of Styria Rainhard Machold , and from July 1, 1945 to 1956 he was President of the Graz Higher Regional Court. In an article in Spiegel he was once named as "Gustav the Mighty".

In 1946 he was appointed Vice President of the Constitutional Court newly appointed under the Federal Constitutional Law , and from February 1, 1956 until the end of 1957, he held the position of President of the Austrian Constitutional Court . According to the rules of Art. 147 (6) B-VG, Gypsies would have reached the age limit for members of the Constitutional Court by the end of 1956 (= “December 31 of the year ... in which the member or the substitute member turned seventy has completed ”), but this was exceptionally extended by one year with a separate federal constitutional law ( Federal Law Gazette No. 269/1956 ). The background to this extension was a compromise between the governing parties SPÖ and ÖVP on the successor.

At the University of Graz he was examination commissioner from September 1945 and from October 1948 president of the judicial state examination commission at the law and political science faculty.

He is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .

Awards

• 1917: War Cross for Civil Merit III. class
• 1952: Honorary citizen of the city of Fehring
• 1955: Large gold medal of honor with the star for services to the Republic of Austria
• 1966: Ring of Honor of the City of Graz

literature

• Martin F. Polaschek : On behalf of the Republic of Austria! The People's Courts in Styria 1945 to 1955 (= publications of the Styrian Provincial Archives , Volume 23). Graz 1998. ISBN 3-901938-01-X .
• Helmut Gebhardt: Graz judge in 1938 - Personal "cleansing" and upheavals. In: Historical yearbook of the city of Graz 29/30, 2000, p. 385.
• Gertrude Enderle-Burcel (Ed.): Adolf Schärf. Diary notes from 1955 (= publications of the Austrian Society for Historical Source Studies 1). Studienverlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4546-4 .
• 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Removal of unworthy judges. In:  Neue Freie Presse , August 17, 1938, p. 6 (online at ANNO ). .
2. ↑ Alfred Ableitinger : Politics in Styria. In: Alfred Ableitinger, Dieter A. Binder (ed.): History of the Austrian federal states since 1945: Styria. Böhlau, Vienna 2002, p. 27.
3. ↑ Der Spiegel 25/1970, p. 96
4. ↑ See also Gertrude Enderle-Burcel (Ed.): Adolf Schärf. Diary notes for 1955. p. 304.
5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.6 MB)
6. ↑ Honorary Ring Bearers of the City of Graz. In: graz.at . Retrieved November 10, 2019.