Hans Klecatsky

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Hans Richard Klecatsky (born November 6, 1920 in Vienna ; † April 23, 2015 in Innsbruck ) was professor at the chair for public law at the University of Innsbruck and from 1966 to 1970 he was the independent Federal Minister for Justice of the Republic of Austria.

education and profession

Hans Klecatsky was born in Vienna in 1920 as the eldest son of Josef and Maria Klecatsky, née Schartel. He attended four-year elementary school in Vienna-Meidling, and after an entrance exam he went to an eight-year high school, the Traiskirchen Federal Educational Institute, where he graduated from high school in May 1938 .

After the Reich Labor Service in Tannheim (Tyrol) and Saalfelden (Salzburg), he began his law studies at the University of Vienna in the winter semester of 1938/39 , which he was able to successfully complete with a master's degree in September 1940 thanks to the trimester system introduced due to the war. Due to the takeover of the German judicial system after the annexation of Austria , the German referendum examination was also held before the judicial examination office of the Vienna Higher Regional Court on September 28, 1940.

After his studies, Klecatsky was drafted to Prague for military service in the Wehrmacht Air Force (October 1, 1940 to May 8, 1945). At the same time, he was appointed as a trainee lawyer with effect from November 11, 1940 by the President of the Higher Regional Court of Vienna and appointed as assessor with effect from June 17, 1944. After the war he resumed his academic studies and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD.

In the Second Republic he entered the judicial service, joined the constitutional service of the Federal Chancellery as a judge in 1951, and in 1959 as the youngest member of the court at the administrative court and in 1964 as a substitute member of the constitutional court of the Republic of Austria.

After teaching administrative procedural law at the then Vienna University of World Trade in the 1960/61 academic year , Klecatsky completed his habilitation in 1964 at the University of Innsbruck as a lecturer in general political theory, constitutional and administrative law; on January 21, 1965 he became a professor of public law.

From 1966 to 1970 Hans Klecatsky held the position of Federal Minister of Justice (independent). Important laws developed and successes during his term of office were the Organ Liability Act (1967), the Federal Act on the Supreme Court (1968), the abolition of the death penalty, court proceedings and exceptional jurisdiction (1968), the Prison Act (1969), the Probation Assistance Act (1969) and the Criminal Compensation Act (1969). The Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer recognized his work as Federal Minister in 2010 as an important part of safeguarding and shaping the rule of law.

From 1965 until his retirement in 1991, Klecatsky headed the Institute for Public Law and Political Science at the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck . After that, Klecatsky continued to teach and research as a simple professor, especially in the field of human rights, national minority law and European law.

From 1985 to 1989 he headed the pro-North Korean “International Institute of the Juche Idea ” based in Tokyo.

Klecatsky's most important scientific achievement is his legal theoretical penetration of the problem of the so-called private sector administration of the state.

Furthermore, Hans Klecatsky was the founding and honorary chairman of the “European Ombudsman Institute” as well as a founding and honorary member of the Austrian Legal Commission.

Publications

  • Co-editor of the "Juristische Blätter" (1963–2004)
  • Co-editor of the scientific book series "Ethnos"

literature

  • Franz Matscher , Peter Pernthaler , Andreas Raffeiner (Hrsg.): A life for law and justice. Festschrift for Hans R. Klecatsky on his 90th birthday. New Scientific Publishing House, Vienna 2010.
    • In it: Oskar Peterlini : With heart and soul for Austria and South Tyrol. With Klecatsky through experiences and history, law and politics. Pp. 525-549 ( online ).

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ex-Justice Minister Hans Klecatsky has died
  2. ↑ Press release from the Austrian Presidential Chancellery on November 5, 2010
  3. ^ Pan, Christoph, North Korea - The ideological and sociological basis , Vienna: Braumüller Verlag, 1992, p. 125
  4. ↑ Hans Klecatsky in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  5. ↑ Klecatsky in Austrian Law in Self-Representations
personal data
SURNAME Klecatsky, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klecatsky, Hans Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian legal scholar and Minister of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2015
Place of death innsbruck