Hans Schmitz (legal scholar)

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Hans Schmitz (born February 25, 1897 in Favoriten, Vienna ; † March 20, 1970 ) was an Austrian legal scholar and university professor . From 1963 Schmitz was full professor for labor and social law at the University of Vienna and headed the newly established institute for labor and social law.

Career

Hans Schmitz was the brother of the politician Richard Schmitz . He received his doctorate in law from the University of Vienna in 1922. As early as 1918 he worked as a consultant for social policy at the scientific central office of the Volksbund der Katholiken of Austria . He carried out this activity until 1934. In Austrofascism Schmitz went on career. The Chamber of Labor was occupied by followers of the dictatorship; Schmitz became their first secretary. A little later, in January 1936, he was appointed general secretary of the employee insurance company. The Anschluss in 1938 was followed by his dismissal. While he initially worked in a tax consultancy firm, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940 .

After the end of the war he was entrusted with the task of rebuilding the employee pension insurance scheme. In 1948 he completed his habilitation for social law at the University of Vienna and was involved in setting up the first Austrian professorship for labor and social law.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ deaths. In:  Wiener Salonblatt , January 24, 1937, p. 20 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wsb.
  2. ↑ Nikolaus Hvorka: Hans Schmitz - biography of his life and the legacy of three and a half centuries . In: Theo Mayer-Maly, Albert Novak, Theodor Tomandl (eds.): Festschrift for Hans Schmitz on his 70th birthday . tape 1 . Herold Verlag, Vienna / Munich 1967, p. 9 ff .
  3. ↑ University professor Dr. Hans Schmitz died. In: Soziale Sicherheit , Volume 25, No. 5, p. 154 (online at ANNO).
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Favorites, Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1970