Heinrich Brandweiner
Heinrich Brandweiner (born March 20, 1910 in Vienna ; † April 22, 1997 ) was an Austrian lawyer (church and international law).
Life
Brandweiner joined the Fatherland Front in 1934 and the NSDAP in 1938 ( membership number 6.236.254).
After the Second World War Brandweiner became 1st Chairman of the Austrian Peace Council and a member of the World Peace Council . As an expert in canon law and international law, he had been an associate professor at the University of Graz since 1948 . During the Korean War in the spring of 1952 he toured the country with the “International Association of Democratic Lawyers” and publicly claimed that the US was waging a bacterial war. Therefore, he was referred to by the press as a “plague flea professor” and suspended from university service as a so-called “ companion ”.
In the GDR Brandweiner then worked as a visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin , at the Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg and at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig .
Works (selection)
- The danger of annexation , Vienna, Austrian Peace Council, 1954
- The Austrian State Treaty , Leipzig, Urania-Verl., 1955
- The Paris Treaties , Berlin, Akademie-Verl., 1956
- The Soviet proposal for a peace treaty with Germany , Berlin, Akademie-Verl., 1959
Honors
literature
- Christian Fleck : The Brandweiner case. University in the Cold War ( Memento of October 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (= Biographical Texts on Cultural and Contemporary History, 6; PDF; 1.9 MB) Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-900351-81-3 .
- Olaf Kappelt: Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . Berlin historica, 2009, p. 283, ISBN 978-3939929123
Individual evidence
- ↑ Investigative Committee of Freedom Jurists (ed.): Former National Socialists in Pankow's service , Berlin-Zehlendorf, undated, p. 11.
- ↑ The Nazi key witness to a communist lie . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 1, 1952, p. 2 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ Olaf Kappelt: Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . Berlin historica, 2009, p. 283, ISBN 978-3939929123
- ↑ Fleck 1987, p. 38ff.
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SURNAME | Brandweiner, Heinrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lawyer (church and international law) |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1910 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1997 |