Heinrich Brandweiner

Heinrich Brandweiner (center), as a guest at the 7th party conference of the Eastern CDU in Weimar, 1954

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

International Lenin Peace Prize

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.

personal data
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

[1] Investigative Committee of Freedom Jurists (ed.): Former National Socialists in Pankow's service , Berlin-Zehlendorf, undated, p. 11.

[2] 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).

[3] Olaf Kappelt: Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . Berlin historica, 2009, p. 283, ISBN 978-3939929123

[4] Fleck 1987, p. 38ff.