Heinz Schäffer

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Heinz Schäffer (born April 25, 1941 in Vienna ; † December 1, 2008 ) was an Austrian legal scholar , university professor and judge . From 1976 onwards, Schäffer was Professor of Public Law with special emphasis on commercial administrative law at the University of Salzburg .

education

Heinz Schäffer was born in Vienna in 1941 and also attended school there. He graduated from the Bundesrealgymnasium III in 1959. In the following winter semester, he began studying law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna . On March 20, 1964 at the Schaffer was Vienna University of Doctor of Law (Dr. iur.) Ph.D.and then also completed the political science studies at the University of Vienna. During his studies, he was employed as a research assistant from June 1963 and as a university assistant from November 1963, first at the Institute for Civil Court Proceedings and then at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law. In the summer of 1964, Schäffer completed his legal practice at the Lienz District Court .

Professional background

From 1963 to 1965, Heinz Schäffer was a member and managing director of the study grant commissions at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna, and from 1966 he held lectureships for general state theory, Austrian constitutional law, and general and special administrative law. From December 1968 to December 1969 he was a research fellow from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute for Public Law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Finally, on June 20, 1971, he completed his habilitation with the granting of the license to teach the subjects of general political science, constitutional law and administrative law at the law faculty of the University of Vienna. Schäffer's habilitation thesis dealt with the “interpretation of the constitution in Austria”. After his habilitation he became a university lecturer at the University of Vienna and a member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers. From 1974 to 1976 Heinz Schäffer worked in the constitutional service of the Federal Chancellery , from May 22, 1974 as Ministerial Secretary.

On June 1, 1976, Heinz Schäffer finally accepted an offer at the University of Salzburg for the professorship there for “Public Law with Special Consideration of Commercial Administrative Law”. In the following years he was repeatedly dean of the law faculty of the University of Salzburg (1979–81) and head of the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Salzburg (1981–1983, 1987–1989, 1995–1998, 1998–2000). In 1981 Schäffer was a founding member and since then chairman of the Austrian Society for Legislative Studies . In the course of his academic career, he also held several visiting professorships at other universities, for example in 1991 at the University of Girona , 1997 at the University of Tarragona and also in 1997 at the Universitat Internacional de Menorca and in 2000 at the University of La Sapienza in Rome . In 2003 he was a co-founder and was elected a board member of Societas Iuris Publici Europaei . From 2007 to 2011 he also served as president of this association.

In 1999, Heinz Schäffer was appointed a substitute member of the Constitutional Court. From 2006 onwards he was an Austrian ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . On January 1, 2008, Heinz Schäffer was appointed as judge at the Liechtenstein State Court .

Private life

Heinz Schäffer was married to Ingrid Schäffer from 1971 to 1991 and had a son with her in 1973. From January 3, 1995, he was married to María Jesús Montoro Chiner, a university professor at the University of Barcelona , for the second time .

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SURNAME Schäffer, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian constitutional lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 2008