Jakob Finci

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Jakob Finci (born October 1, 1943 in Kampor concentration camp on the island of Rab ) is a Bosnian lawyer , President of the Jewish Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina and former ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Switzerland .

Life

Finci was born into a family of Sephardic Jews shortly after the prisoners liberated themselves on the grounds of the Kampor concentration camp on the island of Rab . After attending high school, he studied law in Yugoslavia at the University of Sarajevo and has been working as a lawyer specializing in international commercial law since 1966 . For the then Yugoslav company Energoinvest he worked as a corporate lawyer in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ethiopia and Kenya .

In Sarajevo, between 1983 and 1990, he was director of the bobsleigh run on Trebević, which was created for the 1984 Winter Olympics . He also trained as an international competition judge for bobsleigh . From 1988 to 1990 he worked as a tutor at the United Nations University .

During the Bosnian War and the siege of Sarajevo , he tried to take over the tasks of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent with the philanthropic Jewish organization La Benevolencija, which he founded in 1991 and managed to get two trucks a month from the Croatian coastal city of Split to during the armed conflict besieged Sarajevo - one each with food and medicine - were allowed through and that 2,500 people of all ethnic groups were able to leave the besieged city. At that time, his wife decided to support him in his work and did not flee the city, but Jacob and his wife sent their then thirteen-year-old son to Israel to live with his older brother.

In 1995 he became chairman of the Jews in Bosnia. In 1997 he co-founded the Interreligious Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is the current president. From 2001 he taught interdisciplinary postgraduate studies at the University of Sarajevo. and was accredited as ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Switzerland in 2008. Finci was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit and the French Order of Merit of the Legion of Honor. On behalf of La Benevolencija he received the Carl von Ossietzky Medal in Germany in 1995 .

Action at the European Court of Human Rights

Together with the Roma representative Dervo Sejdić, Finci appealed against the Bosnian Constitution to the European Court of Human Rights , as it violates the European Convention on Human Rights, because Roma and Jews as well as children from " mixed marriages " are prevented from voting for the Second Chamber of the Bosnian Parliament ( Dom naroda Bosne i Hercegovine) and for the collective presidency , as only ethnic Bosnians, Serbs and Croats are allowed. In September 2009 the lawsuit was upheld and the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the other Bosnian constitutional organs would have an obligation to make the provisions non-discriminatory, but the authorities have not yet fulfilled this obligation.

Fonts

  • The Sarajevo Haggadah . Sarajevo, 1999 [1]

Web links

Commons : Jakob Finci  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ East-West - An eventful life - conversation with Jakob Finci, the chairman of the Sarajevo Jewish community. Retrieved February 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Jakob Finci. Retrieved February 25, 2016 . Date of birth at Bnf
  3. ↑ a b c d e The Times of Israel - In post-war Bosnia, Jews celebrate 450 years of survival. Retrieved February 25, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c d website of the European Parliament - BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON JAKOB A. FINCI. Retrieved February 29, 2016 .
  5. ↑ United Nations Development Program - Jakob Finci. Retrieved February 25, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Bosnia Jew seeks to reverse ban on running for president , in: Haaretz , June 5, 2009; http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/11/02/bosnia-move-end-discrimination  ; Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  ; http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1672883  ; http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7916300 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.minorityrights.org
personal data
SURNAME Finci, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1943