Johann Rzeszut

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johann Rzeszut (born March 5, 1941 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lawyer and was President of the Supreme Court from 2003 to 2006 .

Life

Johann Rzeszut attended elementary school from 1947 to 1951 and then until 1959 the Bundesrealgymnasium Wien 2 . He then began studying law at the University of Vienna , which he earned in 1964 as Dr. iur. completed. In 1965 he was a legal trainee , then from 1966 to 1969 a candidate judge and from 1969 to 1971 district judge. In 1971 he became a public prosecutor at the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office, from 1977 Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor (OStA Vienna). Finally he became Attorney General ( General Prokurator ) in 1985 and Councilor of the Supreme Court in 1987 , then in 1997 President of the Senate of the Supreme Court. From 2003 to 2006 he was President of the Supreme Court. From June 30, 2003 to January 21, 2005 he was also a member of the Austria Convention .

Rzeszut received a lot of media attention through a report to the Austrian Parliament in which he made serious allegations against the prosecuting authorities entrusted with the Natascha Kampusch case . In it, he accuses the public prosecutor's office of consequent neglect of decisive police investigation results and a long-term delay or, up to the end, complete omission of the most sustainably indicated essential investigation steps. According to Rzeszut, the evaluation commission set up by the Ministry of the Interior to uncover possible investigative miscommunication, to which he himself belonged, was [...] significantly and in the long term hindered judicially . In addition, the media were deliberately supplied with false information. At the end of the report Rzeszut writes: In 42 years of legal service I have not experienced anything like it. At the request of the National Council , the Ministry of the Interior commissioned the FBI in 2012, as a foreign institution independent of Austrian authorities, to investigate the Kampusch case.

In February 2012 it became known that a police officer without an investigative mandate attempted to obtain DNA samples from a child who was rumored to be a daughter of Kampusch. Johann Rzeszut was heard as a witness in the investigation against the police officer. This said under the duty of truth that he did not know the man. However, the two are said to have had telephone contact several times. In December 2014 Rzeszut was charged with false testimony. The process, which ended with an acquittal in February 2015, as can be seen in the explanations given in the judgment, rather cast a crooked light on the procedure of the prosecution and the Federal Office for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption (BAK) in this case.

See also

Publications

  1. The death of the Kampusch kidnapper: Finding the truth in a stranglehold ISBN 1-534-66886-1

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Tiroler Tageszeitung : Rzeszut: Natascha Kampusch could have come to terms ( memento of September 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , October 15, 2010
  2. Stenographic minutes of the 80th session of the National Council (XXIV.GP), website of the Austrian Parliament, October 20, 2010
  3. Kampusch: Police investigated illegally on ORF on February 29, 2012, accessed on February 29, 2012.
  4. derStandard.at - Kampusch case: Trial against ex-Supreme Court presidents . Article dated December 18, 2014, accessed December 20, 2014.
  5. derStandard.at - Causa Kampusch: The highest judge with tunnel vision . Article dated December 18, 2014, accessed December 20, 2014.
  6. derStandard.at - Causa Kampusch: Ex-Supreme Court President Rzeszut acquitted . APA notification dated February 27, 2015,
  7. Full wording of the verdict in Andreas Unterberger - The acquittal and a slap in the face for BAK and StA
  8. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.6 MB)