Josef Hupka

Josef Franz Hupka (born February 22, 1875 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died April 23, 1944 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was an Austrian law scholar and university professor . He was a full professor for trade and exchange law at the Juridical Faculty of the University of Vienna .

Life

Hupka was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . In 1901 he was ibid for Roman and German civil law and 1902 for trade and foreign legal habilitation . From 1906 he was an associate professor and from 1915 a full professor. In 1926/1927 he was Dean of the Law Faculty.

In addition to his academic work, Hupka, who converted to Protestantism in 1897 , was publicly committed to the anti-Semitism prevailing at the time : in the Philipp Halsmann case, for example, he stood up for the accused and, even after his pardon , demanded full rehabilitation. In 1930, Hupka also opposed the national student regulations of the then rector of the University of Vienna, Wenzeslaus von Gleispach . These student regulations, which were repealed by the Constitutional Court in 1931, would have clearly deteriorated the situation for Jewish students.

Hupka was persecuted under National Socialism for racist reasons and in 1938 due to the Nuremberg Laws, he was forced to retire and expelled from the University of Vienna. After the National Socialists Hupka canceled their pension in 1939 after more than 35 years of service at the University of Vienna, Josef and his wife Hermine Hupka fled to Amsterdam via Zurich in May 1939. The Hupka couple managed to hide in Bilthoven ( Utrecht ) until 1944 . However, they were arrested in spring 1944 and deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in April 1944 , where Josef Hupka died on April 23, 1944 - allegedly of a heart condition. Hermine Hupka was murdered in Auschwitz in October 1944 .

Others

In 2015, the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna named a meeting room after Josef Hupka.

Works

Certificate of authority. A civilistic investigation, with special reference to the German Civil Code. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1900.
The liability of the representative without power of representation. A contribution to the teaching of representation in legal transactions. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1903.
Counter-draft law on insurance contracts. Deuticke, Leipzig / Vienna 1908.
The Hague Convention on Bill of Exchange Rights and the League of Nations. De Gruyter, Berlin 1930.
The uniform exchange law of the Geneva Treaties. Springer, Vienna 1934.

literature

Oliver Rathkolb (Ed.): The long shadow of anti-Semitism: Critical discussions with the history of the University of Vienna in the 19th and 20th centuries . V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8471-0145-1 .
Klaus Taschwer : Fighter against anti-Semitism and victim of the Shoah . In: Johannes Koll (Ed.): “Purges” at Austrian universities 1934–1945: Requirements, processes, consequences . Böhlau, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-205-20336-0 , pp. 459-489 ( article online at Academia.edu ).
Hupka Joseph, lawyer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 13.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Return to the collective university memory. In: derstandard.at . April 22, 2015, accessed April 23, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Hupka, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hupka, Josef Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 22, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	April 23, 1944
Place of death	Theresienstadt concentration camp

[1] Return to the collective university memory. In: derstandard.at . April 22, 2015, accessed April 23, 2015.