Karl Korinek

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Karl Korinek as VfGH President (2003)

Karl Korinek (born December 7, 1940 in Vienna ; † March 9, 2017 ) was an Austrian constitutional lawyer. From 1978 to 2008 he was a member of the Austrian Constitutional Court and its President from January 1, 2003 to April 30, 2008.

Life

Karl Korinek as President of the VfGH with the other members in 2007

Karl Korinek was born as the son of Franz Korinek (Secretary General of the Federal Chamber of Commerce since 1950 and Federal Minister of Finance from 1963/64 ). After his final examination on Mariahilfer high school in Vienna in 1958 he studied at the University of Vienna Law and in 1963 for Dr. iur. PhD .

From 1964 to 1973 he was legal advisor to the Federal Chamber of Commerce (advisor to the scientific department). In 1970 he completed his habilitation with a paper on economic self-administration (see below) for constitutional and administrative law at the University of Salzburg . From 1973 to 1976 he was full professor of public law at the University of Graz , then from 1976 to 1995 at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and finally from 1995 to 2003 at the University of Vienna.

Karl Korinek had been a member of the Constitutional Court since 1978 and was repeatedly elected permanent advisor. From 1999 to 2002 he was Vice-President and since January 1, 2003 President of the Constitutional Court. In a letter dated March 12, 2008, he announced his resignation to the Federal Chancellor for health reasons at the end of April 2008.

From 1986 to 2002 Korinek also held the position of President of the Austrian Standards Institute (ON).

Korinek combined, according to Die Presse on April 26, 2008, "his passion for law with a remarkable cultural and musical knowledge". In 2005, apart from his scientific publications, he achieved a non-fiction bestseller with Der Onkel Julius and Der Wiederaufbau Österreichs Österreichs in Anecdotes . In 2007 an interview with the Radio-Stephansdom music director Ursula Magnes was published as an audio book ( This is culture too ). Books on Joseph Haydn and Richard Strauss ' opera Der Rosenkavalier followed.

Korinek was a widower, his daughter Elisabeth is a business economist and his son Stephan is a lawyer.

Act

Korinek was a member of various Austrian and international scientific associations, a. a. the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers . He is also known for more than 200 academic papers, including several independent publications, primarily on questions of constitutional law (in particular the economic constitution, protection of fundamental rights, control and constitutional jurisdiction), broadcasting and telecommunications law, general administrative law and administrative sciences, spatial planning law and construction - and right of residence.

Memberships and honors

Fonts

  • Economic self-government. A legal study using the example of the Austrian legal system. Springer, Vienna / New York, NY 1970 DNB 457274638 , OCLC 951420257 (Habilitation University of Salzburg 1970).
  • with Jörg Paul Müller, Klaus Schlaich: The constitutional jurisdiction in the structure of state functions (= publications of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers , Volume 39). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, NY 1981, ISBN 978-3-11-008614-0 .
  • Tasks, organization and procedures of the procurement control commission at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs (lecture given at a symposium of the Austrian Academy for Executives on April 24, 1990) in "Procurement Control Commission - An Instrument for the Control of Federal Construction Contracts in the Light of European Procurement Law Development", with Josef Aicher , Issue 7 Law - Politics - Economy Current articles on constitutional law, administrative law and commercial law, edited by Karl Korinek and Heinz Peter Rill. Orac Verlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7007-0169-1 .
  • Development tendencies in the constitutional court's jurisprudence on fundamental rights - Lecture given to the Lower Austrian Legal Society in St. Pölten on November 20, 1991 (= series of publications Lower Austrian Legal Society , Volume 61). Orac, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-7007-0335-X .
  • with Michael Holoubek : Basics of public private sector administration. Constitutional and simple legal framework conditions of non-sovereign administration (= Grazer jurisprudence and political science studies , Volume 51). Leykam, Graz 1993, ISBN 3-7011-8965-X .
  • with Michael Holoubek (Ed.): Austrian Federal Constitutional Law. Text collection and commentary ( loose-leaf edition ). Springer, Vienna a. a. Lfg. 1ff. (1999ff), ISBN 3-211-83222-X .
  • Fundamental rights and constitutional jurisdiction (= research from the state and law , volume 134). Springer, Vienna et al. 2000, ISBN 3-211-83568-7 .
  • with Josef Aicher , Michael Holoubek (ed.): Community law and commercial law. Central problems of the impact of Community law on Austrian commercial law (= writings on the entire law of the economy , volume 35), Orac, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7007-1490-4 .
  • Uncle Julius or the reconstruction of Austria in anecdotes. Drawings by Ironimus . Manz, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-214-00645-2 .
  • State and Art (= Schönburger Talks on Law and State , Volume 5). Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 3-506-72958-6 .
  • That too is culture. Law of Culture - Culture of Law. Karl Korinek in conversation with Ursula Magnes, 107.3 Radio Stephansdom. With music by Beethoven , Haydn , Mozart , Schubert , Strauss Vater , Webern . Audio CD with booklet . Manz, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-214-00351-7 .
  • Joseph Haydn - Renewal and Perfection. An approximation in five essays. Manz, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-214-00694-5 .
  • The Rosenkavalier. A Viennese masquerad - and nothing more? Manz, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-214-00691-4 .

Literature (about Karl Korinek)

Web links

Commons : Karl Korinek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former VfGH President Korinek has died . APA article on DiePresse.com , March 10, 2017, accessed March 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ Janko Ferk : Composition in paragraphs: educated middle class: Karl Korinek and "his" music. DiePresse.com , April 25, 2008, archived from the original on July 7, 2012 ; accessed on March 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Government wants to bring the constitutional court into line. Format , June 2, 2001, accessed March 10, 2017 .
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
  6. ^ Prize winner - Big Brother Awards 2007 . Big Brother Awards Austria website, accessed on March 10, 2017.
  7. ↑ Innitzer Prize 2015 goes to former VfGH President Korinek . Archdiocese of Vienna , November 16, 2015, accessed on March 10, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Korinek, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, President of the Austrian Constitutional Court
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2017