Karl Wolff (lawyer, 1890)

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Karl Wolff (born February 11, 1890 in Peterwardein , † August 17, 1963 in Vienna ) was an Austrian legal scholar , university professor and constitutional judge . Wolff was a member of the Austrian Constitutional Court from 1946 to 1960 and its vice-president from 1958.

education

Karl Wolff was born on February 11, 1890 in Peterwardein. His father was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army and was a general auditor there until his death . In 1908 Karl Wolff passed the Matura at the Piaristengymnasium in Vienna and then began to study law at the law faculty of the University of Vienna . He completed this study in 1913 with the doctorate sub auspiciis Imperatoris as a doctor of law . From October 1, 1913 to November 1918, Wolff did military service, most recently holding the rank of lieutenant auditor in the reserve .

Professional background

In 1915 Karl Wolff took up his first professional position as a private lecturer for Austrian private law at the University of Vienna, in 1918 he was appointed as an associate professor for Austrian civil law at the Franz Joseph University in Czernowitz . Just one year later, after, as he later said himself, “the German character of this university could not be saved”, he left Czernowitz again to work as an honorary lecturer at the University of Innsbruck . In 1920 he became an associate professor at the University of Innsbruck and a full professor in 1921. In the academic year 1923/24 he subsequently also acted as dean of the law faculty at the University of Innsbruck. Wolff also received his doctorate for the second time in 1924 after completing his studies in philosophy with a major in philosophy and a minor in Arabic-Assyrian at the University of Graz .

In 1926, his teaching assignment was expanded to include legal philosophy, and in 1928 he was also given the license to teach international private law. In 1932/33 he was re-elected as dean of the law faculty and in 1937 even as vice-president of the Innsbruck judicial state examination commission. Although Wolff had been clearly anti-Semitic in 1933 with regard to the admission of Jewish students to the University of Innsbruck, he was taken into protective custody on March 13, 1938 because of his rejection of National Socialist officials, namely by Ferdinand Ulmer , after Austria was annexed to the National Socialist German Reich and put into temporary retirement. On March 31, 1939, he, who was also suspected of being a so-called “ half-Jew ”, was denied the enjoyment of rest by the National Socialist authorities. During the time of National Socialism in Austria , Karl Wolff, who was reduced to a minimum livelihood, made his way as a tutor and assistant to a law firm.

It was not until 1945 that Wolff was appointed full professor again, this time at the University of Vienna, where he also served as Senator of the University of Vienna in 1947/48 and as Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1948/49. Also in 1948 he became honorary professor at the University of World Trade in Vienna . As early as 1946, he had previously been appointed as a member of the Constitutional Court by the Federal President at the suggestion of the Federal Government . Karl Wolff worked at the VfGH until December 31, 1960, where he was appointed its vice-president on February 12, 1958. Almost two and a half years after leaving the VfGH, Wolff died on August 17, 1963 in Vienna, where he was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Private life

Karl Wolff had been married to Hedda Zelinka since 1922, with whom he had two children. He was a member of a connection (Marchia?) In the Burschenbunds-Convent .

literature

  • Karl Wolff: Karl Wolff . In: Nikolaus Grass (ed.): Austrian legal and political sciences of the present in self-portrayals (=  Raimund Klebelsberg [ed.]: Schlern-Schriften . Volume 97 ). Wagner University Press, Innsbruck 1952.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the “Golden Book” of the University of Innsbruck from 1921, according to Karl Wolff (1890–1963) - iPoint archive of the University of Innsbruck
  2. ^ According to Karl Wolff (1890–1963) - iPoint archive of the University of Innsbruck
  3. ^ Karl Wolff grave site , Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, Group 21, Row 1, No. 107.
  4. ^ Kurt Naumann: Directory of the members of the old gentlemen's association of BC Munich e. V. and all other former BCers as well as the old men of the Wiener SC . Saarbrücken, Christmas 1962, p. 72.
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, university professor and constitutional judge
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Peterwardein
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1963
Place of death Vienna