Ludwig Adamovich senior

Ludwig Adamovich senior (born April 30, 1890 in Osijek , Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia , Austria-Hungary , † September 23, 1955 in Vienna ) was an Austrian legal scholar , judge and politician .

Life

Ludwig Adamovich studied at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in both rights in 1913 . He took part in the First World War and then entered the administrative service of the province of Lower Austria ; from 1920 he worked in the constitutional service of the Federal Chancellery . In 1924 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer for general political theory and Austrian administrative law at the University of Vienna.

Adamovich was appointed associate professor for constitutional and administrative law at the German University of Prague in 1927, as full professor for these subjects at the University of Graz in 1928 , and in 1934 at the University of Vienna in the same capacity.

From 1930 to 1934 he was a member and permanent assistant to the Constitutional Court . In 1933, however , the Federal Government of Dollfuss I persuaded all conservative judges of the court to resign, so that the court no longer had a quorum. Adamovich unsuccessfully participated in an initiative by the remaining judges to change this. The Constitutional Court was later formally dissolved by the dictatorial May constitution in 1934.

In the “corporate state” he was appointed as a member of the State Council and the Federal Council. In 1935 Adamovich played a key role in the formulation of the Austro-Fascist University Education Act. From February 16, 1938, he was Minister of Justice in the last Austro-Fascist federal government, Schuschnigg IV , which resigned on March 11, 1938, at the beginning of the "Anschluss" with Nazi Germany . After the “Anschluss” he was retired as a university professor by the National Socialists without permission for any other occupation.

After the end of the Second World War he took over his teaching post and was elected rector of the University of Vienna on May 1, 1945 . He held this position until autumn 1947 and played a key role in the reconstruction of the university. In 1945 Adamovich was also an advisor to Karl Renner's provisional state government on constitutional issues and worked out the constitutional drafts to restore the Austrian legal system .

Ludwig Adamovich Sr. was appointed Vice-President of the Constitutional Court after the re-establishment of constitutional jurisdiction , which took place in autumn 1945, and President of the Constitutional Court in 1946. He held this office until his death in 1955.

It rests in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gr. 33A, R. 2, No. 5).

His son Ludwig Adamovich junior was also President of the Constitutional Court from 1984 to 2002 .

Awards

• 1954: Large gold medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria

Publications

• The Austrian constitutional laws of the federal and state governments , Vienna 1925
• Outline of the Austrian constitutional law , Vienna 1947

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Adamovich senior in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Ludwig Adamovich senior in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Ludwig Adamovich senior on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Fischer: The Conservative Democratic Mind , in: Website of the Wiener Zeitung of September 21, 2015
2. ^ Klaus Taschwer : University of Vienna at the end of April 1945: The missed zero hour Der Standard , May 1, 2020.
3. ^ Vienna city hall correspondence: Ludwig Adamovich 60 years old
4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)