Luzius Wildhaber

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Luzius Wildhaber (right) with Vladimir Putin , 2001

Peter Luzius Wildhaber (born January 18, 1937 in Basel ; † July 21, 2020 ; legal resident in Walenstadt ) was a Swiss international lawyer and university professor . He was President of the European Court of Human Rights from 1998 to January 2007 .

Life

childhood and education

Luzius Wildhaber was born in Basel as the son of folklorist Robert Wildhaber and Gertrud Mathilda, nee. Füglistaller was born. He studied law in Basel , Paris, Heidelberg , London and Yale . He was a member of the Zofingia fraternity . In 1961 he received his doctorate in law in Basel . He received an LL.M. from Yale Law School in 1965. and in 1968 the Doctor of Juridical Science . In 1969 Wildhaber received his habilitation at the University of Basel.

Professional career

From 1971 to 1977 Wildhaber was a professor at the University of Freiburg . From 1977 to 1998 he was professor for international, constitutional and administrative law and comparative constitutional law at the University of Basel . From 1992 to 1994 Wildhaber was the rector of the University of Basel .

His judicial career began as a judge at the State Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein , the Liechtenstein Constitutional Court . Prince Franz Josef II appointed him judge in 1975 (until 1988). From 1989 to 1994 he was a judge at the Administrative Tribunal of the Inter-American Development Bank . In 1991 he was appointed to the European Court of Human Rights . When it was converted into a permanent court in 1998, Wildhaber became its first president.

In July 2000 he briefly played an important political role when he was tasked by the EU with the selection of a three-member Council of Wise Men to assess the human rights situation in Austria . In response to the participation of the FPÖ in the government in February 2000, the other EU states had frozen their relations with Austria ; the Council's opinion should defuse this crisis.

His successor as President of the European Court of Human Rights was the French Jean-Paul Costa (2007), as judge by the Swiss Giorgio Malinverni (2006).

Since 1989 he has been a full member of the Academia Europaea .

Awards

Private life

In 1963 he married the academic Simone Wildhaber-Creux. Together they had two daughters, Anne Wildhaber (* 1968) and Isabelle Wildhaber (* 1973), who are also lawyers . After the death of his wife in 1994, he remarried. He later lived divorced.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Paul Gubser: Walenstadter Chronik "again and again these Walenstadter ..." Sarganserländer, Mels 2007, ISBN 978-3-907926-44-4 , p. 421 .
  2. ^ Daniel Gerny: An international lawyer with perseverance and passion - Luzius Wildhaber has died. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 24, 2020.
  3. ^ Directory of members: Luzius Wildhaber. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  5. ↑ Interview
  6. ↑ About the person | Law Faculty. Retrieved September 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wildhaber, Luzius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wildhaber, Peter Luzius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss international lawyer, university professor and judge
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2020