Max Scheffenegger

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Max Scheffenegger (born May 30, 1883 in Kirchdorf an der Krems , † March 24, 1963 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and member of the Constitutional Court.

Life

Dr. jur. Max (imilian) Scheffenegger was born the son of a court usher. After studying law, he worked as a legal intern in Graz from 1908 , later in Marburg ( Maribor ) and from 1912 as a judge in Gonobitz (formerly Lower Styria, now Slovenske Konjice ). In the First World War he was a reserve officer and military judge, from 1919 a judge in St. Pölten. In 1925 he committed himself to social democracy . In 1928 he was retired, after which he worked as a criminal defense lawyer . In February 1934, Scheffenegger was arrested for high treason, but released three weeks later. In July 1934 he defended the socialist freedom fighter Josef Gerl . Then he was a lawyer in Vienna. From April to December 1945 he was Undersecretary of State for Justice in the Provisional State Government in Renner 1945 . From 1946 to 1953 Scheffenegger was a member of the Austrian Constitutional Court .

In 1971 Scheffeneggergasse in Vienna- Liesing was named after him.

Merits

Always striving for uncompromising justice, Scheffenegger was a defense lawyer for social democrats (including the February fighter Josef Gerl ), communists, Jews and National Socialists. As early as June 1945, he proposed the abolition of the death penalty . He justified his point of view in several essays. In his capacity as a professional representative, Scheffenegger appeared repeatedly in public, including a. he refuted allegations against the judiciary in connection with Egon Schiele's arrest in 1912.

Publications

  • No more capital punishment . In: The future . Issue 5, May 1947, pp. 132f. [1]
  • The judges . In: The future . Issue 10, October 1947, pp. 300–302 [2]

literature

  • Wolfgang Stadler: ... I cannot be grasped legally: The proceedings of the Vienna People's Court against judges and public prosecutors 1945–1955 , Berlin-Hamburg-Münster: LIT 2007, p. 116 [3]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerlhof. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
  2. ^ Members of the Österr. Constitutional Court ( Memento of the original dated August 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verfassungsgerichtshof.at
  3. ^ Vienna in retrospect , June 5, 1950 : "The City of Vienna honors freedom fighters - three rallies in Brigittenau", Gerlhof
  4. ↑ Gertrude Enderle-Burcel et al. (Ed), Minutes of the Cabinet Council of the Prov. Government of Karl Renner 1945, Vol. I, Horn-Wien 1995, pp. 263-271
  5. ↑ Claudia Kuretsidis-Hauder, Heimo Halbrainer, Elisabeth Ebner (eds.) Punished with death. Historical and legal aspects of the death penalty in Austria in the 20th century and the struggle for its worldwide abolition, Graz: Clio 2008
  6. ↑ Christian M. Nebehay. Egon Schiele. Life and work in documents and pictures , Munich: dtv 1993, p. 111
personal data
SURNAME Scheffenegger, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and judge
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchdorf an der Krems
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1963
Place of death Vienna