Oswin Martinek

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Oswin Martinek (born February 9, 1924 in Dornbirn ; † August 30, 1997 ) was an Austrian legal scholar , ministerial official and honorary professor. The main focus of his work was on Austrian labor and social law.

Professional background

Oswin Martinek was born on February 9, 1924 in the city of Dornbirn in the state of Vorarlberg . From 1930 to 1934 he attended elementary school and then the humanistic grammar school in Vienna. In 1941 Martinek was drafted for military service in the German Navy and seriously wounded in combat operations during World War II and taken prisoner of war . He did not return from captivity until June 1946 and then began studying law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna . This ended Oswin Martinek in 1950 with the promotion of Doctor of Law ( Dr.iur. ).

After completing the legal practice , Martinek accepted a job at the Vienna State Labor Office, where he was employed in the legal department, among other things. From February 1952 to February 1958 he worked at the Vienna Chamber of Labor , where he was ultimately appointed head of the “Public Service” department. In March 1958 he moved to the Federal Ministry for Social Administration , where he was appointed head of the Codification Department in 1963 . In January 1968 he was promoted to Ministerialrat and finally in February 1971 head of Section V “General Social Policy and Labor Law”. From January 1, 1975 he was also formally head of the section and thus one of the highest-ranking officials in the ministry. In 1989 Martinek retired as a ministerial official. A year later, on January 18, 1990, he was appointed a substitute member of the Constitutional Court by the Federal President at the suggestion of the Federal Government .

His scientific career culminated in 1972 when he was made an honorary professor for labor law at the University of Linz . In 1983 he was also awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class . Martinek co-founded the Austrian Society for Labor and Social Law in 1966 and was a member of its board of directors, and he has been a permanent member of the Austrian Legal Commission since it was founded in 1963. In addition, he was temporarily a member and managing director of the Labor Law Codification Commission, member of the Board of Directors of the International Labor Organization and chairman of the Equal Treatment Commission.

literature

  • Josef Cerny, Hans Floretta, Rudolf Strasser : On the 60th birthday of Oswin Martinek . In: The right of work . 1984, p. 97 .
  • Hans Floretta, Rudolf Strasser: Oswin Martinek's contribution to social policy and the development of labor law . In: Gerhard Botz , Karl R. Stadler , Josef Weidenholzer (eds.): Perspectives and tendencies in social policy - Oswin Martinek on his 60th birthday (=  publication by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History of the Labor Movement ). Europa Verlag Wien , Linz 1984, ISBN   3-203-50913  ( defective ) , p. 12-14 .
  • Josef Cerny, Hans Floretta, Rudolf Strasser: On the death of Oswin Martinek . In: The right of work . 47th volume, no. 6 , 1997, pp. 533 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Floretta, Strasser: Oswin Martinek's contribution to social policy and the development of labor law . 1984, p. 12
  2. ↑ Floretta, Strasser: Oswin Martinek's contribution to social policy and the development of labor law . 1984, p. 14
  3. ↑ Kurt Heller : The Constitutional Court. The development of constitutional jurisdiction in Austria from the beginning to the present . Verlag Österreich , Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7046-5495-3 , chapter short biographies of the members and substitute members of the Constitutional Court 1945-2010 , p. 643 .
personal data
SURNAME Martinek, Oswin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1997