Otto Lachmayer

Otto Lachmayer (born July 8, 1896 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary , † 1988 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Higher Regional Court President.

Life

Otto Lachmayer was born as the son of a former officer and later civil servant in Lemberg and finished attending a humanistic grammar school in 1914 with the Matura . As a war volunteer he was seriously wounded and as a lieutenant a. a. Awarded the Order of the Iron Crown 3rd Class . After studying at the University of Graz , he did his doctorate in 1920 and entered the judiciary.

In 1938, after the annexation of Austria , the public prosecutor Lachmayer was politically persecuted, arrested by the Gestapo and dismissed from the employment relationship with the dismissal of all claims. In 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and arrested by Soviet soldiers in Vienna at the end of the war and sentenced by a court of the MWD to 25 years of “labor and improvement camp” for “collaboration with the world bourgeoisie to the detriment of the world proletariat”. In 1955, 10 years later, he was released under the Austrian State Treaty with the occupying powers .

After various positions in the judiciary, he became Vice President of the Higher Regional Court in Vienna in 1957 and President of the Higher Regional Court in Graz from 1958 until he retired in early 1977 . Otto Lachmayer was its president from the founding of the Austrian Legal Commission in 1963 until the end of 1975.

Honor

• Protection of fundamental rights of property. Its limits and restrictions in the public interest. (= German section of the International Commission of Jurists (Ed.): Rule of Law in Probation. Volume 4), publication of the Austrian Commission of Jurists in honor of Otto Lachmayer with contributions by Hans Spanner , Peter Pernthaler and Helmut Ridder , C. F Müller, Heidelberg , Karlsruhe 1977, ISBN 3-8114-2977-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The presentation is based essentially on the curriculum vitae in the commemorative publication on the protection of property rights, p. IX f.