Paul Weis

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Paul Weis (born March 19, 1907 in Vienna , † February 6, 1991 in Geneva ) was an Austrian lawyer and survivor of persecution by the National Socialists . He is considered the “ founding father of protection ” ( UNHCR:, German: “founding father of protection”).

Life

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Weis studied a. a. with Hans Kelsen , one of the most important legal scholars of the 20th century, and completed his studies with a doctorate in international law at the University of Vienna in 1930. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in March 1938, Weis was interned in the Dachau concentration camp . In April 1939 he was released from Dachau due to the acquisition of an entry visa for the United Kingdom . In 1942 Weis joined the World Jewish Congress and headed its legal department. He thus occupied a key position in the recovery of Jewish property in European countries. He also joined the movement for the liberation of Austria from exile . His second dissertation Nationality and statelessness in international law ( German  citizenship and statelessness in current international law ) at the London School of Economics , which was published in 1956 and is considered a standard work, also dates from this time . Weis became the first Protection Director of the International Refugee Organization in 1949 . He was also the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees before and during World War II and Head of the Legal Department of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. As co-author of the Geneva Refugee Convention , he made fundamental contributions to international law, in particular to asylum and refugee law.

In 1991 Weis was posthumously awarded the Nansen Refugee Prize for his services to the rights of refugees .

Fonts

  • UNHCR (Ed.): The Refugee Convention, 1951: The Travaux préparatoires analyzed with a Commentary by Dr. Paul Weis . 1990 (English, refworld.org [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
  • Protection against group defamation: present law and its extension . British Section of the World Jewish Congress, London 1944, urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201309287312 (English).
  • Paul Weis, Rudolf Graupner: The problem of statelessness . British Section of the World Jewish Congress, London 1944, urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201307282659 (English).

Monographs

  • Nationality and statelessness in international law . Stevens, London 1956 (English).
    • Nationality and statelessness in international law . 2nd, revised edition. Sijthoff & Nordhoff, Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands and Germantown, Maryland, USA 1979, ISBN 90-286-0329-8 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: 1991 Libertina Appolus Amathila / Paul Weis. In: unhcr.org. March 21, 1990, accessed July 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Gilad Ben-Nun: The Israeli Roots of Article 3 and Article 6 of the 1951 Refugee Convention . In: Journal of Refugee Studies . Volume 27, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 101-125 , doi : 10.1093 / jrs / fet016 .
  3. ↑ Marko Baumert: Paul Weis (ed.), The Refugee Convention, 1951. The travaux préparatoires analyzed, with a commentary by the late Dr. Paul Weis . In: Constitution and Law in Übersee (ed.): VRÜ Constitution and Law in Übersee . tape 32 , no. 3 . Nomos, 1999, ISSN  0506-7286 , p. 397-398 , doi : 10.5771 / 0506-7286-1999-3-397 .
  4. ↑ Citizenship and Statelessness in Current International Law . In: Series of publications of the legal society eV Berlin . No. 9 . Berlin 1962.
  5. ↑ UNHCR (Ed.): The Refugee Convention, 1951: The Travaux préparatoires analyzed with a Commentary by Dr. Paul Weis . (English, refworld.org [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).
personal data
SURNAME Weis, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and survivor of persecution by the National Socialists
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1991
Place of death Geneva