Peter Ludwig Berger (lawyer)

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Peter Ludwig Berger (born November 7, 1896 in Baden near Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died July 1978 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and Christian party and trade union official.

Life

Peter Berger was a son of the lawyer Johann Berger and Angela Neumann. He studied law at the University of Vienna and was a soldier in the First World War. He received his doctorate in law in Vienna in 1921 and in political science in 1924. He lived with his wife Angela Berger in Baden at Welzergasse 11 until 1938.

Berger became a functionary of the Christian trade union movement in the Republic of Austria and a functionary of the Christian Social Party (CS) and, after 1934, of the Fatherland Front (VF) in the Austrian corporate state . After Austria was " annexed " to the German Reich in 1938, he fled to Brazil and from there went to the USA . From 1940 to 1953 he taught international law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC

He became a member of the Free Austrian Movement in the USA and a leading functionary of the Christian Socialist Party of Austria founded by Hans Rott .

Berger returned to Austria in 1953, where he worked as a university lecturer. In 1956 he became Secretary General of the Research Institute for Issues relating to the Danube Region (FID) founded by Theodor Hornbostel in 1953 and editor-in-chief of the magazine “Der Donauraum”.

During the Nazi era, Peter Berger's citizenship was revoked for racist reasons in 1941, and the two doctoral degrees from the University of Vienna were subsequently also revoked. The doctoral degrees were re-awarded to him posthumously in 2003.

Fonts (selection)

  • Fascism and National Socialism. A comparison of the spiritual bases . Vienna. 1934
  • Elections and Parties in Austria , in: The Journal of Politics , XII (1950), pp. 511-529
  • The Internationalization of Jerusalem , in: The Jurist, V10, No. July 3, 1950
  • National self-determination and minority protection in the United Nations . 1956
  • The discussions about Austria's neutrality . 1957
  • The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 . Vienna 1967

literature

  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 87.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are numerous confusions with the namesake Peter L. Berger , who was born in 1929, and are also in the list of publications in the HdE.
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Peter Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian, Christian party and trade union functionary
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden near Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 1978
Place of death Vienna