Raoul Kneucker

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Raoul Friedrich Kneucker ( Raoul F. Kneucker, born  February 13, 1938 in Vienna ) is an Austrian legal scholar and administrative scientist . From 1990 to 2002 he was Section Head for International Affairs in the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Art and, after his retirement in 2002, Honorary Professor for Political Science at the University of Innsbruck and for Law of Religions and Religious Communities at the University of Vienna .

Raoul Kneucker (2010)

Life

origin

Raoul Kneucker was born in Vienna into a Jewish-Catholic family as the son of Alfred W. Kneucker (born 1904 in Vienna, died 1960 there), a doctor, and his second wife Teri Kürbisch. According to his father's wishes, Raoul should also study medicine and, like his grandfather - an assimilated Jew  - become a doctor. The father had after the " annexation of Austria because of the" in 1938 Nuremberg racial laws emigrate . While Alfred Kneucker left his wife and son Raoul in Austria, he came to London via Sweden . There he was interned. He received an offer from the Quakers to run their hospital in western China . After another difficult journey, he finally came to Shanghai with his third wife, Herta Altmann , where he settled down and opened a medical practice. After being forced to move to the Shanghai ghetto by the Japanese occupiers in 1942, the US Army liberated him there. His (third) wife got a job with the latter. Alfred Kneucker decided not to return to Austria and was able to emigrate to the United States in 1947 . His professional path took him as an academic teacher, hospital physician and primary physician (with the corresponding branch exams for physicians of the respective state) from California via Texas and Montana to Chicago , where he was professor of surgery and urology at the last station of his life at the Chicago Medical School became active. During a lengthy visit to his home country, Alfred Kneucker died unexpectedly in 1960 in Vienna. During this time, he conducted appointment negotiations with the Federal Ministry of Education about the appointment of the chair for urology at the University of Vienna.

The son Raoul, on the other hand, grew up in Graz with his maternal grandparents, a family of railway workers.

education and study

Kneucker graduated from the Academic Gymnasium Graz and graduated in 1956. He won the Wartinger Prize of the Province of Styria . From the age of 10 he received violin lessons at the State Conservatory with Walter Klasinc.

He then studied interpreting and law at the University of Graz , in 1961 he obtained his doctorate. juris. With a Fulbright scholarship and a scholarship from the Vienna Scholarship Program , he studied political science at Brandeis University in Massachusetts ( USA ) in 1958/59 . In 1962 he studied US administrative law in the Salzburg seminar at Schloss Leopoldskron . After studying administrative sciences at the Speyer University of Applied Sciences in 1969, he went on to do research in Washington, DC as the Theodor Körner Prize winner . He continued his violin, viola and chamber music lessons with Walter Klasinc at the Graz State Conservatory in 1958/1959 with Robert Koff at the Music Department of Brandeis University.

During this time he led youth groups as a ski and tour manager for the Graz Alpine Club .

Professional functions

Kneucker began his professional career in 1962 in the court service in Graz and as a speaker for the Graz area. From 1964 on, he worked for Erwin Melichar as a university assistant at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna for five years. He was general secretary twice: from 1970 to 1978 he was general secretary of the Rectors' Conference, then until 1989 general secretary of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF).

From the 1990s onwards he held various functions in federal ministries: from 1990 to 1992 he was head of the economic research group, international research and technology programs , then head of the international affairs section in the federal ministry for science, research and the arts and then head of the group until 1999 the Scientific Research and International Affairs Section in the Federal Ministry of Science and Transport and Research and Science. In this later Federal Ministry he went into civil service retirement in 2002.

He then worked as an honorary professor for political science at the University of Innsbruck and for the law of religions and religious communities at the University of Vienna.

Expertise

  • Raoul Kneucker gained technical specialization in the areas of human rights, tax law, education and research law as well as in administrative sciences (bureaucracy research) and European law / European politics,
  • as honorary professor for political science at the University of Innsbruck with a focus on European politics and law (2002–2013) and at the University of Vienna for the law of religions and religious communities, with a focus on Protestant church law (2004–2017).
  • In 1977 he was visiting professor of educational law at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
  • From 1968 to 1994 he was a lecturer at the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Economics, the University of Klagenfurt, a lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy Vienna, the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, the Federal Administrative Academy, the Webster University - Vienna Campus (at these institutions: teaching in Austrian constitutional and administrative law, for an introduction to the law; teaching in Austrian constitutional and administrative law for political / administrative sciences, organizational theory, in particular public administration, philosophical foundations for studying political sciences); namely in courses of study in social sciences, history and archival training.
  • In 2008 he was visiting professor for European politics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  • At the University of Klagenfurt he led a sub-project " Human Rights - Basic Rights " as part of the university course " Political Education for Teachers " at the IFF .

Other activities

  • 1979 member of the team of experts of the Club of Rome for the education report No Limits to Learning. Bridging the Human Gap (J. W. Botkin - M. Elmandjra - M. Malitza).
  • Consultant work for research organizations in Austria, including in Seibersdorf and for the Austrian Academy of Sciences .
  • Representative of science in the listener and viewer representation of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF).
  • Evaluator for the research company Joanneum Graz.
  • OECD auditor of the science and technology policy of Czechoslovakia (1992) and Poland (1995).
  • Consultant of the European Commission, Brussels, expert and evaluator of the European Commission and others. a. for the COST program (2001, 2005, 2008), for the nanotechnology policy and for the Lisbon strategy (2006–2008).
  • Legal Higher Church Council of the Evangelical Church AB in Austria from 2006 to 2012.
  • Evaluator of the Dutch academic relations with Hungary (1995, 2000).
  • Legal advisor to the Waldorf School Movement in Austria (1976–1996).
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Alban Berg Foundation.
  • Chairman of the supervisory board of the private foundation Interdisciplinary Center for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences - ICCR until 2015.
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Open Medical Institute, Austro-American Foundation - AAF (resigned).
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies - WIIW ( resigned ).
  • Chairman of the Society of Friends of the Exile Library in the Literaturhaus Vienna from 2008.

Memberships

  • Austrian Lawyers' Conference; Austrian Society for Political Science (founding member, chairman 1978/79, member of the administrative science section).
  • Austrian Society for Canon Law (President 2009-2011)
  • Austrian subsidiary of the International Institute for Administrative Sciences, Brussels.
  • At times he was a member of the supervisory board of the Austrian Society for Space Issues.
  • Member of the Austrian Council for Science and Research, of the Commission for the Coordination of Business Research Institutions, of the Administrative Board of Seminar Schloss Leopoldskron Salzburg and of the Advisory Board of the Diplomatic Academy Vienna .

family

Kneucker was married to the American Linda B. (Brailove) Kneucker (died 2012) since 1966. Together they had two daughters (born in 1969 and 1971) and a son (born in 1977). In his second marriage, Kneucker has been with Dr. Gertraud Diem-Wille married

Awards

Raoul Kneucker in front of the Academic Gymnasium in Graz

Works (excerpt)

Constitutional and administrative law as well as European integration

  • The competition between judicial and administrative offenses. In: Juristische Blätter, Vienna 1964, pp. 238–254.
  • Constitutional issues relating to the taxation of commercial and business cooperatives. In: Der Österreichische Betriebswirt, Vienna 1967, pp. 78-104.
  • Effective remedies against violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. In: Juristische Blätter, Vienna 1968, pp. 598–609.
  • together with Manfried Welan : On the development of the principle of equality in Austria. In: Austrian Journal for Political Science, Vienna 1975, pp. 5–22.
  • The role of administration. In: R. Kicker, Andreas Khol , H.-P. Neuhold (ed.): Foreign policy and democracy in Austria. Salzburg, 1983, pp. 31-110.
  • Science, research, technology. Effects of the EEA Agreement. In: M. Gehler, R. Steininger (Eds.): Austria and European Integration 1945–1993. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1993, pp. 477-500; renewed: 2nd edition, 2014, pp. 505-530.
  • The public administration of silence. In: S. Jäkel & A. Timonen (Eds.): The Language of Silence I. Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser. B Humaniora, Vammala 2001, Vol II., Turun Yliopisto, Turku 2004; edited and published by A. Timonen, W. Greisenegger, R. Kneucker.
  • God above, in, under the constitution? A contribution to the debate about the reference to God in a new Austrian federal constitution. In: Journal of Evangelical Ethics, Gütersloh 2004, pp. 278–290.
  • Art 163-173 EGV. In: Heinz Mayer (Ed.): EU and EC treaty. Commentary taking into account Austrian judicature and literature. Vienna, 2005; Chapter renewed as: Art 179–190 TFEU. 2010.
  • together with Robert Kauer and Ulrike Pichal: The Law of the Evangelical Church in Austria. Loose-leaf edition, Volumes I and II, Vienna 2006.
  • Contracts with church leaders. In: Austrian archive for law & religion, 2/2011, pp. 293–327.
  • together with Peter Biegelbauer: Public administration - 20 years after 1994 [= Austria's accession to the EU ]. In: Andreas Maurer, Heinrich Neisser , Johannes Pollak (eds.): Austria's EU membership for 20 years. Vienna 2015, pp. 219–234.
  • together with Farid Hafez , Reinhard C. Heinisch and Regina Polak: Young, Muslim, Austrian. Insights into 20 years of Muslim youth in Austria , New Academic Press, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-9503510-6-4
  • Bureaucratic democracy, democratic bureaucracy. A commentary on the structure, shape and system of bureaucracy in Europe. Böhlau Verlag Vienna-Cologne-Weimar. 2020. ISBN 978-3-205-20920-1 .

Education, universities, research, technology and reform policies

  • together with R. Strasser and H. Tuppy: The university as an autonomous teaching and research company. Vienna 1968.
  • The University Organization Act 1975: The Legislative Forces. In: Austrian Journal for Political Science, 3/1980, pp. 261–276.
  • together with Manfred Nowak and Hannes Tretter: Human rights - basic rights, materials and texts on political education . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna: 1995.
  • Public Religions in Austria: The Sociopolitical Engagement of Evangelicals. In: J. Nautz et. al: Public Religions in Austria. Understanding of politics and civil society engagement. Innsbruck 2013, pp. 91-108.
  • together with Karl W. Schwarz: Religious Law and Theology. The "Vienna Model". In: Expert opinions and studies, No. 8, Evangelical Theological Faculty, University of Vienna , Vienna 2014 ( PDF file ).

Biographical

  • as Raoul F. Kneucker: About my father Alfred W. Kneucker. In: Friedrich Stadler: Displaced reason. Emigration and exile of Austrian science. Volume 2, Part 2, Youth and People, Vienna / Munich 1987/88 in unchanged new edition: Lit, Münster / Hamburg / Berlin / Vienna / London 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7373-0 , p. 827ff. (Essay in restricted view in Google Books .)
  • Raoul F. Kneucker on his 75th birthday, in: Austrian Archives for Law and Religion 60/2 2013. ISSN 1560-8670.
  • Europe, democracy, ecumenism, culture. Festschrift for Raoul Kneucker on his 80th birthday, eds. Gertraud-Diem-Wille, Ludwig Nagl, Anton Pelinka, Friedrich Stadler. Böhlau publishers Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2018. ISBN 978-3-205-20664-4 .

Web links

Raoul Kneucker. In: science.ORF.at

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ head of the week. In: iPoint, University of Innsbruck, accessed on February 2, 2016.
  2. ^ Raoul Friedrich Kneucker. ( Memento from February 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Website of the Institute for Practical Theology and Psychology of Religion at the University of Vienna, accessed on February 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ Parliamentary question 2846 / J-NR / 1997 of July 1, 1997, accessed on February 11, 2016.
  4. ↑ Parliamentary question 5585 / J-NR / 1999 of January 20, 1999, accessed on February 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ High distinction for Raoul Kneucker. Press release of the epd - Protestant Press Service, June 1st, 2011: "Federal Minister Rudolf Scholten awards Kneucker the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class."
personal data
SURNAME Kneucker, Raoul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kneucker, Raoul Friedrich (full name); Kneucker, Raoul F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and administrative scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna