Theo Öhlinger

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Theodor "Theo" Öhlinger (born June 22, 1939 in Ried im Innkreis ) is an Austrian constitutional lawyer and university professor .

life and work

After visiting the elementary school (1946-1950) and a grammar school (1950-1958) studied Öhlinger 1958-1962 Philosophy and 1962-1966 legal and political science at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. From 1967 to 1972 he was a member of the constitutional service of the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria and, between 1965 and 1974, he also worked as a university assistant. In 1972 he completed his habilitation at the University of Innsbruck, where he became an associate in the following year. Professor of European Law appointed. In 1974 he accepted a position at the University of Vienna and worked there until 2007 as full professor of public law . From 1995 to 2005 he also took on the role of board member of the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna . Visiting professorships have taken him to the University of Paris-Nanterre , the Dickinson School of Law at the Pennsylvania State University and the Universities of Friborg and the University of Aix-en-Provence .

From 1977 to 1989 the lawyer acted as a substitute member of the Constitutional Court , from 1989 to 1995 he was director of the Federal Administrative Academy . From 1984 to 1990 he was a member of the Committee of Independent Experts of the European Social Charter , and from 1992 to 2004 he was a board member of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL). Since 1999 he has held the position of Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

From 2003 to 2005 Öhlinger was a member of the Austria Convention , 2007 and 2008 a member of the working group on constitutional reform in the Federal Chancellery. In his writings, speeches, lectures and interviews he regularly takes a position on historical and current constitutional issues.

Öhlinger has received several awards, including a. In 2012 he was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honor and in 2011 he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class . In 2019 he received the Wilhelm Hartel Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Publications

author

  • The international treaty in national law. A theoretical, dogmatic and comparative study using the example of Austria, Research from State and Law 23, Vienna, New York 1973.
  • The problem of the administrative contract . A component of a general administrative law of the providing and planning state, Salzburg - Munich 1974.
  • The hierarchy of the legal system. Legal theoretical and ideological aspects , Vienna 1975.
  • The federal state between pure legal theory and constitutional reality , Vienna 1976.
  • (together with Hans Mayrzedt and Gustav Kucera ): Institutional Aspects of Austrian Integration Policy , Vienna 1976.
  • Contracts in the federal state , Vienna 1978.
  • (together with Hans Floretta ): The human rights pacts of the United Nations . A contribution to the state of fundamental rights in Austria, in particular to fundamental social rights, Vienna 1978.
  • Constitutional problems of employee participation in companies , Vienna 1982.
  • The application of international law to treaties in the federal state , Vienna 1982.
  • Legge sulla Corte Costituzionale austriaca , Firenze 1982.
  • (together with Hans Richard Klecatsky ): The jurisdiction of public law - VwGG, VfGG, MRK , Vienna 1984.
  • 60 Years of Administrative Procedure Laws - Reform of Administrative Criminal Law : Are the Austrian Administrative Procedure Laws Still Up-to-date ?, Negotiations of the Ninth Austrian Jurists' Conference, Vienna 1985.
  • Constitutional aspects of Austria joining the EC , Vienna 1988.
  • The public service between tradition and reform , Administrative Studies, Volume 3, Vienna 1993.
  • Constitutional Law , 1st edition (2 volumes), Vienna 1993/94; 2nd edition 1995; 3rd edition 1997; 4th edition 1999; 5th edition 2003; 6th edition 2005; 7th edition 2007; 8th edition 2009.
  • (together with Peter Pernthaler ): Project of an ethnic group mandate in the Carinthian state parliament. Legal systematic investigation of the participation models of ethnic groups in Europe and proposals for the legal implementation in the Austrian legal system, ETHNOS Volume 49, Vienna 1997.
  • (together with Michael Potacs ): Community law and state law, The application of European law in domestic areas, Vienna 1998; 1st edition 1998; 2nd edition 2002; 3rd edition 2006.
  • Constitutional issues of membership in the European Union , Selected Treatises, Vienna 1998.
  • Proceedings before the courts of public law , Volume I: Constitutional jurisdiction (together with Martin Hiesel with the collaboration of Barbara Weichselbaum ), 2nd edition, Vienna 2001.
  • The museums and the law. From the opening of the imperial picture gallery to the Federal Museum Act, Vienna 2008.
  • (together with Michael Potacs): EU law and state law. The application of European law in the domestic area , Vienna 2012.
  • (together with Harald Eberhard ): Constitutional Law. 9th to 12th edition, WUV Universitätsverlag, Vienna 2010 to 2019.

editor

  • Legislative methodology . Legal guidelines in theory and practice, research from state and law 57, Vienna, New York 1982.
  • Legislation and computers , data processing in law, Munich 1984.
  • Law and Language , Fritz Schönherr Memorial Symposium 1985, Vienna 1986.
  • (together with Robert Weimar ): The European Regional Planning Charter , Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  • (together with Klaus Poier ): Direct Democracy and Parliamentarism? , Vienna 2015.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parlament.gv.at: Dr. Theodor Öhlinger ; accessed on June 23, 2016
  2. ^ Democracy Center Vienna: Theo Öhlinger: The Importance of Hans Kelsen in Transition , Revised version of a lecture, given in the Austrian Parliament in spring 2003, accessed on June 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ Futurezone : Is the administration of Austria bloated? , October 13, 2013, accessed June 23, 2016.
  4. ^ Theo Öhlinger: Laudation for Univ.-Prof. Dr. Harald Eberhard , on the occasion of the presentation of the "Herbert Tumpel Prize", accessed on June 23, 2016.
  5. ^ ORF : Debate about the presidency , Theo Öhlinger in conversation with Eva Haslinger , Ö1 - Mittagsjournal , December 30, 2015, accessed on June 23, 2016.
  6. ↑ Theo Öhlinger in conversation with Maximilian Steinbeis : “That would be something like a constitutional crisis” , Verfassungsblog, April 25, 2016, accessed on June 23, 2016.
  7. ^ Die Presse (Vienna): TTIP: Norbert Hofe's veto on thin ice , April 26, 2016, accessed on June 23, 2016.
  8. ↑ Parliament of the Republic of Austria: Direct Democracy vs. Parliamentarism? Panel discussion on the interaction of democratic institutions and processes in parliament , parliamentary correspondence No. 29 of January 20, 2015, accessed on June 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Öhlinger, Theo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Öhlinger, Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian constitutional lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Ried im Innkreis , Austria