Thomas Rauscher (lawyer)

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Thomas Rauscher (born February 7, 1955 in Erlangen ) is a German lawyer , university professor and local politician ( FDP , now independent). Since 1993 he has held the chair for international private law , European private law and civil law at the University of Leipzig .

Life

education and profession

After high school studied Rauscher initially until 1980 graduate mathematics in Munich , then to 1982 jurisprudence . In 1983 he was by the Faculty of Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University with the work commitment and place in Art. 5 no. 1 of the Brussels Convention to Dr. iur. PhD. After completing his legal clerkship , Rauscher was initially an academic advisor and then a senior assistant at the University of Munich . There he completed his habilitation in 1990 on the subject of reform issues of statutory inheritance and compulsory portion law .

Since 1993 Rauscher has held a C4 professorship for international private law , comparative law and civil law at the University of Leipzig. There he is professor and director of the Institute for Foreign and European Private and Procedural Law. As part of his studies on private international law, he also published a book on Islamic family law.

On May 6, 2016, he was awarded the title doctor et professor honoris causa by the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest .

politics

With the election on March 2, 2008, Rauscher entered the district council of the Rosenheim district for the FDP . Rauscher also ran for the FDP in 2009 as a candidate for the European elections and in 2013 for the Bundestag election for the Rosenheim constituency . In December 2013, Rauscher left the FDP and continued his mandate in the district council without a party .

controversy

Rauscher became publicly known because of some controversial statements on his private Twitter account in 2016 and 2017. Among other things, he tweeted in November 2017 about a march of Polish patriots including a minister in Warsaw , in which right-wing extremists also took part : "Poland:" "A white Europe of fraternal nations." For me this is a wonderful goal! , Already in 2016 he tweeted in connection with the migration crisis: "It is natural to defend yourself when your own culture goes under. The 'fear of the white man' should be defensive!" . In another tweet from November 2017 he wrote: "We owe nothing to the Africans and Arabs. They have destroyed their continents through corruption, sloppiness, unrestrained multiplication and tribal and religious wars and are now taking away from us what we have built with diligence."

These statements were qualified as racist in the public debate . The student council of the University of Leipzig accused him of agitation against refugees and Muslims as well as an “aggressive and authoritarian choice of words”. The University of Leipzig distanced itself from Rauscher in November 2017. She said that investigations would now be initiated and legal steps against Rauscher would be examined. The Saxon State Minister for Science and Art, Eva-Maria Stange , wrote that she criticized the "xenophobic opinion of Rauscher [...] sharply". Because of the statements, there were protests by students at the university.

Rauscher defended his statements in the Leipziger Volkszeitung in 2016 and in the Huffington Post in 2017 and called the accusation of racism "absolutely ridiculous". A “white Europe” is “just like a black Africa or a Thai Thailand” a “wonderful destination”. Shortly afterwards, he deleted his Twitter account. At the end of December 2017, he presented his positions again in an interview in Stern and argued for ethnopluralism in the sense of equal recognition, the protection of all cultures and an evolutionary mutual exchange. He also distinguished himself from nationalist positions.

In December 2017, the Saxony Ministry of Science announced that it would not take any legal action against Rauscher. An examination involving experts from the Ministry of Justice revealed that the statements examined were covered by the fundamental right to freedom of expression . Incidentally, Rauscher could also invoke the fundamental right to freedom of science .

Publications (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Institute for Foreign and European Private and Procedural Law - Chair for International Private Law, European Private Law and Civil Law: Thomas E. Rauscher
  2. ^ Result of the election of the district council of the district of Rosenheim on 2008-03-02. In: landkreis-rosenheim.de. August 25, 2010, accessed December 15, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Thomas Rauscher (FDP). In: parliamentwatch.de . Retrieved September 4, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Rauscher leaves the FDP. In: Upper Bavarian Volksblatt . December 12, 2013, accessed December 15, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Florian Bayer: State of emergency in the heart of Warsaw. Zeit-Online, November 12, 2017, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Leipzig professor tweets racist views - that's what his students say. bento.de, November 17, 2017, accessed on February 27, 2018 .
  7. ^ A b c Doreen Reinhard: Leipzig law professor: Lecturer alongside. Zeit-Online, December 3, 2017, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Student Council criticizes statements by Prof. Dr. Thomas Rauscher (Faculty of Law) on his Twitter account. Student Council of the University of Leipzig, February 1, 2016.
  9. ↑ a b Leipzig: University wants to take action against a racist professor. In: Spiegel Online . November 15, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Stefan Locke: Leipzig law professor: "Africans take away what we have built up". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. November 16, 2017. Retrieved November 21, 2017 .
  11. ^ A b Accusations of racism at the University of Leipzig: Right-wing law professor is allowed to stay . In: The daily newspaper: taz . December 8, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed December 9, 2017] with a photo of the protests and a banner with the inscription: “No space for racism”).
  12. ↑ Student Council Leipzig accuses law professor of agitation against refugees. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . February 1, 2016, accessed February 5, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Matthias Meisner: Saxony: Vortex about racist tweets from a Leipzig law professor. In: tagesspiegel.de . November 16, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Petra Gasslitter: racism allegations in Leipzig: So the controversial law professor defended Rauscher. Stern, December 29, 2017, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Mario Beck: Rauscher case: No legal steps against Leipzig law professor. Leipziger Volkszeitung, December 7, 2017, accessed December 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rauscher, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor, professor at the University of Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH gain