Victor Pfaff

Victor Pfaff (born January 19, 1941 in Stuttgart ) is a lawyer specializing in asylum and immigration law who co-founded the Pro Asyl association in 1986 . In 1996 he received the Hermann Kesten Medal for his work .

Life

Victor Pfaff studied in Heidelberg and Berlin law . In Heidelberg he founded the Republican Club and the Rote Robe magazine , which later became an organ of the KBW . Because of his KBW membership, he lost his job as a teacher at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in the mid-1970s . His candidacy for the KBW in the 1974 state election in Hesse was not approved by the state election committee on the grounds that “he was only registered with his secondary residence in Darmstadt”. Pfaff specialized early on in immigration and asylum law. a. wrote articles in the Red Robe and the CPC .

Victor Pfaff is a “refugee advisor for the Diakonisches Werk der EKD ” and a “member of the commission for foreigners and ethnic minorities”.

Pfaff ran for the 2019 European elections in 5th place on the list of the small ÖkoLinX party , which could not win a seat.

Publications

(Ed. With) Mona Wikhäll: The Swedish model of exploitation; Texts on working life and the class structure in the welfare state . Transl. Victor Pfaff, Vorw. Günter Wallraff . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 1971.
Asylum Procedure Act , 2nd extension. Ed., Ext. by Reinhard Marx , Gerhard Strate , Victor Pfaff. Metzner, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-7875-5342-8 .
Veronika Arendt-Rojahn, Heinrich Freckmann, Victor Pfaff: “Other security from persecution” for Afghan and Iranian refugees in Pakistan? A report on a trip to Pakistan from February 6 to 16, 1988, Bonn 1988 (ZDWF series; 26).
The right goes behind the power , in: For the freedom of the world […] , 1998, pp. 43–49 (see below literature ).
Co-editor of the magazine for immigration law and policy , ZAR.

literature

"For the freedom of the world." Speeches on the occasion of the award of the Hermann Kesten Medal on Writers in Prison Day to Günter Grass 1995, Victor Pfaff 1996, SAID 1997 = For the freedom of the word / PEN Center Federal Republic of Germany . [Ed. from the City of Darmstadt's Magistrate, Press and Information Office. Ed .: Ursula Setzer], Darmstadt 1998 (Darmstadt documents; No. 4), therein:
- Burkhard Hirsch : Laudation to Victor Pfaff , pp. 35–42.

Web links

Literature by and about Victor Pfaff in the catalog of the German National Library
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Photo and list of publications
Freia Anders : Legal counter-publicity between professional politics, radical left-wing movement and repression: Die Rote Robe 1970 - 1976. Sozial.Geschichte Online , 8, 2012, pp. 9–46.

Individual evidence

↑ Complete table of contents of the Zs. Up to 1976. The full text of every issue can be called up via hyperlink.
^ University strike against political dismissal , in: KVZ No. 39, October 2, 1975, p. 11.
↑ Victor Pfaff: The barriers of the bourgeois election legislation , in: Hans-Jörg Hager (Hrsg.): The liberation of the working class can only be the work of the working class itself. Contributions to the rally for the state election in Hesse . Kühl, Mannheim 1974, pp. 29-31.
↑ Ecological Left: Everything about the European elections May 26, 2019. Ecological Left , 2019, accessed May 3, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Pfaff, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, co-founder of the Pro Asyl association
DATE OF BIRTH	January 19, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart

[1] Complete table of contents of the Zs. Up to 1976. The full text of every issue can be called up via hyperlink.

[2] University strike against political dismissal , in: KVZ No. 39, October 2, 1975, p. 11.

[3] Victor Pfaff: The barriers of the bourgeois election legislation , in: Hans-Jörg Hager (Hrsg.): The liberation of the working class can only be the work of the working class itself. Contributions to the rally for the state election in Hesse . Kühl, Mannheim 1974, pp. 29-31.

[4] Ecological Left: Everything about the European elections May 26, 2019. Ecological Left , 2019, accessed May 3, 2019 .