Walter Rechberger

Walter Hans Rechberger (born December 25, 1945 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lawyer and former professor at the University of Vienna .

Life

After studying law at the University of Vienna , Rechberger received his doctorate there in 1967. iur. He then worked until 1977 as a university assistant at the Institute for Civil Litigation at this university under his doctoral supervisor Winfried Kralik . 1968 Rechberger completed his court year. Since 1971 he has held a teaching position at the University of Vienna before he qualified as a professor in 1977 in civil court proceedings . He then worked as a university lecturer for this subject at the University of Vienna, and in 1979 he became an associate professor at the University of Vienna. After a visiting professorship at the University of Kansas , Rechberger was appointed full professor of civil procedural law at the University of Vienna in 1992. There he still teaches and researches after his retirement. From 1999 to 2006 he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna . Among other things, Rechberger was a member of the presidium of the Vienna International Arbitral Center , one of the chairmen of the permanent neutral court of arbitration of the Austrian Football League, president of the Vienna Legal History Society and a board member of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe .

In 1998 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pécs and in 2013 from the University of Athens . In 2012 he also received the Scientific Decoration of Honor for Services to the Austrian Notary's Office.

Private

Rechberger is a devout and committed Catholic in the church community. Since 1964 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KÖHV Amelungia Vienna in the ÖCV . He was also a parish councilor and board member of the Catholic lay council of Austria . Since 1988 he has also been a member of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem , since 1995 Komtur and from 1997 to 2005 Head Commander in Vienna. He has been a major officer there since 2005.

Rechberger is married to the former high school teacher Inge Rechberger, with whom he has two daughters (* 1975 and * 1977).

Works (selection)

• The defective execution: Defects in the facts, deficiencies in the effectiveness and reasons for nullity in the execution procedure and their procedural origin . Manz, Vienna 1978, ISBN 978-3-214-06916-2 (habilitation thesis).
• with Daphne-Ariane Simotta : civil procedure law . Manz, Vienna 1982, ISBN 978-3-214-00402-6 .
• with Helmut Fuchs : The new law degree: A guide . 3. Edition. Manz, Vienna 1984.
• with Paul Oberhammer and Teresa Bogensberger: The enforceable notarial act . Manz, Vienna 1994, ISBN 978-3-214-04614-9 .
• The non-dispute reform . Manz, Vienna 1996, ISBN 978-3-214-04656-9 .
• Notarial certification with a foreign element . Manz, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-214-00825-3 .
• with Mario Thurner: Insolvency Law . 2nd Edition. WUV Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-85114-672-1 .
• with Ludwig Bittner : Land register law . 2nd Edition. Facultas WUV, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7089-0173-2 .
• with Paul Oberhammer: right of execution . 5th edition. Facultas WUV, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7089-0381-1 .
• with Daphne-Ariane Simotta: Outline of Austrian civil procedural law: cognitive proceedings . 8th edition. Manz, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-214-15750-0 .
• with Brigitta Zöchling-Jud : The EU Inheritance Law Regulation in Austria: Handbook . Verlag Österreich, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7046-6779-3 .

literature

• Ludwig Bittner, Thomas Klicka , Georg Kodek and Paul Oberhammer (Hrsg.er): Festschrift for Walter H. Rechberger on his 60th birthday . Springer, Vienna, New York et old. 2005, ISBN 978-3-211-23872-1 .

Web links

• Rechberger at the Institute for Civil Procedure Law at the University of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Complete directory of the ÖCV 2004, IV - 460.