Winfried Platzgummer

Winfried Platzgummer (born October 16, 1930 in Hofgastein ) is an Austrian legal scholar in the fields of criminal law , criminal procedure law and criminology . From 1979 to 1981 he was rector of the University of Vienna .

Life

Winfried Platzgummer was born in what was then Hofgastein (from 1936 Bad Hofgastein ) as the son of the Tyrolean state parliament president Adolf Platzgummer (1893–1951). His older brother was the Provincial of the Austrian Jesuits Helmut Platzgummer (1929-2017). Winfried Platzgummer studied law at the University of Innsbruck , where he received his doctorate in 1955. iur. PhD . He then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Criminal Science and from 1962 to 1965 trainee judge in Innsbruck . In 1964 he completed his habilitation under Friedrich Nowakowski in the fields of criminal law, criminal procedural law and criminology.

In 1965 he held a visiting professorship at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , in 1966 he was appointed associate professor for criminal law and criminal procedure law to the law and political science faculty of the University of Vienna , where he was appointed full professor in 1968. After the University Organization Act of 1975 (UOG 1975) came into force , he founded a joint institute for criminal law and criminology with the newly appointed professor of criminal law and criminology Manfred Burgstaller .

In the academic years 1975/76 and 1976/77 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law, in the academic years 1979/80 and 1980/81 he was elected Rector of the University of Vienna . In this function he was a board member of the University Association Alma Mater Rudolphina . He retired in 1999 and was succeeded as full professor by Wolfgang Brandstetter , later Minister of Justice and Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria , who had previously been Platzgummer's assistant from 1981. His work Basics of Austrian Criminal Procedure was published eight times between 1984 and 1997.

Awards (selection)

• 1988: Large gold medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria
• 1991: Gold Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna

Publications (selection)

• 1964: The form of consciousness of intent: A criminal law dogmatic investigation on a psychological basis , habilitation thesis, Berlin / Heidelberg 1964, ISBN 978-3-662-26331-0 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-26331-0
• 1967: The criminal law limits of the strike in the public service: Three legal opinions , together with Robert Seiler and Theodor Rittler , Vienna, Federal Chamber of Commerce
• 1984: Fundamentals of Austrian criminal proceedings , Springer, Vienna / New York, 8th revised edition 1997, ISBN 978-3-211-83050-5
• 1989: Committees of inquiry and the rule of law , together with Heinz Mayer and Wolfgang Brandstetter , Manz-Verlag, Vienna 1989, ISBN 978-3-214-07904-8
• 1994: The criminal fight against neo-Nazism in Austria , together with Hans Haider and Christoph Schönborn , writings of the Vienna Catholic Academy 2
• 1996: Freedom of Art - Freedom of Religion , together with Hans Haider and Christoph Schönborn, writings of the Vienna Catholic Academy 10
• 2013: Johann Georg Grasel in court. The interrogation protocols of the Viennese criminal court and the court martial in Vienna , together with Christian Zolles, Horn / Waidhofen an der Thaya, Waldviertler Heimatbund, ISBN 978-3-900708-27-6

Web links

• Winfried Platzgummer in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Winfried Platzgummer, o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. iur. . Retrieved July 29, 2017.
2. ↑ Biolex: Adolf Platzgummer . Retrieved July 29, 2017.
3. ↑ Biolex: Helmut Platzgummer . Retrieved July 29, 2017.
4. ^ ^{A b} Winfried Platzgummer, Awards in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna