Wolfgang Taucher (lawyer)

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Wolfgang Taucher (* 1963 in Upper Austria ) is an Austrian lawyer and currently director of the Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum , which replaced the former Federal Asylum Office in Austria on January 1, 2014.

After studying law in Graz, he worked as a university assistant at the Institute for International Law at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz . From 1988 to 1996 he was legal advisor at the headquarters of Caritas Austria , and in 1992 also briefly assigned legal advisor in the office of the UN refugee commissioner in Vienna. In 1996 he took over the management of the Federal Asylum Office.

In February 2013, Wolfgang Taucher was elected Chairman of the Management Board of the European Asylum Support Office . In 2013 he was awarded the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

publication

  • Mathias Vogl (ed.) (2014): Aliens Law. 6th, updated and expanded edition. New scientific publisher. ISBN 978-3-7083-0965-1 (co-author)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian know-how for EASO on polizei.gv.at from February 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ Great decoration of honor to BAA director Wolfgang Taucher . Federal Ministry of the Interior dated May 2, 2013.
  3. ↑ Author: Mag. Wolfgang Taucher, MA on nwv.at, accessed on April 15, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Diver, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, director of the Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Upper Austria