Felix Ermacora
Felix Ermacora ( born October 13, 1923 in Klagenfurt, † February 24, 1995 in Vienna ) was an Austrian international law expert and Member of Parliament of the Austrian People's Party from 1971 to 1990.
Biography
From 1957 was the lawyer Ermacora at Innsbruck University professor of political science and international law, from 1964 Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna. From 1958 he was also a member of the European Human Rights Commission and the UN Human Rights Commission. In 1974 he was president of the UN Human Rights Commission. From 1984 he was the rapporteur of the UN in Afghanistan. He became director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in 1992.
In addition to pioneering achievements in the field of human rights is Ermacora has particularly concerned with South Tyrol: He was for many years ÖVP -Alto Adige speaker and president of the sub-committee in the National Council and has authored several publications on international law and political Emtwicklung South Tyrol after 1945.
In a legal opinion that he was prepared for the Bavarian state government in 1991, he came to the conclusion that the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia was in the years 1945/46, satisfies the conditions of genocide:
" The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from the ancestral homeland from 1945 to 1947 and the other-directed resettlement after the Second World War not only contradicted the promised in the Atlantic Charter and the Charter of the United Nations self-determination, but the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans is genocide and crimes against humanity that are not verjährbar. "
Ermacora knew no fear of contact with the external political rights: so he joined in 1994 at Innsbruck Freedom Kommers the German national fraternities on, was a board member of the International Society for Human Rights, Speaker of the observed from the Protection of the Constitution Society for Free Journalism, interviewed the boy's freedom and edited largely the anthology "Identity and nation ," which was published in 1987 by the right-wing Grabert -Verlag. He was also one of the few ÖVP members who published regularly in the extreme right-wing auditorium.
In order to continue international law works in his mind, the Felix Ermacora Institute was founded in 1999. On the occasion of its tenth anniversary of the death was donated by the ÖVP parliamentary group and the Political Academy of the Austrian People's Party of the Felix Ermacora Human Rights Award 2005. The first prize winners were Father Georg Sporschill and the ORF journalist Friedrich orter.
Ermacora received honors from various countries, including Order of Merit from Germany and France, as well as the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights and the European Human Rights Prize of the Council of Europe. The universities of Cologne and Strasbourg awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Between 1967 and 1973 he served as President of the Austrian Alpine Association ( from 2013 his son Andreas Ermacora ). Under his presidency, the club was involved in the establishment of the National Park Hohe Tauern; the Alpine Club also presented its comprehensive land in Carinthia and East Tyrol are available.
From 1993 until his death he was President of the Austrian Federal camaraderie.
Among his pupils was the current UN Special Rapporteur Manfred Nowak.
Awards
Works (excerpt)
- Handbook of fundamental freedoms and human rights, 1963
- General Theory of the State, 2 volumes, 1970
- Austrian Constitutional Doctrine, 2 volumes, 1970/80
- South Tyrol and the homeland Austria, 1984
- Secret report of the South Tyrolean delegation to the Paris Conference in 1946, 1987
- Outline of human rights in Austria, 1988
- The formation of the Federal Constitution, 5 volumes, 1986-93
- Human Rights in the Changing World, 3 vols, 1974-94
- South Tyrol. The prevented self-determination, 1991
- Human rights without compromise. Experiences and encounters, 1993