Ota Weinberger

Ota Weinberger (20 April 1919 – 30 January 2009) was a Czech-Austrian jurist, legal philosopher, and logician. He was the Professor of Legal Science at the University of Graz and the University of Prague.

Biography Weinberger was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia on 20 April 1919 into an assimilated Jewish family of intellectuals. He was respected in the professional world as a logician and legal theorist who became known to a broad public beyond the academic framework as a political admonisher. For a long time, he suffered greatly from the political conditions in his homeland. As a Jew, he was first persecuted by the Third Reich. He was initially unable to complete his law studies at Masaryk University in his hometown and spent four years in concentration camps. After the war, he completed his studies and entered the court service.

As a democrat and liberal thinker, he refused to join the Czechoslovak Communist Party and was subsequently repressed by those in power. In the years 1953–1956, he had to work as a locksmith for political reasons. 1989–1990: Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Salzburg (Land Salzburg das Goldene Ehrenzeichen).