100th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1981 - 3 Shilling

The lawyer Hans Kelsen was born on October 11, 1881 in Prague. In 1911, Kelsen habilitated at the Vienna Law Faculty with his work on the "main problems of constitutional law". In 1919 he became a full professor at the University of Vienna. After the establishment of the republic Kelsen became of state chancellor Karl Renner consulted for the drafting of the definitive constitution of Austria. Until 1930, he served as a judge in the Constitutional Court, which he helped to shape. After the constitutional amendment had dismissed all constitutional judges of their office in 1929, he left Vienna. In 1940 Kelsen emigrated to the United States, where he worked at the University of California at Berkley. On April 19, 1973 Kelsen died in Berkely and left a scientific work that includes over 600 publications. Hans Kelsen is also described by the scientific world as a "jurist of the 20th century". For the Republic of Austria, he is one of the most important co-shapers of its Federal Constitution, for jurisprudence, the founder of a legal theory school, which is referred to as the "Vienna School of Legal Theory" or as "pure law".