Who is Who in Central & East Europe 1933

 


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Hans Anton Adler, Vienna ->
Since 1922 he has been concerned with the prevention of falsification of money and securities. Chief editor of "Erekennungszeichen" which is published by the International Committee of Criminal Police".

Karl Albert, Vienna ->
is the manager of Graphic Establishments in Austria, Hungary and Russia and is a private lecturer at the Police Headquarters in Vienna.

Paul von Auer de Alsóterény, Budapest ->
acted for the French government and the Banque de France in the 1000 French Francs notes forgery of Prince Windischgraetz.

Otakar Bas, Prague ->
Before and after the World War he was a defender in the most prominent Anti-Austrian political lawsuits.

Josef Bohuslav, Prague ->
After the breakdown of the Austro Hungarian Monarchy in 1918 he worked on the organization of the Supreme Administrative Court in the new Czechoslovakian Republic. He was the founder and editor of the Collection of Sentences of this Tribunal (which were named after him). His standard work about registers of landed property has also been translated into German.

Theodor Fischer, Cluj ->
has been a barrister in Albajulia and in Cluj (since 1911). He is an expert for Commercial and Mining Law.

Delvina Hiqmet, Tirana ->
He became Minister of Justice at the proclamation of Albania as a monarchy with King Ahmet Zogu as King. At this period the new civil law was put into force.

Janie Kalatz, Riga ->
was a justice of the peace in West Siberia and on the island of Sakhalin (1897-1905); a member of the district Court of Justice in Harbin (Manchuria) (1906-1918); a member of the Court of Appeal in Irkutsk; and a member of the District Court of Justice in Dazgavpils (Latvia) (1920-1922).

Panagiotis Papayanuopoulos, Athens ->
has made various criminological studies and reports on the life of the low Athenian population.

Anton Ozols, Riga ->
In 1933 he became Minister of Justice and he introduced the new Latvian criminal law.

Kazimierz Petrusewicz, Wilno ->
Up to 1919 he was an advocate in Minsk; in 1920 President of the Court of Appeals of the Eastern District; since 1922 a lawyer again; and during the World War he was Doyen of the Lawyer's Council in Wilno.

Václav Popelka, Zizkov, Prague ->
worked for an improvement in the system of Insane Asylums and for a reform of various civil and penal laws in a progressive and humanistic way.

Adolf Procházka, Prague-Karlin ->
Political repercussions were the results of his booklet "The Law case of Dr. Karl Pergler" in which he gave a lawyer's analysis of statements referring to the known case of Dr. Pergler, the Bohemian- American- Czech statesman.

Justin Stanescu, Buzau ->
was the defender in the famous lawsuit of Maria and Carolina Lupescu, who were supposed to have killed a husband and a father.