Ludwig Adamovich

Ludwig Karl Adamovich (born 24 August 1932, in Innsbruck), commonly known as Ludwig Adamovich Jr., is an Austrian constitutional scholar, civil servant, and educator. From 1956 to 1984, Adamovich worked for the Constitutional Service of the Austrian Chancellery; he also taught law at the University of Graz. From 1984 to 2002, he served as the president of the Austrian Constitutional Court. Since 2004, Adamovich has been acting, on an honorary basis, as an advisor on matters of constitutional law to Presidents Heinz Fischer and Alexander Van der Bellen. Early life Ludwig Karl Adamovich was born on 24 August 1932 in Innsbruck. His father was Ludwig Adamovich Sr., a noted legal scholar and a member of the Austrian Constitutional Court at the time. The family was conservative; the elder Adamovich had been educated at the Jesuit Kalksburg College, supported the Christian Social Party, and would later become minister of justice for the Austrofascist government of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. The relationship between father and son was difficult. Adamovich Sr. was controlling and pedantic; Adamovich Jr. was unable to meet his father's expectations either academically or in terms of personality.