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Paul Weis
UNHCR Protection Director

Paul Weis

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UNHCR Protection Director
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Vienna, Austria
Place of death
Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
Age
83 years
Education
University of Vienna
London School of Economics and Political Science
Awards
Nansen Refugee Award
(1991)
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Biography

Paul Weis (19 March 1907 – 6 February 1991) was an Austrian lawyer and survivor of the persecution by the Nazis. He is dubbed to be the "founding father of the protection".

Life

Weis was born in Vienna on 19 March 1907. He flew from the concentration camp Dachau. He was the Protection Director of the United Nationals High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR). He co-authored the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.He contributed groundbreaking work on the law of nations, in particular to the right of asylum and refugee law.  His monograph "Nationality and statelessness in international law" is a standard work.

He died on 6 February 1991 in Geneva.

For his work relating to the rights of refugees, Weis was awarded the Nansen Refugee Award posthumously in 1991.

Publications

Monographs

  • Nationality and statelessness in international law. Stevens, London 1956 (English).

Awards

  • 1991: Nansen Refugee Award (posthumously)
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