Heinz Nawratil
Heinz Nawratil (born 1937 in Zauchtel, Moravia) is a German lawyer, legal author and human rights scholar and activist. He is particularly known for his work on the expulsion of Germans after World War II, but is also for his widely distributed legal textbooks aimed at law students, lawyers and lay people alike. Born in Moravia, he is himself a survivor of the 1945 ethnic cleansing of Germans from his homeland.
Biography
After The Expulsion, he came as a refugee to Bavaria, where he grew up in Miesbach. He studied law, earned a doctorate and worked as a civil law notary. He has written legal textbooks, which are published by the Ewald-von-Kleist-Verlag, the Universitas Verlag and Ullstein, and which have been printed in over a million copies. He has also published scientific works on human rights, particularly The Expulsion. He has written a large number of articles for the journals Parlament and academia, and has contributed to an introduction to social psychology[1].
Nawratil is an active member of the Society for Threatened Peoples, a human rights NGO with advisory status at the United Nations. In 2007, he was part of a delegation of the Society for Threatened Peoples that visited Kurdistan.[2]
He has given lectures for the Society for Threatened Peoples, the Protestant Akademie Bad Boll, and been a guest of several Deutschlandfunk and RAI talk shows.
Selected publications
- BGB leicht gemacht, Ewald von Kleist-Verlag, 30th edition, 2008, ISBN 387440210X
- Der Kult mit der Schuld. Geschichte im Unterbewusstsein, Universitas Verlag, 3rd edition, 2006, ISBN 3800414392
- Die deutschen Nachkriegsverluste unter Vertriebenen, Gefangenen und Verschleppten, Ullstein, 1986, ISBN 3548330665, Neuauflage Ares-Verlag, Graz 2008, ISBN 978-3-902475-49-7
- Die Vertreibung der Deutschen : unbewältigte Vergangenheit Europas, Bund der Vertriebenen, 1991, ISBN 3-925103-47-3
- HGB leicht gemacht, Ewald von Kleist-Verlag, 21th edition, 2007, ISBN 3874402061
- Schwarzbuch der Vertreibung 1945 bis 1948. Das letzte Kapitel unbewältigter Vergangenheit, Universitas Verlag, 14th edition 2007, ISBN 3800413876
- Vertreibungsverbrechen an Deutschen. Tatbestand, Motive, Bewältigung, Ullstein, 5th edition 1987, ISBN 3548330843
Honours
- Förderpreis der Stiftung der Deutschen Gemeinden und Gemeindeverbände zur Förderung der Kommunalwissenschaften (1965)