Rainer René Count Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden

Rainer René Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , born as René Freiherr von Godin , (born April 18, 1948 in Wartaweil ) is a former German lawyer , founder of the Association of German Legionaries and the Christian Association for the Promotion of Families , an agency for arranging the adoption of unborn children, and an organ donation trade . He also ran a number of other businesses, such as The Competition Observer and the Central Committee for General Compliance with Higher Court Jurisprudence in Competition Matters , both of which served to pick up small mistakes made by businesspeople in advertisements and to penalize them or to take them to court for violations of competition law bring.

biography

René von Godin is the son of the Bavarian lawyer Hans Wilhelm von Godin (* 1918 in Schwerin ). In 1973 he married Michaela Countess Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (* 1953), the daughter of Wolfram Maria Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1915–1994), the fourth oldest son of Sigmund Maria Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden . The couple had ten children, four sons and six daughters, who were born between 1974 and 1988. Between 1980 and 1999 Godin officially carried the name Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden. In the mid-1980s, the couple resided in the village of Sentenhart in the south of Baden-Württemberg.

Adelmann studied law in France . The Bavarian State Ministry of Justice canceled his license to practice law in 1982 because he had shown himself to be unworthy of a lawyer. Adelmann brought the case to the Federal Court of Justice , but ultimately decided himself to suspend his approval.

After he did not succeed in becoming a Catholic deacon because he was a member of the Young Socialists , the youth organization of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , Adelmann founded his own church, the Archdiocese of Munich, the Holy Catholic Orthodox Evangelical Church of the Holy Apostle Matthew , and created his own offices within this church. At the same time he also ran a funeral business at the time . In addition, he went into business with asylum seekers in Germany and suggested that they combine this with his organ donation business if they did not have enough funds to finance their asylum application.

Because of his role in trafficking in asylum seekers and because he provided them with false papers, Adelmann was sentenced to 15 months probation in 1992. The weekly newspaper Die Zeit described him as a "businessman without scruples". He was primarily active during the 1980s, when he drew media attention at the time, but did not do so to the same extent after his conviction in 1992. He describes himself as a "man of many ideas". For a while Adelmann ran a wine shop in Berlin near the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz .

After meeting a physically abused woman in Spain in 1999 , he decided to subject himself to gender reassignment measures . From then on he called himself Latina Irene Freifrau von Godin and founded the feminist party Civilization Féminine , with which he wanted to change the legal and social order “from a male to a female basis”. In November 2002, Godin took over the management of LATINA LAVAPIES Verlags GmbH in Berlin-Moabit from his wife . Since February 2011 the forwarding company Compact Transport GmbH has been operating under the same address , which emerged from the takeover of the financially troubled Hindelang Transport GmbH based in Wörnitz and whose managing director is Godin. By taking over a small part of the claims, he was able to obtain a waiver of the remaining claims on the former company, which left numerous carriers with unpaid freight bills. One month later, the Wörnitzer Combi & Co Autohandelsgesellschaft mbH also relocated there. Godin was its managing director until May 2013. In 2015, in the course of the insolvency proceedings of Compact Transport GmbH , the Charlottenburg district court reached a settlement with Unicredit Bank , which was submitted to the creditors' meeting for approval.

In 2013 Godin lived in Altenburg and in Jestetten on the border between Germany and Switzerland . In 2010, he founded the Schwarzenhorn family archive in nearby Schaffhausen in order to counteract the “ proletarianization of the descendants” of his paternal grandmother, Hilda Schmidt von Schwarzenhorn (1888–1976).

Association of German Legionaries

In the early 1980s Adelmann founded the Association of German Legionaries for the purpose of recruiting legionnaires from Germany for use in Asian and African countries. German law prohibits the recruitment of German citizens for military service in foreign countries, and even the attempt is punishable with a penalty of up to five years in prison. Adelmann considered this law to be invalid because, in his opinion, it violated the freedom of choice of occupation enshrined in the German constitution . He ran this business through Terfina Vermögensverwaltungs-GmbH and contacted foreign, predominantly Asian and African embassies and governments with the intention of building a clientele.

In 1985 Adelmann had more than 400 applications from former Bundeswehr soldiers and unemployed adventurers who had been approached by newspaper advertisements. In 1985 he claims that an African country has expressed an interest in protecting an oil pipeline. He also claimed to have received expressions of interest from Mozambique for personnel to protect the Cahora Bassa dam . He saw an opportunity to refer personnel to developing countries who still needed corrections to their borders and governments, but who lacked qualified personnel to handle modern weapons. His original plan was to recruit a platoon of 50 mercenaries, who were to be led by a number of retired Bundeswehr sergeants .

To join the Association of German Legionaries (BDL), one had to pay DM 20 membership fee, followed by another DM 20 annual membership fee. In return, Adelmann promised combat training in Belgium and target practice in Switzerland . His new recruits should "learn to kill". In this regard, he saw great potential in 18-year-olds. It also guaranteed the return of fallen "heroes" to Germany and a worthy, honorable memory.

Christian Association for Family Promotion

Another business that Adelmann ran was the Christian Family Support Association , intended for childless parents interested in adopting unborn babies. The association was officially closed in the mid-1980s, but continued with its activities. Adelmann asked for up to DM 32,000 for a successful adoption, with part of the money going to the child's mother. The Konstanz Public Prosecutor's Office investigated the deal, but could not bring it to court because it did not violate any existing law at the time. It was declared that Adelmann had found a loophole in the law.

At the beginning of 1988 he opened an adoption agency in Frankfurt am Main , but had to close it following an order from the Lord Mayor. That business suffered a temporary setback when his aunt was arrested in Manila for kidnapping , but later recovered.

Organ donation

In his organ donation business, Adelmann approached people who had to take an oath of disclosure and whose names were therefore published in the Federal Gazette . He offered to help them recover financially and wanted to pay up to 80,000 DM for a kidney , depending on the quality of the organ. The operation was to take place in France . Adelmann claimed that organ donation was legal, despite both French and German medical professionals speaking out against the process. In France, organ donation from living donors was accepted at the time, provided that no money was received. Adelmann simply hid the full truth from the clinic in charge and was able to continue with the business. He later stated that no operations had taken place. In 1989 he tried to expand his activities to the UK and managed to locate a number of willing donors there, offering between US $ 30,000 and 50,000 per kidney, with the intention of a 20% net profit on each operation. After the first contact, however, the potential donors did not hear from him. A short time later, the UK Parliament banned the sale of human organs for the purpose of transplantation.

In 1989 Adelmann's activities caused a request in the German Bundestag to tighten the organ donation law and to shorten the lengthy donation process. A number of parliamentarians from the Social Democratic Party asked what the federal government was going to do about Adelmann's activities.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Mercenaries - Learn to kill . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1985, pp. 128 ( Online - Oct. 7, 1985 , Access: December 4, 2010).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Hustle and bustle in the organ office Die Zeit , September 30, 1988, access: December 4, 2010
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} affairs - new origins . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1983, pp. 69-75 ( Online - Feb. 28, 1983 , Access: December 4, 2010).
4. ↑ Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , accessed on February 19, 2017 (English)
5. ↑ Feminism: And eternal beckons women , Tagesspiegel of February 22, 2001
6. ↑ A lot of money for a monkey ride . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1989, pp. 53-64 ( Online - May 22, 1989 , Access: December 4, 2010).
7. ^ Graf condemns ( memento of February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Hamburger Abendblatt (subscription required for full text), November 26, 1992, access: December 4, 2010
8. ^ Godin Latina Irene in the Commercial Register , accessed February 19, 2017
9. ↑ Insolvency proceedings Compact Transport GmbH , accessed on February 19, 2017
10. ↑ Dispute over dogs escalates , accessed on February 19, 2017
11. ↑ Latina Irene Freifrau von Godin - professional career, place of residence and hometown
12. ↑ Organ Selling organselling.com, accessed December 4, 2010
13. ↑ Sales of Kidneys Prompt New Laws and Debate The New York Times , August 1, 1989. Access: December 4, 2010
14. ↑ Improvement of the requirements for organ transplants (PDF; 366 kB) Bundestag website, September 18, 1989, access: December 4, 2010