Andreas Beuth

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Andreas Beuth (born May 14, 1953 ) is a German lawyer and criminal defense attorney in Hamburg . He is considered a lawyer for the left scene and is one of the legal representatives of the Rote Flora .

Career

Beuth grew up in what is now Norderstedt . In the 1970s he began training as an administrative clerk, which he did not complete. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1983. Already in the aftermath of the 1968 student movement he was politically active, but never belonged to any party. During his legal clerkship in 1981, he was confronted with the death of the alleged RAF member Sigurd Debus in the Fuhlsbüttel correctional facility , which he said had a lasting impact on him.

Legal and political activities

He established his reputation as a persistent defender in the early 1990s in the so-called paving process . When, in 1991, two activists of the Rote Flora were charged with attempted murder and dangerous interference in rail traffic , because they were supposed to have laid concrete slabs on the railroad tracks at Pinneberg , Beuth was able to prove in 58 days of negotiations that there had been a mix-up and in March 1993 he was acquitted . Beuth found a wider public as the plaintiff's lawyer in the trial against the then magistrate and later Hamburg Interior Senator Ronald Schill in autumn 2000, with whom he was confronted again in 2003 due to his commitment to the preservation of the Bambule car park .

After the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 , Beuth defended opponents of globalization who were accused of membership in a terrorist organization . The Federal Court of Justice declared the raids against the G8 opponents ordered by the investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice at the request of the Federal Public Prosecutor to be unlawful due to the lack of federal jurisdiction and did not classify the association possibly formed by the accused as terrorist. The proceedings were eventually dropped because there was insufficient suspicion to be charged.

In 2010, proceedings were opened against Andreas Beuth himself for violating the Weapons Act. In a court hearing, as part of the hearing of a witness, he had presented the holder of a signal transmitter as evidence, which, according to the prosecution , would also have required the lawyer to have a gun license. In November 2011, Beuth was acquitted by the Hamburg District Court. The device was shown with the consent of the negotiating judge, who has domiciliary rights in his meeting room. By many lawyers, the proceedings were seen as a carriage back by the public prosecutor and an "attack on the free lawyer".

As a longstanding lawyer for the graffiti sprayer Oz , Beuth was at times the focus of media attention. Beuth was a defense attorney in the so-called pirate trial before the Hamburg district court, which, with 105 days of trial between 2010 and 2012, is one of the longest in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.

In 2014, Beuth became publicly involved in the alleged attacks on the Davidwache in Hamburg St. Pauli, which were also in connection with the establishment and removal of the danger areas in Hamburg in January 2014 .

On July 8th, Beuth told the NDR about the violent riots and looting in the Schanzenviertel during the G20 summit in Hamburg 2017 :

“We as the autonomous and I as the spokesman for the autonomous have a certain sympathy for such actions, but please not in our own neighborhood where we live. So why not somehow in Pöseldorf or Blankenese, so there is also a great lack of understanding that people in the Schanzenviertel are dismantling their own businesses. "

The Hamburg Bar Association condemned "[t] this disgusting expression of sympathy and the concealed, malicious invitation to commit such acts (also) in other parts of the city". Olaf Scholz , Hamburg's First Mayor , explained that anyone making such a statement should "not be surprised if you call them a spiritual arsonist."

On July 10, Beuth gave a new assessment of the riots and looting to the Hamburger Abendblatt :

“I expressed myself ambiguously and was misunderstood. I want to state very clearly: Such actions are meaningless violence and have crossed a line. I dissociate myself as strongly as possible from what happened there on Friday evening. We are also stunned by the events. "

documentary

The documentary Das has little to do with justice , which was filmed by the filmmakers Frank Brenneke and Andreas Grützner about Beuth, premiered at the “Documentary Film Week Hamburg” in April 2011 in the Metropolis Kino and then ran in cinemas in Hamburg, Hanover and Berlin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Gaston cherry: With black leather cap for justice. In: taz.de . June 23, 2011, accessed July 10, 2017 .
  2. Thekla Ahrens: Africa is somewhere . Interview with Andreas Beuth. In: Hinz & Kunzt . No. 156 , February 2006 ( hinzundkunzt.de ).
  3. Jürgen Engelmann: The "Plattenleger" process . In: Festschrift 75 Years of the Regional Court and Public Prosecutor's Office in Itzehoe 1937–2012 , pp. 114–118, here p. 117.
  4. Peggy Parnass : Courage and Passion. Konkret Literatur Verlag, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3894581212 , p. 70 ff.
  5. Stephanie Lamprecht: Judge Ronald B. Schill in the dock: Testimony? Only in front of the camera! . In: Hamburger Morgenpost online . September 19, 2000.
  6. Ira von Mellenthin : Judge Schill brings prosecution in distress . In: Welt Online . September 19, 2000.
  7. Ira von Mellenthin, Martin Kopp: Bambule conflict divides Hamburg's government . In: Welt Online . February 26, 2003.
  8. According to the "Bild" campaign: Death threats against Bambule . In: taz.de . December 28, 2002.
  9. ^ Markus Deggerich, Markus Dettmer, Holger Stark, Andreas Ulrich: Showdown on the Baltic Sea . In: Spiegel Online . May 14, 2007.
  10. BGH, decision of December 20, 2007 - StB 12/07, 13/07 and 47/07 , press release No. 3/08
  11. Proceedings against opponents of globalization discontinued . In: Welt Online . October 2, 2008.
  12. ^ Martin Jenssen: acquittal for lawyer . In: Welt Online . November 8, 2011.
  13. Christoph Twickel: Hamburger Sprayer-Myth: The Magic of OZ . In: Spiegel Online. February 3, 2011.
  14. Christian Jakob: Pirate Trial in Hamburg: "Fluchthelfer" in the district court . In: taz.de . August 16, 2011.
  15. Dominik Brück: Lawyer doubts the second attack on Davidwache . In: Stern.de . January 6, 2014.
  16. Kersten Augustin: 50,000 Hamburgers under general suspicion . In: Zeit Online . January 6, 2014.
  17. According to G20: 51 people in custody. In: NDR.de . July 11, 2017. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .
  18. Franz Rohleder: Interview with NDR: Rote Flora lawyer: G20 riots okay, but not in the left quarter , Merkur.de , July 8, 2017
  19. Dennis Betzholz : Bar Association: "Disgusting expressions of sympathy put us to shame" . In: Welt Online . July 10, 2017.
  20. Debate on the Rote Flora Autonomous Center - “We cannot allow such spaces”. In: Spiegel Online. July 16, 2017. Retrieved July 16, 2017 .
  21. Christoph Heinemann: Flora lawyer: I share political responsibility. In: Hamburger Abendblatt online. July 10, 2017. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .
  22. That has little to do with justice . Documentary Film Week Hamburg 2011.