Benedikt Hopmann

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Benedikt Hopmann December 2018

Benedikt Hopmann (born August 11, 1949 in Münster ) is a German politician of the Alternative List and lawyer . He became known nationwide as a lawyer in the Emmely case .

Life

Hopmann grew up in Münster, Westphalia. After attending school, Hopmann first lived as a street musician in the early 1970s . He then moved to Berlin and began working as an unskilled worker for the Deutsche Telefonwerke. This was followed by a job as a welder in wagon construction and finally training as a fitter . He campaigned against a wave of redundancies for operational reasons . As a result, he was elected to the works council at the beginning of the 1980s and finally chairman of the works council. Hopmann advocated the introduction of the 35-hour week there. He was involved in tenant advice in Berlin-Kreuzberg . In 1980 he was then elected to the district assembly and finally as a member of the Berlin House of Representatives. In 1989/1990 he was the parliamentary group spokesman for the Alternative List for Work and Companies in the House of Representatives. After reunification, he left the House of Representatives in 1991.

Benedikt Hopmann can be found with journalistic contributions in the young world , in taz and in New Germany .

Practice as a lawyer

Hopmann began studying law at the Free University of Berlin at the age of 45 and became a lawyer after completing his legal clerkship and the second state examination . He mainly works in the field of labor law.

Benedikt Hopmann initially worked for a large law firm for two years, but then went into business for himself with a partner. He represented the cashier, known as " Emmely ", who lost her job due to a suspected dismissal due to the possible embezzlement of deposit receipts valued at € 1.30 . In 2010 he finally won the Federal Labor Court . In another case, he represented a geriatric nurse who had been dismissed because of public criticism of internal abuses at her employer. After the nurse had already failed before the Federal Labor Court and the Federal Constitutional Court had rejected her constitutional complaint, Hopmann successfully sued the European Court of Human Rights . On July 21, 2011, the European Court of Human Rights found that the caregiver's right to freedom of expression had been violated.

Publications

  • with Barbara Emme and Reinhold Niemerg: "Emmely" and the consequences - about small "victories" thanks to great solidarity. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89965-516-2 .
  • with Brigitte Heinisch: geriatric nurse sounds the alarm - about the right to report grievances. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89965-515-5 .
  • with Karl Kamp and Klaus Schroeder: We are not bargains - employees in social services also need collective agreements. Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89965-566-7 .
  • with Frieder Böhne, Günter Watermeier and Peter Wegner: The Unfinished Revolution - Coordination "Unfinished Revolution 1918". Berlin October 2018.

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 189.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See for example: More rights through breaking the law. The climate movement is calling for an international strike on September 20, in: Junge Welt, July 5, 2019.
  2. ^ A b c Claudia von Zglinicki: Clever from experience. In: Ver.di PUBLIK . Edition 01/02
  3. ↑ Daniela Kuhr: The man behind Emmely. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 10, 2010.
  4. ↑ Court overturns termination. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 10, 2010.
  5. ↑ Even the weak can be powerful. In: Der Tagesspiegel . July 21, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Hopmann, Benedikt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (alternative list) and lawyer, MdA
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster