Butz Peters

Butz Peters (born January 22, 1958 in Hanover ) is a German lawyer , moderator , journalist and author .

education

Butz Peters studied law with a minor in journalism at the universities of Hanover , Göttingen , Lausanne and Vienna . After completing an internship at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, he trained as a radio and television journalist in 1984.

journalist

Peters then worked in various editorial offices in public TV and radio, where he primarily dealt with the topics of crime and media law. In 1988 he received the journalism award of the Standing Conference of Interior Ministers and Senators for the best radio report on the subject of preventive crime prevention . In 1991 he was awarded the Nick Knatterton honor cap from the Association of German Detective Officers for special commitment in the field of crime prevention and control.

In 1993, Peters became managing director and editor-in-chief of the private broadcaster Antenne Sachsen . From 1997 to 2001 he moderated the ZDF show Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved by Eduard Zimmermann .

Lawyer

As a lawyer, Peters was a partner in Matthias Prinz's law firm in Hamburg from 1996 to 2001 and a member of the media law firm Brehm & v. Moers in Berlin. There he mainly dealt with the topics of media law and labor law . From 2012 to 2018 he was a partner in the law firm Heinemann & Peters in Dresden, which ceased its activity on July 1, 2018. Peters currently works for the Tiefenbacher law firm in Dresden. As a lawyer, he specializes in the law of parliamentary committees of inquiry, as well as civil law media and entertainment law, copyright and publishing law, as well as labor law in the media industry.

According to an article by Telepolis , Peters is regularly commissioned by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution to act as a witness when informants or informers' leaders are summoned as witnesses in trials or committees of inquiry.

RAF expert

Peters has written four books on the Red Army Faction . Most recently, in his book 1977 - RAF versus Federal Republic , he devotes himself to the events of 1977, which is considered to be the key year of the RAF terror.

Butz Peters is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the “Landshut” project , which accompanies the Dornier Museum in the development and implementation of the exhibition about the hijacking of the “Landshut” plane .

Works

• 1977 - RAF versus Federal Republic , Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-27678-5
• The last myth of the RAF: Who shot Wolfgang Grams? The Bad Kleinen disaster , Ullstein, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-550-07865-X .
• Deadly error. The history of the RAF , Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-87024-673-1 .
• TV and film production. Legal handbook , Baden-Baden 2003, ISBN 3-7890-8138-8
• Who's who in German law. Guide through the world of law , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50184-2
• Media law. Civil law claims , Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44853-4
• The creamer. Organized crime in the Federal Republic , Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-498-05273-X
• Manual of Working Time Law: The new Working Time Act 1994 , Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-7813-4507-6
• RAF. Terrorism in Germany , Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-421-06619-1 .
• The partnership mediation contract , Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-8204-9356-5

Web links

• Butz Peters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Butz Peters in the catalog of the German National Library
• Butz Peters on the website of the law firm Tiefenbacher

Individual evidence

1. ^ Note from the law firm Heinemann & Peters , accessed on October 10, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dr. Butz Peters. In : iefenbacher.de. Retrieved May 26, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Thomas Moser: NSU judge lets NSU committee run up . In: Telepolis, January 14, 2019
4. ↑ Butz Peters: 1977. RAF against Federal Republic - Perlentaucher. April 19, 2019. Retrieved April 19, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Landshut | The exhibition project. April 10, 2019, accessed April 10, 2019 .