Gerhard Hardle

Gerhard Härdle (born August 5, 1941 in Karlsruhe ) is a lawyer in Heidelberg specializing in immigration and asylum law as well as criminal and criminal procedure law . A trial against him attracted more attention nationwide in 1979 and later.

education

Gerhard Härdle graduated from the Helmholtz-Realgymnasium in Karlsruhe in 1960 and then completed his military service until 1961 . He finished his law studies at Heidelberg University , which he began in the summer semester of 1961, with the first state examination in law . The legal preparatory service for court trainees , which he performed in Baden-Württemberg from 1966 , he interrupted for 14 months to study at the École nationale d'administration in Paris . Later he was again in France to prepare his dissertation .

job

At the end of 1970, Gerhard Härdle passed the legal assessor examination after he had already been the personal assistant to the Rector of Heidelberg University Rolf Rendtorff since October 1970 . After his resignation, Gerhard Härdle worked together with Eberhard Kempf as a lawyer, mainly as a defense attorney for left-wing students or members of the Communist League of West Germany (KBW), to which both belong. The focus of their activities were demonstration offenses or other political crimes . Both were considered defense lawyers by the Heidelberg courts , who exhausted the possibilities of the code of criminal procedure in favor of their clients to the utmost. Mayor Reinhold Zundel called both “ so-called lawyers ” until he was forbidden by a court of law.

Condemnation

Gerhard Härdle was sentenced to probation and a fine in 1978 because of a tussle at a KBW stand during the 1976 federal election campaign , in which a police officer had received a bump . The appeal of this judgment in early 1979 was combined with a trial for an unfair testimony in favor of an expelled student. The trial, which was scheduled for five days, ended on the 48th day of the trial with a one-year and ten-month prison sentence that was not suspended.

Many observers and commentators agreed that this was intended to drive a left-wing lawyer out of the legal profession because of his political views. The appeal filed by Gerhard Härdle was rejected by the Federal Court of Justice in February 1981, a constitutional complaint was not accepted and a petition to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg was unsuccessful, so that he had to serve a prison sentence . During his imprisonment, G. Härdle worked as an outdoor prisoner at the law firm Erwin Fischer .

publication

• The ordinance law of the French executive according to the constitution of the Fifth Republic , Heidelberg, University, Faculty of Law, dissertation from 1972

literature

• Dr. Härdle accused in court of honor . In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (RNZ) No. 242 of October 19, 1977, p. 3
• it: events at KBW information stands. Heidelberg attorney charged in court with resistance . In: RNZ , December 7, 1977, p. 5
• it: Convicted of breach of the peace and resistance . In: RNZ , February 24, 1978, p. 3
• From tomorrow trial against lawyer Dr. Hardle . In: RNZ No. 25 January 1979, p. 5
• GO: One year and ten months for Dr. Hardle . In: RNZ , May 30, 1979, p. 3
• hws: The verdict against attorney Härdle has to fall. Federal Court of Justice rejects appeal in urgent proceedings / constitutional complaint announced . In: Kommunistische Volkszeitung (KVZ) No. 10 of March 2, 1981, p. 2
• Jürgen Busche : When a defense attorney is charged elsewhere. A decision by the Federal Court of Justice may give rise to a constitutional complaint . In: FAZ , March 27, 1981, p. 12
• Peter Henkel: Justice on the warpath? Heidelberg judges take heavy punishments against members and friends of the KBW . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 2, 1981, p. 24
• Hanno Kühnert: Too rigorous and aggressive. The strange way the judiciary dealt with the lawyer Gerhard Härtel . In: Die Zeit , No. 25, 1981, p. 12
• gkr: Härdle's petition rejected despite support . In: KVZ No. 41 of October 9, 1981, p. 2
• Affairs: Back without a word . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1981, pp. 58–59 ( online - Justice in Heidelberg: Why a leftist lawyer has to go to jail for 22 months for a trivial matter).
• Defense rights at risk: the case of Dr. Härdle - Documentation , Heidelberg [a. a.]: Lawyers' Initiative 1981
• Rolf Gramm: No professional ban for left-wing lawyers. Heidelberg district court may appeal against Gerhard Härdle no representation ban imposed that decides the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court / The the KBW related lawyer in 1979 to 20 months jail sentenced . In: taz , September 29, 1987, p. 4
• Hellmut Brunn, Thomas Kirn: Lawyers - Linksanwälte . Eichborn , Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-8218-5586-X (including a short section on G. Härdle pp. 239–240)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ -os: No "so-called lawyers". KBW lawyers Härdle / Kempf successful at the VGH against the city . In: RNZ , 13./14. November 1976, p. 5
2. ↑ Public prosecutor rejects prolongation of detention for Heidelberg lawyer . In: Die Neue , November 6, 1981, p. 5