Hanns-Ekkehard Plöger

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Hanns-Ekkehard Plöger (born May 30, 1938 in Berlin ; † May 20, 2005 ibid) was a Berlin lawyer and notary who also became known outside Berlin as a joint plaintiff in the Honecker trial . The lawyer from Berlin-Lichtenrade has been described by the tabloid press as "Berlin's most dazzling lawyer", "avenger of the dead of the Wall" and "star lawyer".

Life

Hanns-Ekkehard Plöger's tombstone in the Lichtenrade cemetery

Plöger was an attorney for the accessory prosecution in the Politburo trial against Egon Krenz , Günter Schabowski u. a. as well as in the trial against Erich Honecker . Here he caused a stir when he questioned Honecker's identity. He also expressed doubts about Honecker's cancer and proposed that Honecker was instead infected by a fox tapeworm .

Plöger was not only known for his penchant for colorful clothing in the courtroom, but above all for his dispute. In February 2002 he filed a criminal complaint against the Federal Government and the Bundesbank for negligent bodily harm and negligent exposure to toxins due to the toxic substance TBT ( tributyltin ) found in German ten euro banknotes by the Öko-Test magazine . Previously, in 1999, in the course of the new building of the Apostolic Nunciature in the Neukölln district, he had unsuccessfully filed a lawsuit against Pope John Paul II .

Plöger had been a member of the Pegnese Flower Order since May 1st, 1995 . He was also President of the Berlin Motor Yacht Association, the Berlin Volleyball Association and 1997–2001 Vice President of the German Motor Yacht Association , as well as a member of the supervisory board of 1. FC Union Berlin . The lawyer also worked as a poet, in his Magnus publishing house he published several volumes of poetry under the title Tryst with related souls .

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  1. ↑ Prostate Cancer! The avenger of the Wall Dead died in the arms of his wife, Hanns-Ekkehard Plöger, Berlin's most dazzling lawyer, no longer pleads , BZ, May 23, 2005
  2. ↑ Hanns-Ekkehard Plöger . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 2005, pp. 178 ( online - May 30, 2005 ).
  3. ↑ A committed troublemaker. Scandal attorney Hanns-Ekkehard Plöger died at the age of 66 in Berliner Zeitung , May 23, 2005
  4. ↑ Honecker is released from prison in 1993 and flies to Chile Spiegel Online , January 11, 2013
  5. ^ Lawyer Plöger died of cancer , Potsdamer Latest News May 24, 2005
  6. ↑ Poisonous ten euro bills: Lawsuit against the government , Die Welt, February 27, 2002
  7. ^ Lawyer Plöger: Liebling Tempelhof is dead , Berliner Kurier, May 23, 2005 ( Memento from May 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ No. 1668 on the list on the website of the Order ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 22, 2009
  9. ↑ Homepage of the German Volleyball Association , accessed on October 8, 2018.
  10. ^ Backstage fights endanger the future of Union , Berliner Zeitung, July 12, 1997
  11. ↑ Back to the Stone Age or barefoot to the hell of civilization . (2003), From the life cycle of the two-legged friends (2002) and Schnuten und Knuten or life looked at the mouth (1995).
personal data
SURNAME Plöger, Hanns-Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and notary
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2005
Place of death Berlin