Heinrich Senfft

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Heinrich Senfft (born April 26, 1928 in Stuttgart ; † January 14, 2017 in Berlin ) was a well-known German media lawyer and publicist .

Life

Senfft's second stepfather was Friedrich Sieburg . He did not do military service because of jaundice . After graduating from high school in Freudenstadt in 1946 , he studied history and philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (with Theodor Eschenburg, among others ) and law at the universities of Mainz, Hamburg and Tübingen. In 1956 he was in Hans Dölle at the Law and Economics Faculty of the University of Tübingen with a dissertation The domestic and professional work of the wife in gender equality for Dr. iur. PhD. In 1957 he passed the second state examination in law.

From 1957 to 1959 he was an associate lawyer for Die Zeit and the Stern and a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. In 1959/60 he studied Anglo-American law at the University of California, Berkeley . Since 1961 he worked as a lawyer in Hamburg (or London ). He advised u. a. the time and the star ; His clients included personalities such as Romy Schneider , Christo and Jeanne-Claude , Markus Wolf , Gregor Gysi , Peter-Michael Diestel , Hermann Kant and Egon Krenz . Senfft was friends with the publicist Günter Gaus .

Senfft was married to Erika Ludin (1933–1998) for the first time. Her father Hanns Ludin was the representative of the German Reich in the Slovak state , a committed National Socialist and a Nazi war criminal who was executed after the Second World War. Senfft's daughter Alexandra (* 1961), former Middle East advisor for the Greens, works as a journalist and publicist.

Fonts (selection)

  • Judges and other citizens. 150 years of political justice and new German rule journalism (= writings of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century . Vol. 8). Greno, Nördlingen 1988 ISBN 3-89190-957-8
  • Happiness is doable. The Bavarian casino process, the CSU and the unstoppable rise of Dr. Friedrich Zimmermann. A political lesson . Kiepenheuer u. Witsch, Cologne 1988 ISBN 3-462-01940-6
  • No farewell to Hitler. A look behind the facades of the "Historikerstreits" (= small historical library . Vol. 2). Foundation for the Social History of the 20th Century , Hamburg 1989 ISBN 3-927106-01-1
  • Scorn in court. Protection of privacy and public opinion in Germany (= Göttinger Sudelblätter ). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-89244-063-8 .
  • The so-called reunification . Rowohlt, Berlin 1999 ISBN 3-87134-388-9

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zeitspiegel: Heinrich Senfft 80. In: Die Zeit. No. 18, April 24, 2008, p. 2. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  2. ↑ Christian Schertz: Obituary for Heinrich Senfft: Master of his class . In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 17, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ Political, but not a politician. Obituary. Gregor Gysi about Heinrich Senfft, who was both: a lawyer and a good friend. In: Friday of January 26th, 2017, p. 4. viewed online here [1] on May 26th, 2017.
  4. ↑ Bettina Gaus : Obituary for Heinrich Senfft: One who did not like witch hunts. In: taz.de. January 16, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ Alexandra Senfft with the pearl diver
  6. ^ Doja Hacker: Biographies: The deadly guilt . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 2007, p. 180-182 ( online ). Quote: "Alexandra Senfft, granddaughter of the Hitler envoy in Slovakia, Hanns Ludin, wrote down the life of her mother, who perished because of the suppressed family history."
personal data
SURNAME Mustard, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2017
Place of death Berlin