Herbert Güthlein

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Herbert Güthlein (born March 25, 1935 in Selb ; † December 13, 2018 ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and lawyer .

Güthlein, who was a Roman Catholic , graduated from high school in Bamberg and then studied economics, law and political science. At the same time he attended a language and interpreting school in Erlangen . After the first state examination in 1960 in Würzburg and the legal clerkship in Würzburg, Bamberg and Bayreuth, he passed the Great State Examination in Würzburg in 1964. Since September 1965 he worked as an independent lawyer in Bamberg. Güthlein was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament for the SPD from 1970 to 1974 . There he was a member of the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Local Affairs. From 1978 to 1996 he was a member of the Bamberg City Council, in 1979 he ran unsuccessfully for the European Parliament . He was also a member of the Bavarian Constitutional Court from 1978 to 1994 .

In the 1990s, Güthlein was charged with inciting perverse law and was acquitted in the first instance by the Bamberg Regional Court . He is said to have got a magistrate, with whom he was friends since studying together, to suspend an arrest warrant against a client of Güthlein without legal grounds. In December 1996, however, the Federal Court of Justice, acting as a revision instance, acquitted Güthlein again of the charge of inciting to pervert the law.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://trauer.infranken.de/trauerbeispiel/herbert-guethlein
  2. Justice: "Here everyone carts" . Focus Online. October 5, 1998. Retrieved November 10, 2017.