Jürgen Roth (publicist)

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Jürgen Roth (* 4. November 1945 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 28. September 2017 ibid ) was a German journalist .

Life

After completing secondary school, Roth did an apprenticeship as a forwarding agent . In 1968 he got out and spent a year in Turkey. Since 1971 he has published books and television documentaries on organized crime with a focus on Eastern Europe , Germany and international terrorism . He was also active in the Business Crime Control organization . Roth was of the opinion that organized crime was deeply intertwined with the economic system and that it was part of economic life in Europe. Roth died after a serious illness in September 2017 at the age of 71.

Reception and legal proceedings

The Rheinische Post sees Roth as one of the “best experts on the subject.” However, he is considered a “controversial journalist and because of his polemics also controversial”, according to the Berliner Zeitung on July 9, 2009. Thomas Feltes , criminologist at the Ruhr University in Bochum , wrote about his publications: "Without his books the common reader would be missing something, and certainly also some investigators, who after their publication will greedily search for who is quoted, named or otherwise indirectly mentioned as there."

There were several legal proceedings against Roth because of his publications. Gerhard Schröder took legal action against the book Der Deutschland-Clan: The unscrupulous network of politicians, top managers and the judiciary , in which Roth also dealt with the former Federal Chancellor. The court ruled that Roth had to rewrite a passage in the book in which he linked Schröder's trip to the United Arab Emirates with his work for Gazprom . Schröder's lawyers tried, however, to prevent the sale of the new, uncontested issue by warning the booksellers. Roth had previously presented an excerpt of his research activities on the news portal Fair Observer .

After an injunction that the lawyer of a Leipzig restaurateur had obtained from the Leipzig Regional Court , the book Mafialand Germany had to be taken out of the book trade, after which it was only allowed to be sold with blackened passages.

Controversy

In February 2010, the former Bulgarian Minister of the Interior, Rumen Petkow , sued Jürgen Roth for defamation. Roth had linked Petkow to the Mafia and the illegal drug trade. On October 14, 2010, Roth was acquitted by the Sofia District Court and the allegation of defamation was dismissed.

From summer 2007, Roth wrote about an alleged sachsensumpf (assertion of membership in mafia structures at high politicians, lawyers, policemen and journalists.) Roth was by journalist Reiner Burger , of the sachsensumpf called a legend in a series of articles of the FAZ criticized. Burger also justified the criticism with previous lost court cases; According to Burger, Roth was sentenced to damages by the Hamburg Regional Court in 2000 for his book "Die graue Eminenz", published in 1999, and in 1999 for a television report. Burger threw Roth u. a. claim to have failed to speak directly to affected persons. In this context, Roth had to withdraw statements on his homepage about a Leipzig entrepreneur. The witness Roth relied on had said the untruth and was sentenced by the Dresden District Court in spring 2008 to a fine of 4,200 euros. Roth defended himself by stating that there was only one case where he had not asked the person directly for a blog entry, and criticized Burger's attacks as "kafkaesk" because Burger u. a. ignore that important witnesses in the "Saxon swamp" would be put under pressure. The investigative committee of the Saxon state parliament did not come to a clear conclusion about the "Saxon swamp" in 2009. The CDU and FDP see it as refuted, while the Greens and the Left state that they have not found any evidence, as the state government has largely refused access to the files. The prosecution did not investigate any further.

Publications

Television documentaries

  • The gray wolves are coming, WDR, 1982
  • Mafia and Co. Drugs and weapons smuggling in Europe, SFB, December 9, 1984
  • The dead in the Rhine. Foreign reporter, WDR, June 20, 1984
  • Asylum seekers report from a collection camp, ZDF 1984
  • Countdown to the coup, WDR 1986
  • Foreign reporter: Once upon a time there was an empire, WDR 1987
  • Operation Harvest, preparations for a coup in the Central African Republic , WDR, April 16, 1987
  • The mercenary island. Legionnaires conquer the Comoros , SDR 1988
  • High explosive, arms dealers unpack, ZDF, January 7, 1988
  • Death in Germany at Wald-Kraiburg , WDR, April 1989
  • The man from Damascus. Monzer Al Kassar , Tuesday, ZDF, October 16, 1990
  • In the realm of evil - The Moon sect , ZDF, August 1991
  • Hot goods for Frankfurt - criminal syndicates in Germany, ZDF, January 29, 1992
  • The Organ Robbers, ZDF, November 13, 1992

Book publications

  • Poverty in the Federal Republic. Descriptions, family stories, analyzes, documentation. Melzer, Frankfurt am Main 1971; New edition: Rowohlt, Reinbek 1979, ISBN 3-499-17259-3 .
  • Is the Federal Republic of Germany a police state? Melzer, Darmstadt 1972, ISBN 3-7874-0007-9 .
  • Partner Turkey or Torture for the Freedom of the West? (with Brigitte Heinrich). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1973, ISBN 3-499-11600-6 .
  • E.g. Frankfurt, the destruction of a city. Bertelsmann, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-570-02344-3 .
  • Uprising in wild Kurdistan. Signal, Baden-Baden 1977, ISBN 3-7971-0173-2 .
  • Geography of the Oppressed. The Kurds. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1978, ISBN 3-499-17125-2 .
  • Turkey - a republic among wolves. Lamuv, Bornheim 1981, ISBN 3-921521-24-6 .
  • "It's just like that ..." Reports from everyday misery. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982, ISBN 3-499-17401-4 .
  • Dark men of power. Political secret circles and organized crime (with Berndt Ender). Lamuv, Bornheim 1984, ISBN 3-88977-007-X .
    • Reissued as: The Censored Book. Political Mafia business and crime. IBDK, Berlin 1987; 3rd ext. A. 1995, ISBN 3-922601-25-1 .
  • Time bomb poverty. Social Reality in the Federal Republic. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-89136-016-9 .
  • Broker of death. Arms dealers unpack. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-89136-065-7 .
  • Rambo. The mercenaries - a report by Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89136-147-5 .
  • The illegal German arms deals and their international ties. 100 years of the war cartel. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-8218-1118-8 .
  • The midnight government. Report on the power of the secret services. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-366-4 .
  • The criminal holding. The united Europe under the grip of the Mafia (with Marc Frey). Piper, Munich 1992; New edition 1995, ISBN 3-492-11871-2 .
  • The swamp. Corruption in Germany. Piper, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-492-03805-0 .
  • The Russian mafia. The most dangerous criminal syndicate in the world. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-89136-545-4 .
  • Crash. The end of our prosperity. Piper, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-492-03657-0 .
  • The red bosses. Russia's tycoons are taking power in Europe. Piper, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-492-03867-0 .
  • The Gray Eminence. The network of diplomats, gangsters and politicians. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-455-11276-5 .
  • Dirty hands. How the western states cooperate with the drug mafia. Bertelsmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-570-00116-4 .
  • Networks of terror. Europa, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-203-81529-X .
  • The oligarch. Vadim Rabinovich breaks the silence. Europa, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-203-81527-3 .
  • Real criminals. Millions, power and contract killing. Europa, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-203-81528-1 .
  • The gangsters from the east. New ways of crime. Europa, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-203-81526-5 .
  • Investigate prohibited! Why the police gave up fighting crime. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-8218-5588-6 .
  • The Germany clan. The unscrupulous network of politicians, top managers and the judiciary. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-8218-5613-0 .
  • Unwanted charges. Corruption and arbitrariness in the German judiciary (with Rainer Nübel and Rainer Fromm ). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-8218-5667-4 .
  • Mafialand Germany. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-8218-5632-2 .
  • Gangster economy. How organized crime is buying us up. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-8218-5680-3 .
  • Unfair play. How corrupt managers, unscrupulous officials and gamblers rule the sport. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-8218-6508-9 .
  • Gazprom - the creepy empire . Westend, Frankfurt am Main 2012; Piper, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-30336-1 .
  • Spider web of power. How the political and economic elite are destroying our country. Econ, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-430-20134-6 .
  • The silent coup. How a secret elite from business and politics is snatching Europe and our country under the nail. Heyne, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-453-20027-2 .
  • Sealing Act of S. Smolensk, MH17 and Putin's War in Ukraine. Econ, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-430-20162-9 .
  • The deep state. The infiltration of democracy by secret services, political accomplices and the right-wing mob. Heyne, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-453-20113-2 .
  • Dirty democracy. Hollowed - Exploited - Wiped Out? Ecowin, Wals near Salzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-711-00094-1 .
  • The new godparents. Trump, Putin, Erdogan, Orbán & Co. Heyne, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-453-20189-7 .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Roth  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lpb-bw.de
  2. ^ Ambros Waibel: Obituary for the journalist Jürgen Roth . Old school . In: the daily newspaper , October 3, 2017.
  3. ^ Rheinische Post. February 10, 2009.
  4. ↑ polizeitrainer-konferenz.de ( Memento from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Schröder vs bookseller , sueddeutsche.de , June 17, 2008.
  6. ↑ fairobserver.com
  7. ^ Temporary injunction on Mafialand Germany by Jürgen Roth , Boersenblatt.net of March 31, 2009.
  8. ↑ See: Jürgen Roth: Ungemach aus Sofia ; Jurgen Roth: My Life Is in Danger in Bulgaria
  9. ↑ World compact
  10. ↑ Thomas Datt, Arndt Ginzel: " Dangerous Traces ", Die ZEIT of November 16, 2007
  11. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Drawn in the dirt , June 26, 2009.
  12. ↑ See: Reiner Burger, FAZ April 3, 2008 p. 44: The Saxony swamp has dried up. - and - Reiner Burger, FAZ.net: "Media legend" Sachsen-Sumpf ": That is fatally reminiscent of the Sebnitz case" - and - Jürgen Roth: Why do you think FAZ journalist Reiner Burger receives a medal? ( Memento from September 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  13. ↑ Jürgen Roth: A clever medium reflects on the Saxon swamp and finally the truth about the Saxon swamp from the pen of Reiner Burger with reference to judicial affairs in Saxony , April 2, 2008, Süddeutsche Zeitung ( Memento from December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Young World: Order for Hot Air , July 10, 2009
  15. ^ ZEIT online: Premature acquittal , June 27, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 28th September 2017
Place of death Frankfurt am Main