Jürgen Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger

Jürgen Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger (* 1941 ) is a German-Austrian lawyer. In the GDR he was director of the Berlin-Lichtenberg district court . In 1992 he went into hiding and settled abroad.

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Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger was born in Austria. He was a judge in the GDR and later became director of the Berlin-Lichtenberg district court.

In his function as a GDR judge, he sentenced GDR civil rights activists to prison terms in order to subsequently drive up the prices for the release of prisoners to the Federal Republic of those convicted by him . Finally he dived into the underground with a few million D-Marks that he helped to squeeze out.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger received a license to practice as a lawyer and notary on the basis of the regulation on the activity and admission of lawyers with their own practice of February 22, 1990 . He was accepted as a cooperation partner in the Boesebeck Barz law firm . His first significant client was Manfred Seidel , deputy to KoKo boss Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski . The collaboration with Boesebeck Barz was ended a little later after Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger had taken over the mandate as defense lawyer for the former Stasi chief Erich Mielke at the Moabit Criminal Court .

Furthermore, Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger was the legal representative of KoKo employee Günther Forgber in the assessment proceedings of the Treuhandanstalt about the Günther Forgber company as state property of the GDR or private company. Forgber, who first founded the new company Forgimpex in East Berlin from 1990, which he renamed Inhafo GmbH shortly afterwards, set up a new company network in 1991 with the support of Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger, including Export-Contact AG in Zurich and Export-Import Handels AG in Zug and Export-Contact Handelsgesellschaft in Vienna, through which he acquired real estate in Frankfurt a. M. bought.

During Mielke process was Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger on 10 February 1992 by Kornelia Voigt, which he in 1977 as a judge for participating in a spontaneous demonstration on October 7, 1977 at Alexanderplatz to 16 months in prison for "hooliganism" (§ 215 Criminal Code of GDR ), slapped publicly in the stairwell of the Moabit court. On February 15, 1992, Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger's property was burgled and, among other things, copies of court files were stolen. After a total of 26 preliminary proceedings against Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger were pending in 1992 on suspicion of perversion of the law and deprivation of liberty and an arrest warrant for aiding and abetting infidelity had been issued, he fled abroad.

On March 23, 2001, Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger was sentenced in absentia to return a property appropriated by exploiting a predicament. In 1983 he had bought a house in Berlin-Mahlsdorf from an inmate who was in Lichtenberg prison, which was part of Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger's area of ​​responsibility. A short time later, the prisoner was allowed to leave for the Federal Republic.

The international arrest warrant was overturned in August 2001 due to the statute of limitations on the offenses.

After Forgber's fatal accident in 2006, Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger is the only person who can provide information about the whereabouts of the Forgber Group's funds. His whereabouts are unknown; he is said to have been living in a suburb of Belgrade since 2003 .

Web links

• Thomas Scheuner: The millions of the Mielke lawyer. In: Focus magazine. No. 43 (1999).
• Roland Jahn : From legal flexor to lawyer

Individual evidence

1. ^ "We against us" D-Mark for GDR doping faz.net September 3, 2010.
2. ^ Entry on Lovells. In: Reinhard Pöllath, Ingo Saenger (Hrsg.): 200 years of business lawyers in Germany. Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4446-9 [ online ( memento from February 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )].
3. ^ The breakdown of Kitzbühel . In: Berliner Zeitung. 4th January 1996.
4. ↑ Purgatory of the Past . In: Der Spiegel. 2/1992.
5. ↑ Cold courtesy - Mielke's defense attorney Wetzenstein-Ollenschläger must fear being brought to justice himself . In: Der Spiegel. 9/1992.
6. ↑ The fugitive Mielke lawyer has to return his house in Mahlsdorf . In: Berliner Zeitung. March 24, 2001.