Klaus Eschen
Klaus Eschen (born September 6, 1939 ) is a German lawyer and photographer.
Klaus Eschen, the son of the prominent Berlin reportage photographer Fritz Eschen , experienced as a child how his father, as a Jew, was persecuted by the ruling National Socialists and forced into forced labor. In 1943, the already arrested father narrowly escaped deportation after the non-Jewish mother took part in a protest demonstration in front of the Gestapo headquarters. In 1944 Eschen's brother Thomas died after being denied the necessary treatment for his appendicitis as a “half-Jew”.
Eschen, who supported his father in his resumption of photographic work after the war, initially also worked as a journalistic photographer until he became a lawyer in Berlin in 1967 after completing his legal training. In 1969, together with Horst Mahler and Hans-Christian Ströbele, he founded the Socialist Lawyers' Collective , a law firm that gained notoriety for defending members of the RAF . After the dissolution of the Socialist Lawyers 'Collective in 1979, Eschen continued to work as a lawyer in Berlin and as a founding member of the Republican Lawyers' Association (RAV). Eschen worked there with colleagues such as Werner Holtfort , Rupert von Plottnitz , Otto Schily and Gerhard Schröder . Eschen was chairman of the RAV until 1991. Eschen also worked as a notary since 1983. From 1992 to 2000 Eschen held the post of judge at the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin . At the age of 70, he had his license to practice revoked in 2009 and has since devoted himself increasingly to photography.
Works
- with Christiane Landgrebe: Berlin, photographs 1960–1970 . Jovis 2001, ISBN 3931321657
- Legal injustice in the time of National Socialism , Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verl.-Ges., 1997
- "Left" lawyers from APO to today , Cologne: Presseverl. Theurer, 1988
- How to keep your nerve against the police and the judiciary , Berlin: Rotbuch-Verlag, 1973
Web links
- The importance of imparting liberal legal experience for legal training . Lecture at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation 2006
- Peter von Becker: The background celebrity . In: Der Tagesspiegel from April 30, 2011
- die tageszeitung : “Monday interview with Klaus Eschen: 'I learned to see from my father'” on May 30, 2011
- Literature by and about Klaus Eschen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Peter von Becker: The background celebrity . In: Der Tagesspiegel from April 30, 2011, accessed on August 10, 2015
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| SURNAME | Eschen, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, notary and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1939 |