Kurt Groenewold

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Kurt Groenewold (born April 3, 1937 in Hamburg ) is a German lawyer and author .

Life

Groenewold has been a lawyer since 1965, particularly as a criminal defense lawyer in political criminal proceedings. His clients came from the APO and RAF ; Groenewold was one of Andreas Baader's three defense lawyers during the Stammheim trial . Together with Hans Christian Ströbele , he set up the information system for the defense of the RAF prisoners. Against this background, criminal proceedings were initiated against him in 1975 and a temporary ban on the profession was imposed. In 1969 he was the defender of Ernst Schnabel after the tumult during the failed world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's oratorio Das Raft der Medusa . In 1974 Groenewold represented the writer Erich Fried in proceedings for insulting the Berlin police. In 1984 he defended Konrad Kujau in the trial of the forged Hitler diaries .

Groenewold is a co-founder of the Hamburg Defense Lawyers Association (1973), the Republican Lawyers Association (1979) and founder of the criminal defense lawyer magazine (1982). He has also written various publications on legal history topics.

Groenewold represents writers and artists in legal matters and is, among other things, executor of Erich Fried , Hans Mayer and actress Käthe Reichel . He was chairman of the International Erich Fried Society for Literature and Language / Vienna and is a member of the executive committee and member of the executive committee of the Hanns Eisler Society . Groenewold was a partner in the publishers Europäische Verlagsanstalt / Rotbuch Verlag / Verlag Die Hanse .

Together with his siblings, Groenewold is a partner in the Friedrich G. Groenewold heirs. The film producer David Groenewold was his nephew.

Publications (selection)

  • Foreword to Edward Peters: Torture. History of the embarrassing questioning , Hamburg: Europäische Verlagsanstalt 1991, ISBN 3-434-46195-7
  • Contribution to Hanno Loewy, Bettina Winter: Nazi “euthanasia” in court. Fritz Bauer and the limits of legal coping , Scientific series of the Fritz Bauer Institute , 1, Frankfurt / M .: Campus 1996
  • Epilogue to Peter O. Chotjewitz : The Lords of Dawn. Roman fragment , Hamburg: Rotbuch 1997, ISBN 3-880-22201-0
  • Text contribution to Sabine Groenewold (Ed.): With license: History of the European Publishing House; 1946-1996 ; Hamburg: European Publishing House 1996, ISBN 3-434-50095-2
  • Accused as defense attorney. other texts , series: Documentations, 1, Hamburg: Attica-Verlag 1978, ISBN 3-882-35004-0
  • Contribution to the prosecution of lawyers in Hartmut Wächtler (ed.): On the everyday life of political criminal justice in the FRG: Contributions by German defense lawyers at an event on the occasion of the 51st German Jurists Conference in Stuttgart on September 16 , 1976 , Munich: Self-published by Hartmut Wächtler 1977
  • Editor of the Groenewold, Degenhardt, Reinhard law firm: Political Justice: Documentation on the terror of deportation against Palestinians , Hamburg: Verlag Association 1972
  • Kurt Groenewold (Ed.): Information on the indictment of the Federal Public Prosecutor against Attorney Kurt Groenewold as defender of the prisoners from the RAF , series: Trials against the defenders of political prisoners in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Hamburg: Maldoror 1976
  • Contributions in Peter Brokmeier (Ed. On behalf of the Republican Clubs, Berlin): Capitalism and freedom of the press using the example of Springer , Frankfurt / M .: European Publishing House 1969
  • Claus Croissant , Kurt Groenewold, among others: Political processes without defense . Foreword by Gerhard Mauz, Berlin: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach 1976. Politiske processer uden forsvar , Retssagen mod Baader-Meinhof-gruppen [Røde Armé Fraktion] i Vesttyskland (legal cases with the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe [Red Army Fraction] in West Germany). Oversat og commenteret af Finn Barlby (translated into Danish and commented by Finn Barlby). Forord ved Carl Madsen (foreword by Carl Madsen), København: Tiderne skrifter, 1976
  • Epilogue to the legal situation in Leila Moysich, Joachim Wehnelt: And suddenly it's life: a baby savior tells , Achberg, Cologne: Achberger Verlags-Anstalt u. Europe 2004, ISBN 3-434-50577-6
  • About organizing legal interest representation (1970–1980) in legal policy “with an upright walk” , Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-789-01986-0
  • Contribution by William M. Kunstler (1919–1995): Radical Lawyer and advocate for the civil rights movement . In "... no reason to celebrate": 30 years of defense lawyers' day ; Berlin: criminal defense associations 2007, pp. 187–203
  • Kurt Groenewold, Alexander Ignor, Arnd Koch (eds.): Lexicon of Political Criminal Trials , since 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The networkers of the RAF ; in: Focus, issue of July 20, 2009; Page 18
  2. ↑ Trial against Ernst Schnabel and the student Lunzer, Hamburg on kurt-groenewold.de, accessed on May 14, 2018.
  3. ↑ Iris Mainka: Versatile , Die Zeit , June 17, 1994 (accessed on March 26, 2014); The somewhat different Kurt Groenewold , Hamburger Abendblatt , May 4, 2004 (accessed on March 26, 2014); Lorenz Jäger: RAF story: When will “Citizen Schily” appear? , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 3, 2005 (accessed March 26, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Groenewold, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg