Michael-Hubertus von Sprenger
Michael-Hubertus von Sprenger (born November 7, 1940 in Breslau , Silesia ) is a German lawyer and attorney . His office is based in Munich . He gained greater fame when he was commissioned by the Turkish President Erdoğan in April 2016 to represent him in the Böhmermann affair in German courts. Before that, he had already made a name for himself by representing well-known right-wing extremists , Holocaust deniers such as Gerhard Frey , David Irving and Jürgen Elsässer and as a lawyer for Millî Görüş .
Study and training
Michael-Hubertus von Sprenger studied business administration and law at the Free University of Berlin and became a member of the Corps Palatia Bonn in 1962 . He passed his first state examination in law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ; He completed his legal clerkship and his second state examination in law in Munich .
Practice as a lawyer
After passing the second state examination, he first worked in the credit department of a major bank. He has been working as a lawyer since 1973. In 1975 he founded the law firm von Sprenger und Kollegen together with Hans-Viktor von Lavergne . Today the law firm bears the name of Rechtsanwälte von Sprenger and von Lavergne .
His main areas of activity include family law , commercial tenancy law, and press and media law . He served as a lawyer for the right-wing extremist party Deutsche Volksunion (which merged with the NPD in 2011 ), as legal representative of the Holocaust denier David Irving, as lawyer for Jürgen Elsässer in the Elsässer-Ditfurth trial and as an attorney for Millî Görüş in injunctive relief Active against the Islamic religious community of Berlin , the Free State of Bavaria and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . After Götz George suffered a boat accident in 1996, he commissioned Sprenger to obtain damages and compensation for pain and suffering.
Böhmermann affair
Sprenger temporarily represented Erdoğan in the Böhmermann affair . An attempted coup by Turkish military units failed three months after assuming the mandate . Erdoğan then had thousands of Turks arrested (including many soldiers, prosecutors, judges and other civil servants); Before the constitutional referendum in Turkey on April 16, 2017 , he subjected the German government and other (including the Dutch government ) to Nazi methods. Three weeks after the referendum, Sprenger resigned from his seat.
Memberships
Sprenger is a member of the advisory board of the German-Arab Society .
Web links
Individual references, comments
- ↑ a b Carolin Gasteiger: Michael-Hubertus von Sprenger - The man who wants to go to the last instance for Erdoğan. , Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 13, 2016.
- ↑ Contact . Archived from the original on May 8, 2013. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
- ↑ Stephan Zimmermann, Who is Erdogan's lawyer? ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. MDR Info, April 13, 2016, accessed April 19, 2016.
- ↑ spiegel.de August 26, 1999
- ↑ This is the man who represents Erdogan in Germany . Welt Online, April 14, 2016.
- ↑ The Erdogan lawyer with great experience . Handelsblatt, April 14, 2016.
- ↑ Topic of the day ( memento from April 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Saarbrücker Zeitung , April 16, 2016.
- ↑ zeit.de May 4, 2017: Erdoğan's German lawyer resigns
- ↑ Legal dispute over "libelous poem" German Erdogan lawyer resigns , Der Spiegel May 4, 2017
- ↑ Because of Nazi comparisons? German Erdogan lawyer resigns from his mandate Focus May 4, 2017
- ^ Members of the Advisory Board on the DAG website , accessed on April 14, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sprenger, Michael-Hubertus von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and attorney |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw , Silesia |