Norbert Gatzweiler

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Norbert Gatzweiler (born March 18, 1942 in Koblenz ) is a German lawyer and criminal defense attorney in Cologne . He is also an honorary professor at the law faculty of the University of Cologne .

Life

Gatzweiler was admitted to the bar in 1971 and founded his law firm in the same year with a focus on criminal law , in particular white-collar crime . After working as a lecturer for the practice of criminal proceedings from the mid-1990s, he was appointed honorary professor on February 22, 2002.

Gatzweiler also became publicly known through mandates in proceedings that received media attention. Among other things, he defended the former board member Peter Rieck in the process of the Omega 55 scandal at HSH Nordbank and Hellmut Trienekens in the Cologne garbage scandal ; He also represented Heinrich von Pierer and Klaus Kleinfeld in the Siemens bribery affair as well as Gustav Adolf Schröder as head of the largest German municipal savings bank and Michael Frenzel as TUI boss; he was also involved in the Mannesmann process and the Herstatt processes .

In 2013, at a conference at the University of Trier, Gatzweiler was critical of the Kachelmann process and the media coverage of it.

At the beginning of 2014, the Teldafax proceedings for delaying insolvency began , in which Gatzweiler is representing the former CEO Klaus Bath. Shortly afterwards, he was the victim of an attempted kidnapping , from which, although tied, he was able to escape by fleeing from his own car in the underground car park exit.

Since 2015, Gatzweiler has been representing his colleague Hanno Berger, who works in tax law , in a mammoth tax evasion case involving controversial cum-ex deals . In June, a house search in the Frankfurt Deutsche Bank skyscraper was carried out on this subject .

For several years, Gatzweiler was chairman of the criminal law working group of the German Lawyers' Association and has been honorary chairman of the association since 2006. According to a ranking by Wirtschaftswoche , in 2011 his law firm was one of the 25 “top law firms for white collar crime” in Germany.

Gatzweiler is married to his partner Gaby Münchhalffen.

Works

author

  • together with Gaby Münchhalffen: The right of pre-trial detention . 3., rework. Edition. Verlag CHBeck , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58749-8 .
  • together with Klaus Bernsmann, with the assistance of Katharina Rausch: Defense in corruption cases . 2., rework. Edition. C. F. Müller, Heidelberg; Munich; Landsberg; Cheeky; Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8114-4363-1 .

editor

  • together with Rainer Brüssow, Wilhelm Krekeler and Volkmar Mehle (eds.): Criminal defense in practice . Basics of criminal proceedings. 2nd Edition. tape 1 , 2000, ISBN 978-3-8240-0856-8 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b own information; in the absence of more precise and sometimes contradicting sources, as an exception, pers. comm. on October 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c Detlef Schmidt: Cologne star lawyer escapes kidnapper! In: Kölner Express . March 22, 2014, accessed October 11, 2015 .
  3. ↑ List of honorary professors at the law faculty on the website of the University of Cologne, accessed on October 11, 2015.
  4. ^ Law at the University of Cologne, 2/2002, page 57; Confirmed in writing on request by the Jura Dean's Office on October 13, 2015.
  5. ^ Indictment: HSH board members rely on Hamburg and Cologne defense lawyers. Juve Verlag (juve.de), January 2, 2012, accessed on October 13, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Joachim Hahn, Johannes Ritter: On the trail of Dr. No. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 24, 2013, accessed October 11, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Martin Scheele: Trienekens pays five million euros. In: Manager Magazin . July 6, 2005, accessed October 12, 2015 .
  8. ^ Lutz Reiche: Siemens threatens from Pierer. In: Manager Magazin . September 23, 2009, accessed October 12, 2015 .
  9. ↑ a b c Lawyers Gatzweiler and Münchhalffen, Cologne. Law firm portrait. In: Wirtschaftswoche . May 21, 2011, accessed October 13, 2015 .
  10. ^ House of the chief executive searched. In: Manager Magazin . August 18, 2006, accessed October 12, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Schröder was represented and defended by Gatzweiler's partner Gaby Münchhalffen; Andreas Damm: Gustav Adolf Schröder has to answer in court. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . December 10, 2014, accessed October 14, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Four board members under suspicion. In: Manager Magazin . October 19, 2005, accessed October 12, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Ludger Fittkau: When the courtroom becomes a boulevard. Conference of the University of Trier on media in criminal proceedings. Deutschlandfunk , April 4, 2013, accessed on October 11, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Teldafax: After an occupation complaint, the criminal process will restart in January. Juve Verlag (juve.de), November 6, 2014, accessed on October 14, 2015 .
  15. ^ Teldafax lawyer escapes kidnapping. In: Handelsblatt . March 21, 2014, accessed October 11, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Tim Stinauer: The police are looking for Gatzweiler kidnappers. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . March 21, 2014, accessed October 11, 2015 .
  17. ↑ Cum-ex transactions: Hanno Berger expands defense team. Juve Verlag (juve.de), August 12, 2015, accessed on October 14, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Klaus Ott, Meike Schreiber: Next case, next raid. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 9, 2015, accessed October 11, 2015 .
  19. ↑ Hans-Peter Canibol, Claudia Tödtmann: The best lawyers for white collar crime. In: Wirtschaftswoche . May 21, 2011, accessed October 13, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Gatzweiler, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer criminal defense attorney
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz