Ottmar Breidling

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Ottmar Antonius Breidling (born February 15, 1947 in Bremen ) is a German lawyer .

Career

Breidling graduated from high school in Neuss in 1966 . He passed the first and second state exams in Düsseldorf . Breidling worked as a probationary judge from 1976 to 1978 . 1979/1980 he worked at the district court in Neuss and at the regional court in Düsseldorf. 1978–1980 and 1983–1986 he was seconded to the Federal Ministry of Justice (departments for youth protection and criminal code / criminal procedure law). From 1987 to 1994 he was a judge at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (3rd and 5th Criminal Senate) and in 1994/95 at the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court . 1995–1996 he was seconded to the Ministry of Justice and for Federal and European Affairs of the State of Brandenburg . Since November 7th, 1996 he worked at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court as the presiding judge of the 6th Criminal Senate, which is responsible for state security matters and terrorism. He retired on March 30, 2012.

Terrorist trials

Breidling is considered one of the most experienced judges in matters of terrorism and political extremism in Germany. In the trial against the left-wing terrorism of the anti-imperialist cells (AIZ), Breidling first allowed satellite-based surveillance of suspects via GPS as an investigation method at the end of the 1990s .

As chairman of the State Security Senate at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, he led the trial against Metin Kaplan in 2000 and against four members of the Islamist organization al-Tawhid and one of the two suitcase bombers in 2005 . Breidling became known to the public for his criticism of the law on foreigners and the practice of asylum. In the Düsseldorf Al-Qaida trial, which lasted more than a year and a half, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court ruled al-Qaida as a foreign terrorist organization within the meaning of German criminal law and imposed several years in prison on the three defendants. Breidling chaired the trial against the so-called Sauerland Group , a cell of the Islamist Jihad Union , which began on April 22, 2009 . In his last major trial as chairman of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, four members of the Tamil terrorist organization " Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam " were sentenced to several years' imprisonment.

Personal

Breidling is married and has one grown daughter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominik Reinle: Judge Ottmar Breidling retires: The Lord of Terrorism Trials ends , article from March 29, 2012 on the WDR website
  2. ↑ Portrait: Judge Ottmar Breidling Focus, March 4, 2010
  3. ↑ a b Terror Trial: This man judges the "Sauerland Group" Thorsten Jungholt, Die Welt April 21, 2009
  4. ↑ BGH 3 StR 324/00 - judgment v. January 24, 2001 (Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court)
  5. ↑ Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court: Several years in prison for al-Qaida terrorists SZ, December 5, 2007
  6. ↑ Ottmar Breidling in the SWR blog “Sauerland Process”
  7. ↑ a b Ottmar Breidling, presiding judge of the “Terrorism” Senate, is retiring. (No longer available online.) Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, March 13, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 6, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.olg-duesseldorf.nrw.de  
personal data
SURNAME Breidling, Ottmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breidling, Ottmar Antonius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen