Rasso Graber

Rasso Graber (born April 25, 1974 ) is a German lawyer and former local politician ( CSU ). As one of the main actors in the Munich CSU affair , he was convicted of forgery and document suppression in 2004 .

biography

Rasso Graber studied law and received his doctorate in 2002 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on the subject of "The direct third-party effect of the fundamental freedoms: an investigation based on an interpretation of the EC Treaty, the case law of the Court of Justice and the consequences of an assumed direct third-party effect" . He also acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in European and international business law (abbreviated: LL.M.Eur.) Through the corresponding postgraduate course. Graber works in the Aschheim office of the Munich law firm Falch & Partner and deals with the fields of business law, labor law and criminal defense. He is a specialist lawyer for labor law and a specialist lawyer for transport and forwarding law . Since 1997 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Rheno-Franconia Munich.

At the beginning of the 2000s , Rasso Graber was deputy local chairman of the Munich CSU local association 32b ( Waldtrudering ) and an assessor on the district board of the Munich CSU. On November 29, 2001, he was elected chairman of the Munich Young Union as the successor to the CSU state parliament member Joachim Haedke . Previously, he was the press spokesman for the Munich mayor applicant Aribert Wolf (CSU), who resigned from his candidacy on October 28, 2001 after internal party disputes.

Graber was involved in the "Munich CSU affair" about buying votes and manipulating elections. On August 21, 2003, the house of Rasso Graber was searched by the public prosecutor. His laptop and numerous documents were confiscated. On August 29, 2003, Rasso Graber temporarily resigned his political office after he had previously been urged to do so by the then CSU district chief Monika Hohlmeier , her deputy Otmar Bernhard and the President of the Bavarian State Parliament Alois Glück .

The Munich District Court sentenced Rasso Graber on June 29, 2004 for falsifying and suppressing documents to 170 daily rates of 30 euros each. The court saw it as proven that he as well as Christian Baretti and Stephanie Lütge had withheld CSU membership applications and covered forgeries by others. On November 26, 2004, the judgment became final because the defendants Baretti and Graber had withdrawn their appeals before the Munich I Regional Court . Lütge's criminal case had previously been suspended on payment of her fine . The lawyer was spared a criminal record that would have blocked her way into the legal profession.

Graber's term of office as district chairman of the Junge Union in Munich ended on March 9, 2004, because Tobias Weiß was elected as his successor. The local board of the CSU-Waldtrudering decided on June 17, 2004 unanimously to apply for a party expulsion procedure against Graber because of sustainable, party-damaging behavior . On the eve of this decision, Graber tried to circumvent this decision. By messenger he informed the local chairman, Friederike Steinberger, that he was stepping over to the local association 32a ( Trudering-Riem ). The local board, however, was not impressed and also decided to ask the district and district boards to also apply for exclusion from the party. On July 5, 2004, Rasso Graber finally gave up and resigned from the CSU.

In the final report of the state parliament's committee of inquiry of January 25, 2007, against which the opposition factions protested violently, it said: “Therefore, the non-forwarding of membership applications (according to the old CSU statutes) did not lead to criminal liability for the suppression of documents in the opinion of the committee of inquiry. The Munich District Court saw it differently ” .

On November 7, 2007, the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office investigations into Graber and two other suspects were finally stopped. Chief Public Prosecutor Anton Winkler, spokesman for the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office, justified the decision: "There was testimony against testimony, no one could be assigned a higher evidential value" . The Munich CSU Vice Ludwig Spaenle commented on the event with the words: "The matter is officially closed". The Green parliamentary group leader Margarete Bause said: "The matter is still dubious".

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1. ^ Munich District Court , partnership register, sheet PR 183
2. ↑ Falch & Partner: About us ( Memento from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Information from the Munich Bar Association
4. ^ Berthold Neff: CSU affair: raid on JU boss Rasso Graber ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), sueddeutsche.de , August 21, 2003, 9:46 a.m.
5. ^ Berthold Neff: CSU affair: Graber gives up , sueddeutsche.de, August 29, 2003 4:22 p.m.
6. ↑ Matthias Kristlbauer: Three convictions and a dark threat: CSU swamp Munich: What did Monika Hohlmeier know? , Merkur Online , June 29, 2004, 10:49 pm (The date August 25, 2004 is an error of Merkur Merkur! When searching for the archive, the correct reason appears.)
7. ↑ Jan Bielicki: CSU forgery affair: "Indecent membership purchase" , Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 30, 2004
8. ↑ Matthias Kristlbauer: Election trickster resigns from the CSU , Münchner Merkur, June 21, 2005. Stephanie Lütge (* 1978) has also been working for the Munich law firm Falch & Partner since 2006 .
9. ^ Matthias Kristlbauer: White new JU boss: 22-year-old wants to set up a code of honor , Münchner Merkur, March 11, 2004
10. ↑ CSU Waldtrudering wants Dr. Exclude Rasso Graber from the party ; Press release from the CSU local association Waldtrudering, June 23, 2004
11. ↑ CSU Munich is still looking for the "mastermind" ; Passauer Neue Presse , July 6, 2004
12. ^ Final report of the committee of inquiry examining the extent to which Minister of State Hohlmeier was informed about events in the CSU (...) (PDF; 836 kB) , p. 37
13. ^ Matthias Kristlbauer: CSU election fraud affair: In the end, lies remain , Münchner Merkur , November 10, 2007.