Reinhard Nemetz

Reinhard Nemetz (born January 23, 1951 in Augsburg ) is a German lawyer and public prosecutor. He was the head of the Augsburg public prosecutor's office . From August 1, 2014 to January 31, 2018, he was President of the Munich District Court .

Life

Reinhard Nemetz joined the Bavarian judicial service in 1978 and soon made a career there in his hometown. After changing careers between public prosecutors and judges, which is customary in Bavaria, he was promoted to senior public prosecutor in 1993 and in 1995 to deputy head of the Augsburg public prosecutor's office. From 1999 to 2014 he was head of the Augsburg public prosecutor's office . This is the third largest public prosecutor in Bavaria.

Investigator

As the chief public prosecutor in Augsburg, Nemetz was always well informed about events in his authority, according to the press. He sat personally in court hearings in important proceedings.

CDU party donation scandal

When his predecessor Jörg Hillinger died on April 26, 1999 in a spectacular car accident, Nemetz was appointed as his successor on October 1, 1999 and took over the investigation into the CDU donation affair . His investigations led to judgments against Ludwig-Holger Pfahls and Karlheinz Schreiber . After the fugitive Ludwig-Holger Pfahl was arrested in 2004, he commented: “We'll get them all. Everyone, including the writer. ”When this was delivered in 2009, it was considered“ the culmination of his career ”. According to Michael Stiller , Nemetz's record in the Schreiber investigation is not flawless. In 2000, he was seriously incriminated by subordinate public prosecutors in the Schreiber investigation committee of the Bavarian state parliament : Nemetz hindered the public prosecutor Winfried Maier, who has been responsible for the case since 1997. Nemetz rejected one investigation step after another and wanted Maier to split the Schreiber process into individual proceedings. Two days after taking office as head of the prosecutor's office, he ordered the final disposal of the fatally injured predecessor Hillinger from the file to remove and in the secret file of documents to take over. It was in the disposition that Attorney General Hermann Froschauer unlawfully demanded the suspension of the arrest warrants against Holger Pfahls and other suspects. Before the investigative committee, Nemetz justified his illegal instruction not to record internal differences in the files on the grounds: "Such a file is not a diary."

Other known investigations

Further well-known successful investigations under his direction were the kidnapping of Ursula Herrmann and the murder of the Augsburg police . Well-known discontinued investigations by the Augsburg Public Prosecutor's Office under his direction concerned the complaint by Gerhard Strates for perversion of the law in 2013 in the Gustl Mollath case and the case of an Augsburg public prosecutor who described an accused in the indictment as an "asshole". The public prosecutor's office is also involved in the Schottdorf affair . The bribed Augsburg public prosecutor Uwe Huchel stopped criminal proceedings against Schottdorf before 2006. The resumed proceedings were withdrawn from the responsible Munich corruption prosecutor after more than two years of investigative work due to lack of jurisdiction and transferred to the Augsburg public prosecutor. The proceedings against Bernd Schottdorf were immediately discontinued in 2009 and 2011.

Schwabing art find

Nemetz was the head of the public prosecutor's office in the criminal tax case against Cornelius Gurlitt ( Schwabinger Kunstfund ). His press conference at the beginning of November 2013 was reported worldwide. The investigators' approach has been criticized, for example the seizure of the Gurlitt collection or the lack of charges despite investigations for 20 months.

On November 19, 2013, Nemetz announced that the works of art that are rightfully owned by Cornelius Gurlitt will be offered for "redemption" immediately.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Augsburg chief public prosecutor Nemetz becomes head of the Munich district court ; in: Focus Online from June 20, 2014
2. ↑ Beate Ehrt becomes the new President of the Munich District Court ( Memento from July 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ); in: BR24 of January 29, 2018
3. ↑ Relentless tenacious hunt for scribes . In: Kölnische Rundschau from August 3, 2009.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Holger Sabinsky-Wolf: The Stubborn . In: Augsburger Allgemeine. January 2, 2012.
5. ↑ John Goetz, Conny Neumann, Oliver Schröm: Alone against Kohl, Kiep & Co: the story of an undesirable investigation. 2nd edition, Berlin 2000, p. 123 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
6. ↑ Schreiber's persistent pursuer . In: Tagesspiegel. August 5, 2009.
7. ↑ Chief Public Prosecutor Nemetz: "We catch them all" . ; in: Der Focus , August 3, 2009.
8. ↑ Iris Hilberth: Portrait - Feelings of triumph are alien to him . August 5, 2009.
9. ↑ Nikolaus Dominik: Senior Public Prosecutor Nemetz: "We catch them all" . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . August 3, 2009.
10. ↑ Chief Public Prosecutor Nemetz: "We catch them all" . In: Focus. August 3, 2009.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Stiller: The man before whom the scribe trembles . In: taz. August 5, 2009.
12. ^ Profile of Winfried Maier . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. October 26, 2001.
13. ^ Wilhelm Schlötterer : Delusion and arbitrariness. Strauss and his heirs or how to put a country in your pocket . Munich 2013, p. 43 ff.
14. ↑ Oliver García: Mollath case: Augsburg public prosecutor - Si tacuisses! , blog.delegibus.com of February 27, 2013
15. ^ Wilhelm Schlötterer: Delusion and arbitrariness. Strauss and his heirs or how to put a country in your pocket. Munich 2013, p. 318 ff.
16. ^ Fefes Blog , entry September 9, 2008, accessed November 20, 2013.
17. ↑ Stefan Mayr: Public prosecutor calls the defendant an "asshole" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 10, 2008.
18. ^ "Schottdorf case" in TV and university . In: Bürgerblick Passau . 19th November 2013.
19. ↑ Bavarian State Parliament, 16th electoral period, printed matter No. 16/8832. Answer of the State Ministry of Justice and for Consumer Protection of July 14, 2011 to the written question of Florian Streibl Free Voters from April 21, 2011, p. 3/4 ( PDF )
20. ↑ Bavarian State Parliament, 16th electoral period, printed matter No. 16/4001: Answer of the State Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection of February 24, 2010 to the written question of the MPs Susanna Tausendfreund , Christine Kamm , Theresa Schopper BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN of January 21 2010, p. 3/4. ( PDF )
21. ^ Wilhelm Schlötterer: Delusion and arbitrariness. Strauss and his heirs or how to put a country in your pocket. Munich 2013, p. 234 ff.
22. ↑ Jörg Häntzschel: Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger on the Gurlitt case - “Being righteous does not help here”. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 17th November 2013.
23. ↑ Julia Voss : Münchner Kunstfund: Where is the rule of law? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 17, 2013, accessed on November 17, 2013 . 
24. ↑ Stefan Mayr: Man for explosive cases . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 19th November 2013.
25. ↑ OStA Nemetz: Press release on dealing with the so-called "Schwabinger Kunstfund". ( Memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 14 kB) November 19, 2013, accessed on November 19, 2013.