Republican Lawyers Association

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The Republican Bar Association (RAV) is an association of lawyers that was founded in 1979. The registered association is based in Berlin and its office is in the House of Democracy and Human Rights . The founding members included Rupert von Plottnitz , Ulrich K. Preuß , Fritz Sack , Otto Schily , Hans-Peter Schneider , Rudolf Schöfberger , Gerhard Schröder and the first chairman of the Werner Holtfort association . The RAV sees itself as a political advocacy group whose concern is to secure and establish “the priority of human and civil rights over the interests of state and economic institutions”. The association sees itself as part of the civil rights movement and the new social movements . The task is the "struggle for free lawyers and for a democratic right".

structure

Board

The former federal chairman is Wolfgang Kaleck .

Other board members
  • Berenice Böhlo , Berlin
  • Martin Heiming, Heidelberg
  • Gabriele Heinecke , Hamburg
  • Benjamin Hersch, Berlin
  • Björn Elberling, Kiel
  • Waltraut rental, Frankfurt
  • Jan Oelbermann, Berlin

The office is the House of Democracy and Human Rights .

executive Director

Self-image and activities

According to its own description, the association joins:

  • against "constant tightening of criminal law and criminal procedure law"
  • against "police violence and the constant expansion of police powers"
  • against "a racist asylum and immigration law"
  • for "safeguarding the rights of minorities"
  • for "decent living and working conditions"

The RAV publishes the Fundamental Rights Report with various other civil rights organizations . The RAV itself publishes an information letter for its members "two to three times a year" in printed form; the contributions are also regularly made publicly available on the RAV website.

G8 summit

During the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 , members of the RAV were part of a legal team , an association of lawyers that observed the demonstrations and took on the function of an association's own emergency lawyer service during the demonstrations around the summit. After the summit, the RAV filed a complaint about the inhumane treatment of prisoners and complained about the use of plainclothes police as agents provocateurs . The Legal Team was honored with the “pro reo” award for “its outstanding services in carrying out an emergency lawyer service” by the Criminal Law Working Group of the German Lawyers' Association (DAV). In December 2007, the legal team also received the Carl von Ossietzky Medal from the Berlin International League for Human Rights for this mission .

G20 summit

At the G20 summit in Hamburg 2017 , the RAV also offered an emergency lawyer service for arrested demonstrators and announced in advance that it would consistently oppose Hartmut Dudde's “ Hamburg line ” . The Hamburg police later announced that the club was “dangerously far to the left”. A curiosity, since Hamburg's mayor Olaf Scholz is a member of the association himself.

Memberships

The RAV is a member of the following organizations:

literature

  • Volker Eick, Jörg Arnold (Eds.): 40 years of RAV. In the struggle for free law and for a democratic right . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2019, ISBN 978-3-89691-264-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RAV: Werner Holtfort died 20 years ago EINE DESTINATION
  2. ↑ Board of Directors. Republican Lawyers Association, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Office. Republican Bar Association, accessed June 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Self- image . Republican Bar Association, accessed June 19, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Publications. Republican Bar Association, accessed December 26, 2018 .
  6. ↑ "Dedicated lawyers have set up an emergency lawyer service under the umbrella of the Republican Lawyers' Association (RAV) in order to secure the rule of law during the expected protests around the G20 summit in Hamburg in July 2017. The emergency service was created in close cooperation with the Hamburg investigation committee (EA), Rote Hilfe eV and other anti-repression groups. "( Https://www.anwaltlicher-notdienst-rav.org/de/about )
  7. ↑ Peter Burghardt: Police consider left-wing lawyers to be dangerous . In: sueddeutsche.de . July 4, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 27, 2017]).