Rolf Bossi

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Rolf Bossi (2008)

Rolf Bossi (born September 10, 1923 in Karlsruhe , † December 22, 2015 in Düsseldorf ) was a German lawyer and publicist . He was one of the most famous defense lawyers in Germany.

Youth and Studies

Bossi's father, a native of Italy, was a civil servant in the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Baden and a committed member of the Catholic Center Party , then an administrative officer in the Air Force during the Second World War . He was sentenced to death by a court martial in 1942 for “ decomposing military strength ” and shot . Bossi graduated from high school in Munich that same year . As an officer candidate for the Wehrmacht , he was wounded on the Eastern Front . His father's fate motivated him, while he was recovering in the hospital that To take up law studies.

Bossi started a dissertation on the subject of "The participation of third parties in abortion ", which he did not complete because the legal situation had meanwhile been clearly clarified by a decision of the Federal Court of Justice .

Legal practice

Bossi was admitted to the Munich bar in 1952, where he initially worked in the law firm of the defense attorney Adolf Mier .

He became known in particular through the defense of the actress Ingrid van Bergen , who shot her partner. Bossi represented other celebrities in the course of his career, including Romy Schneider , but also people such as the child killer Jürgen Bartsch , the serial killer Fritz Honka , the Oetker kidnapper Dieter Zlof and the kidnapper Dieter Degowski from the hostage-taking of Gladbeck . He was also active for GDR border guards in the so-called wall rifle trial as well as in the trials of the Hamburg call girl ring and the impostor Gert Postel .

After his driving license was revoked in 2004 after a long administrative dispute, the Munich Regional Court I sentenced him in April 2007 to a fine of 18,000 euros for driving without a license in two cases in which he had invoked the professional necessity of driving. This was followed by convictions by the Augsburg District Court for defamation against three judges at 12,000 euros and by the Ingolstadt District Court with a 24,000 euros fine for insulting a rape victim as a "shabby, criminal filth with unsurpassable lack of character".

Bossi worked for many years in a law firm with defense attorneys Gunter Widmaier and Steffen Ufer , and later with Ulrich Ziegert. Even Werner Leitner began his legal career with Bossi. At the end of 2008, Rolf Bossi retired from his law firm. In March 2011, he returned his license to practice as a lawyer.

Viewpoints

In 1980 Bossi joined the CSU , but saw himself there on the left. As a non-fiction author, he positioned himself with various legal political demands. He called on the legislature to repeal not only the unjust judgments of the Nazi era, but also unjust verdicts from the post-war period, which had been pronounced by judges who still ruled in the tradition of the Nazi era. He also distinguished himself through his proposals to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure ; Bossi suggested, among other things, that a second factual instance be allowed in all criminal proceedings and that an exact verbal protocol be kept. In his book The Made Murderers , published in 2006, Bossi dealt extensively with the causes of growing youth violence in our society. Since he had represented the actor Günter Lamprecht and his partner, who had been seriously injured by a young man who ran amok in 1999, as co-plaintiffs in court, the lawyer has been preoccupied with precarious family relationships, deficiencies in the education system, harmful media influences and the German integration policy, which he saw as a failure turned more and more young people into hopeless and hopeless violent criminals - and sometimes even murderers. In an interview with Focus in August 2008 , he advocated the death penalty for offenders with a "sadistic-perverse killing impulse". Bossi vehemently contradicted this presentation of his statements in several subsequent interviews, for example on Deutschlandradio.

In 2006 he accepted an honorary doctorate, faked by the magazine Tempo, from a “German National Academy” that did not actually exist. To this end, he agreed to the Academy's program, without noticing that it was peppered with numerous quotes from Hitler's Mein Kampf and NPD guidelines. Based on the reporting, he announced legal action against the newspaper and denied that the quotes were enclosed with the letter to him. The also misled Julian Nida-Rümelin confirmed this representation.

Movie and TV

Bossi occasionally worked on film productions. In 1969, for example, he advised the Lisa Film Production Company on the production of the film “ Married Couple Looking for Like-Minded People ” and also took on a supporting role as a lawyer. In the crime scene Der Richter in Weiss produced in 1971 , he embodied a criminal defense attorney. For a long time he was a frequent guest at panel discussions.

Private

Bossi's first wife died in 2000. She brought a daughter into the marriage and had a daughter with him.

In 2002 Bossi married his partner, who was also widowed. He lived temporarily in the Munich district of Bogenhausen and, after retiring, moved his center of life entirely to Gevelsberg , the place where his wife lived. The couple had lived in Düsseldorf since December 2014 . Rolf Bossi was buried in the north cemetery in Düsseldorf.

The Munich sculptor Nicolai Tregor portrayed him in the form of a bronze bust and on a cast bronze medal.

Publications

  • I claim right. 24 years as a criminal defense lawyer in Germany. Bertelsmann, Munich / Gütersloh / Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-570-02141-6 .
    • Paperback edition: I demand justice. Criminal attorney's memories. Heyne, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-453-00769-7 .
  • Demigods in black. Germany's judiciary in the pillory. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-8218-5609-2 .
  • The made murderers. When young people become perpetrators. Ways out of the spiral of violence. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 3-7857-2279-6 .
  • Here I am. Late Confessions of Faith, Truth, and Justice. Gütersloher Verlag, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-06992-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lawyer and publicist: Star lawyer Rolf Bossi is dead
  2. ↑ Demigods in Black , p. 211. Der Spiegel No. 53/2015, p. 133 named in its obituary for Rolf Bossi 1943 as the year of the shooting.
  3. ↑ a b Speaker biography from Jura Perspektiven 2007 - Facebook ( Memento from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.2 MB), ed. by the Association for the Promotion of Legal Education at the University of Cologne (JAK eV), p. 17, viewed on April 7, 2008
  4. ^ Memoirs of a criminal defense lawyer , p. 46.
  5. ↑ On the death of Rolf Bossi: The epitome of the star lawyer, Gisela Friedrichsen in conversation with Andrea Gerk , deutschlandfunkkultur.de , December 22, 2015
  6. ↑ Holger Sabinsky: Bossi sucht den Frieden , Augsburger Allgemeine (Online) from September 9, 2008, accessed on January 3, 2012.
  7. ↑ Dietmar Hipp and Markus Verbeet: Star lawyer Bossi - Halbgott in Schwarz , Spiegel-Online from January 26, 2007, accessed on January 3, 2012.
  8. ↑ Torturers of Justice . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on August 21, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Hannelore Crolly: Lawyer Rolf Bossi †: A star in all courtrooms and an expert on disgusting things . In: THE WORLD . December 23, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed on August 21, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Heribert Prantl: Bossi pulled criminal law out of the gutter . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on August 21, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Party entry: Rolf Bossi , Der Spiegel 21/1980, p. 284.
  12. ↑ Demigods in Black , p. 257.
  13. ↑ Demigods in Black , pp. 275–279.
  14. ^ Rolf Bossi advocates the death penalty , Focus, August 17, 2008.
  15. ^ "I am not in favor of the death penalty" , Deutschlandradio Kultur, September 10, 2008.
  16. ↑ Ralf Schönball, Marc Felix Serrao: Dirty Journalism? Reporters, Scoops, Lies: The “National Academy” of “Tempo” and the consequences. In: Tagesspiegel . December 8, 2006.
  17. ↑ Julian Nida-Rümelin: I find the action silly . Honorary doctoral affair: an ex-minister of state defends himself. In: Berliner Zeitung, December 14, 2006 .
  18. ↑ Bossi daughters argue over their mother's grave , Münchner Merkur , April 27, 2009
  19. ^ Bossi: Wedding with 78 , Hamburger Abendblatt , August 6, 2002.
  20. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Rolf Bossi
  21. ↑ 63-year-old drove without a license for 27 years , tz , November 10, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Bossi, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2015
Place of death Dusseldorf