Rolf Gössner

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Rolf Gössner

Rolf Gössner (born February 13, 1948 in Tübingen ) is a German lawyer , publicist , parliamentary advisor and civil rights activist . He is co-editor of the magazine Ossietzky , jury member of the Big Brother Awards and the Carl von Ossietzky Medal , co-editor of the Fundamental Rights Report , board member (former vice president) of the Berlin International League for Human Rights and deputy judge at the State Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

Life

Education, job and political commitment

Gössner attended the Johannes-Kepler-Progymnasium in Weil der Stadt and the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium in Leonberg. He completed an apprenticeship as a banker in Stuttgart and studied law and political science at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with subsequent legal clerkship in Bremen and Brussels . During his studies, he was a member of the Socialist University Association and as such was temporarily a member of the General Student Committee of the University of Freiburg.

Gössner's doctorate on political justice in the preventive security state at the University of Bremen followed in 1993 . Gössner has lived in Bremen since 1980.

His work focused on the advisory work of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group from 1990 to 2001 in the Lower Saxony state parliament and abroad. He appeared several times as an expert in the Bundestag.

He led criminal defense as well as co-plaintiff representative offices, among others, for the family of Halim Dener, Oliver Ness and together with Hans-Eberhard Schultz , the criminal defense of Kani Yılmaz (PKK Europe spokesperson). He was a trial observer in many political criminal proceedings; including in the Benjamin Ramos cases, in the appeal proceedings against Abdullah Öcalan before the European Court of Human Rights and the criminal proceedings against Gabriele Kanze; He is also a member of human rights delegations and deputy judge at the State Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

Furthermore, Gössner was and is a lecturer at various universities and an official supporter of the surveillance-critical data protection demonstration Freedom instead of Fear .

Gössner was a complainant against the retention of telecommunications and location data before the Federal Constitutional Court . The proceedings ended with an extensive success for the complainants, the underlying law was declared null and void, all stored data had to be deleted.

Gössner is independent. From 2007 to 2015 he was a member of the Deputation for Interior of the State of Bremen , named by the parliamentary group of the Left . From 2003 to 2008 he was President of the International League for Human Rights (ILMR), since 2008 he has been Vice President / Board Member. Together with the ILMR, the Chaos Computer Club and Digitalcourage eV, he filed a criminal complaint in 2014 against the federal government and those responsible for the secret service for mass surveillance.

He repeatedly referred to the secret services as “foreign bodies in democracy” because of their lack of transparency and uncontrollability and called for their “socially acceptable” dissolution.

Monitoring by the protection of the constitution

Gössner was accused of contacts with left-wing extremist or left-wing extremist organizations such as the DKP , the Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime or the Rote Hilfe association . Because of this “ contact guilt ”, Gössner was permanently monitored for 38 years by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution . Shortly before the first oral hearing of a lawsuit to determine the illegality before the Administrative Court in Cologne, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution announced in November 2008 that the observation had been discontinued “after the current examination”. The lawsuit was intended to oblige the domestic secret service to block all data collected about it and to delete it after inspection.

On February 3, 2011, the Cologne Administrative Court ruled that the ongoing observation had been unlawful throughout. In the material submitted by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, it could not find any indications of anti-constitutional efforts. This judgment was confirmed in March 2018 by the North Rhine-Westphalia Higher Administrative Court in Münster , according to which this long-term monitoring was illegal. Due to its fundamental importance, however, the court allowed the appeal to the Federal Administrative Court , which was also filed by the Federal Government and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • as publisher: Courageous enlighteners in the digital age. Carl von Ossietzky medals to Edward Snowden , Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, Berlin 2015
  • Human rights in times of terror. Collateral damage on the "home front". concrete literature publishing house, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89458-252-4
  • Secret informers. V-people of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution - criminals in the service of the state. Droemer-Knaur-Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-426-77684-7
  • "Big brother" & Co .: the modern surveillance state in the information society. concrete literature publishing house, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-89458-195-6
  • First legal aid. Legal and behavioral tips in dealing with the police, judiciary and secret services. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89533-243-7
  • The forgotten justice victims of the Cold War. Displacement in the West - Settlement with the East? Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1998, act. and exp. New edition, ISBN 3-7466-8026-3
  • with Oliver Neß and the Federal Working Group of Critical Police Officers , Police in Twilight - Is the machine out of control? , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1996
  • as publisher: Myth Security - The helpless cry for the strong state , Nomos, Baden-Baden 1995
  • The forgotten justice victims of the Cold War - On the different ways of dealing with German history in East and West , Konkret Literatur Verlag, Hamburg 1994
  • as publisher: Residual Risk Human , Bremen 1987
  • The anti-terror system. Political justice in the preventive security state. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-87975-576-0
  • with Uwe Herzog : The Apparatus - Investigations in Police Matters , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1982, act. 1984
  • with Uwe Herzog: In the shadow of the law. Methods of a new secret police. Publishing house Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-462-01662-8
  • Current materials on class analysis of highly developed societies. Ed. from AStA Freiburg and SHB Freiburg. Compilation and processing by Rolf Gössner and Peter van Spall with the assistance of Georg Herbert , Freiburg 1971

Contributions

  • with Johann-Albrecht Haupt, Dr. Udo Kauß, Dr. Till Müller-Heidelberg, Thomas von Zabern: Humanist Union / International League for Human Rights / Federal Working Group for Critical Jurassic Groups (ed.): Do we need the protection of the constitution? NO! , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-930416-30-1
  • Goodbye espionage. Mass surveillance and global data espionage: We are filing criminal charges against the federal government and secret services. With an analysis by Rolf Gössner (Verlag Art d'Ameublement, Bielefeld 2014).

Web links

Commons : Rolf Gössner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita and bibliography of Dr. Rolf Gössner. In: roelf-goessner.de. Retrieved March 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Till Müller-Heidelberg: 40 Years of Neverending History or The Unteachability of the “Verfassungsschutz” . In: T. Müller-Heidelberg, E. Steven, M. Pelzer, M. Heiming, H. Fechner, R. Gössner, U. Engelfried and M. Küster (eds.): Grundrechte-Report 2012. On the situation of the citizens and human rights in Germany . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-19422-3 ( online at verfassungs-schuetzen.de , Humanistische Union [accessed on March 16, 2018]).
  3. ^ A b c Dietmar Hipp: Judgment against constitutional protectors: Big Brother mistook friend and foe. In: Spiegel Online . April 5, 2011, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Well packed . Spiegel, July 11, 1994
  5. ↑ List of supporters for the demonstration Freedom instead of Fear 2008 on vorratsdatenspeicherung.de , accessed on March 16, 2018.
  6. ^ Judgment of the First Senate of March 2, 2010 - 1 BvR 256/08 - Rn. (1-345), Federal Constitutional Court , accessed on March 16, 2018.
  7. ↑ Presentation of Rolf Gössner as Deputy for Home Affairs on the website of the left-wing parliamentary group in Bremen ( memento of the original from October 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.linksfraktion-bremen.de
  8. ^ Criminal charges . Letter from the lawyers Schultz & Förster to the Attorney General . February 3, 2014 ( online at ilmr.de [PDF; accessed on March 16, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Peter Mühlbauer: The Office for the Protection of the Constitution stops monitoring civil rights activists. In: heise online . November 18, 2008, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  10. ↑ VG Köln · Judgment of January 20, 2011 · Az. 20 K 2331/08. In: openjur.de . Retrieved March 16, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Justice gives lawyer Dr. Rolf Gössner Law. In: NGO Online . February 3, 2011, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  12. ^ Gössner was wrongly observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for 38 years. In: Der Spiegel (preliminary version from issue 14/2011). April 2, 2011, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  13. ↑ The Office for the Protection of the Constitution observed lawyers for over 30 years, long-term monitoring of lawyers unlawful. Judgment of March 13, 2018, Az. 16 A 906/11. In: Legal Tribune Online . Retrieved March 16, 2018 .
  14. ↑ The Rolf Gössner case: Not an enemy of the constitution. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 4, 2011, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  15. ↑ After more than twelve years in the third round . ( hpd.de [accessed June 13, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Werner Rügemer : Laudation for Rolf Gössner. In: NRhZ-Online . May 23, 2012, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Culture and Peace Prize. villa-ichon.de , accessed on March 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gössner, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen