Sebastian Cobler

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Sebastian Cobler (* 1948 in Berlin ; † September 25, 1989 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer and publicist. He became known through his interview with Horst Herold in 1980.

Life

He grew up as the youngest of three children in Berlin-Frohnau in an educated and liberal home and was raised as a Protestant. On the father's side, the family was Jewish and was formerly called Cohn. Cobler studied mathematics in Darmstadt up to the intermediate diploma and then switched to sociology and philosophy, which he completed with a master's degree. He was Asta chairman during the student movement . Then he studied law in Frankfurt. He received his PhD in 1976. 1978/79 he prepared the III. International Russell Tribunal and appeared there as a reviewer.

Cobler became known through a two-day interview with the BKA President Horst Herold in July 1980, in which Herold explained his police work. Herold did not approve the interview that was then submitted to him because the text had been manipulatively shortened and put together. The magazine “ Kursbuch ” therefore decided not to print it. The interview appeared under the heading “Herald gegen alle” in November 1980 in Enzensberger's magazine “ TransAtlantik ”. The Spiegel editor Rudolf Augstein also published parts of the interview. In the following years, Herold successfully brought proceedings against the unauthorized use of the interview. The 400-page transcription of the interview is now stored in the vaults of a Swiss bank after various law firms were broken into several times where the manuscript was suspected.

In 1982 he was admitted to the bar. In the census judgment he represented a plaintiff. He was a defender in the trial against Alexander Schubart , the spokesman for the runway west opponents at Frankfurt Airport, on charges of coercion by constitutional bodies. In 1983/1984 he and his colleague Eberhard Kempf represented Frank Schwalba-Hoth as a lawyer after the latter had splattered US General Williams with blood in protest against American nuclear weapons policy during a reception in the Hessian state parliament. In Stammheim he was the co-defender of Peter-Jürgen Boock and in the Memmingen abortion process he was co-defender of the gynecologist Horst Theissen . Cobler died of leukemia.

Works (selection)

author

  • Law, order and politics in West Germany, Harmondsworth [u. a.] 1978
  • The danger comes from the people, Berlin 1976

Co-author

  • The right to demonstrate, Reinbek near Hamburg 1983.
  • 1984 is different, Göttingen 1982.

Essays

  • The law against the "Auschwitz lie" - comments on a legal political indulgence trade , KJ 18 (1985), p. 159 (PDF; 1.5 MB).
  • Plea for the deletion of §§ 129, 129a StGB - On the revision of the “Anti-Terrorism Laws” , KJ 17 (1984), p. 407 (PDF; 1.1 MB).
  • Catch-as-catch-can in law enforcement? , Der Spiegel of November 4, 1985
  • As with the human senses , Der Spiegel from September 17, 1984
  • Punished as a rubber pig , Der Spiegel of November 30, 1981
  • "You don't defend someone like that !" , Kursbuch 60/1980, p. 97.
  • Fundamental rights terror. In: Kursbuch 56 (June 1979); Abridged reprint in: Horst Meier , Protest-free zones? Variations on civil rights and politics. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2012, pp. 79–87.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Transparent State" , Spiegel house communication from September 12, 1983
  2. ↑ " Commissioner Computer: Horst Herold for his 85th birthday ", heise.de of October 21, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Cobler, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1989
Place of death Frankfurt am Main