Steffen Ufer

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Steffen Ufer (born October 28, 1940 in Chemnitz ) is a German lawyer . He is considered one of the best-known defense lawyers in Germany.

Life

Ufer studied law from 1959 to 1963 at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich. At the end of his legal traineeship , he worked for eight months as an assistant at the European Commission for Human Rights in Strasbourg. He already worked as a trainee lawyer in the law firm of Munich criminal defense attorney Rolf Bossi . From 1970 to 2005, Ufer was a partner in the criminal law firm “Bossi-Ufer-Widmaier”, and later “Bossi-Ufer-Ziegert”. Ufer is a specialist lawyer for criminal law and was a lecturer at the German Lawyers Academy. Even when Rolf Bossi was still a senior partner in the firm , Ufer was already considered to be its real workhorse. While Bossi deliberately and happily served the image of the “star lawyer” through diverse appearances in television and print media, Ufer does not value personal presence in the media, but has good contacts with them, which he also uses in the interests of his clients.

Ufer took on numerous spectacular cases, his clients included, for example, Dieter Zlof , Jürgen Bartsch , Eric Burdon , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Werner Mang , Breno Borges , Günther Kaufmann , Friedrich Jahn and Uli Hoeneß . His process strategy is case-related: For Karl-Heinz Wildmoser , he received a fine of 90 daily rates by way of a so-called "deal" , whereby Wildmoser was not considered to have a criminal record; In the criminal proceedings against Konstantin Wecker, on the other hand, Ufer exhausted the legal process up to the Federal Court of Justice in order to prevent a prison sentence . Even if his working style is considered to be extremely competitive, he avoids personal hostility towards members of the judiciary or fellow lawyers. As a lawyer for joint plaintiffs, such as in the case of Ottfried Fischer , he also represents the interests of victims. In the war crimes trial against the Serbian Duško Tadić , he resigned his mandate as defense counsel when the extent of Tadić's guilt became apparent in the course of the trial.

Ufer is often active as a lawyer in the USA and, out of liberal convictions, is repeatedly committed to the rights of minors and against the death penalty, as in the case of the LaGrand brothers or an 11-year-old Swiss man accused of alleged incest. Out of this constitutional liberal basic attitude, he also campaigned for the FDP at the end of the 1990s .

Ufers law firm consists of eight other lawyers, including his son Florian Ufer and the lecturer at LMU Christoph Knauer . As Of Counsel also the professor at the LMU and volunteer judge at are Bavarian Constitutional Court Stephan Lorenz and the former Berlin justice minister , and BGH and ICJ -Richter Wolfgang Schomburg advisory capacity.

Ufer is an honorary citizen of Takoma Park , Maryland, USA.

Publications

  • Not guilty: justice is not a matter of negotiation . Heyne 2016, ISBN 978-3453201385
  • The "understanding" in criminal proceedings , in Ulrich Ziegert (editor): Fundamentals of criminal defense: Handbook for the training and further education of specialist lawyers , Munich 2000, ISBN 3-415-02594-2
  • Trial from the defender's point of view , in: Konstantin Wecker There is no life without death , Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-462-02817-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffen Ufer, attorney ARD-Mediathek May 16, 2012, accessed on April 22, 2013  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ardmediathek.de  
  2. ↑ Cathrin Kahlweit: A catalyst for large processes. (PDF; 1.6 MB) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. November 4, 1999, accessed April 22, 2013 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ufer, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, criminal defense attorney
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz