Thomas Darnstädt

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Thomas Darnstädt (* 1949 in Goslar ) is a German lawyer , journalist and author specializing in police law , civil rights and international law .

Life

Darnstädt was born in 1949 as the son of the writer Helge Darnstädt and the journalist and dramaturge Hans R. Darnstädt. He has two brothers, including the screenwriter Christoph Darnstädt .

Thomas Darnstädt studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and received his doctorate for Dr. jur. ( Danger prevention and precautionary measures: an investigation into the structure and significance of the forecast budget in the law of public safety and order ). He passed the second state examination in 1984. Since then he has worked as an editor for Spiegel , where he headed the German Politics department for several years . As an author, he has published books on subjects such as the police state , miscarriages of justice and the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals .

Darnstädt lives with his family in Hamburg .

Positions

In his 2009 book The Global Police State: Terror Fear, Security Mania and the End of Our Freedoms  , Darnstädt positions himself against the rapid expansion of the global security apparatus. Measures such as anti-terrorism files , eavesdropping , online searches , biometric passport registers and the storage of flight data hit "the limits of the rule of law", every citizen is placed under general suspicion. The fight against terrorism is so badly at the expense of human rights that people end up stand without rights "in the dark of the Middle Ages".

In his 2013 book, The Judge and his victim : When justice is mistaken warns Darnstädt warned that any innocent citizens in a short time could be a convicted felon. The reason for this are systemic errors, for example high pressure on the police and public prosecutor to publicly present a perpetrator. Even some judges are so doggedly in search of the truth that they put the reality out as it suits them. False testimony and confessions are often not recognized as such, and less intelligent suspects in particular tend to use false confessions to get rid of what was felt to be unbearable pressure to be questioned. The fact that these and other findings in psychology are not part of legal training exacerbates the problem of judges overestimating themselves.

To prevent false judgments, Darnstädt proposes, among other things, a modernization of the hearing of witnesses. A complete audio-visual documentation like in Great Britain would remedy the situation that witness statements in the hands of the investigators are rounded and thus made resistant to attacks by the defense.

Fonts (selection)

  • Danger prevention and precautionary measures: an investigation into the structure and significance of the forecast budget in the law of public safety and the like. Order . Frankfurt am Main: Metzner 1983. ISBN 978-3-7875-5310-5 (dissertation)
  • The consensus trap. DVA, Munich 2004; Revised as: Consensus is nonsense. How the republic can be governed again. DTV, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-34278-0 .
  • The global police state. Fear of terrorism, security madness and the end of our freedoms. DVA, Munich 2009; as paperback: Goldmann, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-12999-7 .
  • The judge and his victim. When the judiciary is wrong. Piper, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-05558-1 .
  • Nuremberg. Crimes against humanity in court 1945. Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05684-7 .
  • Classified information Karlsruhe. The internal files of the Federal Constitutional Court. Piper, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-492-05875-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Title of his dissertation, ISBN 978-3787553105 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Thomas Darnstädt  ( 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. on publixphere.net, accessed May 2, 2017@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / publixphere.net  
  3. ↑ Everyone is suspect . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on September 5, 2017]).
  4. ↑ n-tv news television: When the judge is wrong . In: n-tv.de . ( n-tv.de [accessed on September 5, 2017]).
  5. ↑ When the judiciary is wrong . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on September 5, 2017]).
  6. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: Book by Thomas Darnstädt: "Nothing but a bad feeling" - When the judiciary is wrong. August 22, 2013. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Selected: Thomas Darnstädt "The Judge and His Victim": Legal errors - made easy . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on September 5, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Darnstädt, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Goslar