Uwe Maeffert

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Uwe Maeffert (born April 28, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German criminal defense attorney and non-fiction author .

Life

Maeffert has been a lawyer in Hamburg since 1974 . He is considered one of the city's most famous criminal defense lawyers. He began to gain his reputation in the 1970s and 1980s when he represented numerous mandates for crimes related to the Assembly Act and mandates from the "left scene". Among other things, he was one of the defenders in the Nuremberg Komm- Trial in 1981, together with Hans-Joachim Ehrig and Eberhard Kempf .

Maeffert initially made a name for himself as a labor lawyer with a trade union orientation, in which he committed himself to continued employment in the event of dismissal without notice until clarification by the labor court. The case of an Opel works council in Bochum , which the group refused to allow onto the site despite a court order and a penalty of DM 500,000, was spectacular . Maeffert was then assigned to the Bremen KB Nord .

He defended in sensational cases, for example the so-called acid barrel killer Lutz Reinstrom , known as Monika Weimar, who convicted Monika Böttcher for the murder of her children , Marianne Bachmeier , who shot the alleged murderer of her daughter in the courtroom, and Thomas Wüppesahl , the former member of the Bundestag and co-founder of the Federal Working Group of Critical Policemen who was convicted of a planned robbery and murder. Maeffert also represented the defendants in the trial of the Holzminden police murder . At the beginning of 2007 he defended the millionaire Ulrich Marseille before the district court in Halle; at the same time he was active as a defense attorney before the local court in Weimar in the so-called Weimar Rauschpilz Trial .

As a “star lawyer”, he has thus attracted considerable media interest. His work is assessed quite differently. Courts, witnesses and occasionally journalists complained of aggressive action, on the other hand Maeffert also received high praise for his persistence.

He worked on books and texts as a co-author. In 1986 he wrote Bruchstellen , which describes the events of one of his spectacular trials in the form of a literary report: the case of two Turks who were accused in 1983 of breach of the peace , dangerous bodily harm and resistance to state power and who were acquitted after a year of negotiations. In 1989, criminal justice followed . He is a member of the Schildower Kreis , which advocates the legalization of drugs . and father of two daughters.

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Sources and individual references

  1. ↑ Star lawyer defends gang boss , Hamburger Morgenpost from July 1, 2010, accessed on January 29, 2015.
  2. ^ A b Gerhard Mauz : Forward comrades, we have to go back . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1982, pp. 52-54 ( Online - Mar. 15, 1982 ).
  3. ↑ a b c Gisela Friedrichsen : In fact at the end . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1997, pp. 82-88 ( Online - Mar. 3, 1997 ).
  4. ↑ a b Sabine Rückert : Tormentors of Justice. In: Die Zeit from January 10, 2001. Online
  5. ↑ a b Ralf Wiegand: A troublemaker and a murderous plan. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 3, 2005. Online .
  6. ↑ Uwe Maeffert: The "Hildesheim police murder" procedure. In: Anwaltsblatt, 2/1997, pp. 84–88. (PDF; 1.7 MB) ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ This case is processed literarily by Andrea Hanna Hünniger : Das Paradies. My youth after the wall. Tropics: Stuttgart 2011.
  8. ↑ Gisela Friedrichsen : time-eating indictment . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1995, p. 34-36 ( Online - Feb. 27, 1995 ).
  9. ↑ Information about the individuals active in the Schildower Kreis. Schildower Kreis , accessed December 10, 2019 .

Web links

  • Sabine Rückert : tormentors of justice. In: Die Zeit from January 10, 2001. Online .
  • Gisela Friedrichsen : Time-consuming indictment . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1995, p. 34–36 ( online - February 27, 1995 , article on the trial of the Holzminden police murder with an overview of Maeffert's spectacular cases).
  • Uwe Maeffert: The "Hildesheim police murder" procedure. In: Anwaltsblatt, 2/1997, pp. 84–88. Online (PDF; 1.7 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Maeffert, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German non-fiction author and defense lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin