Verena Wiedemann

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Verena Wiedemann (* 1957 ) is a German lawyer for media law .

Wiedemann studied law . As a Fulbright Scholar in America, she completed her Master of Laws at the University of California, Berkeley . She then worked as a lawyer in Washington, DC She then did her doctorate as a lecturer at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg for Comparative and International Private Law on the future of international telecommunications law . After completing a trainee training in publishing management, she worked at Gruner + Jahr -Zeitschriften-Verlag in Hamburg . The WDR director Friedrich Nowottny won her for the ARD liaison office in Brussels , which she headed from December 1, 1993 to June 30, 2006.

On July 1, 2006, Wiedemann was appointed the first general secretary of ARD based in Berlin . She was appointed for five years. In March 2011 it became known that Wiedemann had brought a lawsuit against her employer for bullying before the labor court in Berlin . The ARD rejected the allegations as "incomprehensible and out of thin air".

In October, Wiedemann withdrew her allegation of bullying and received a severance payment of 200,000 euros.

Individual evidence

  1. Dr. Verena Wiedemann first general secretary of ARD ( memento from July 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. "ARD General Secretary sues against ARD" (report at DWDL.de on March 22, 2011)
  3. ^ Intendants in court (Frankfurter Rundschau of March 22, 2011, p. 36)
  4. http://carta.info/39346/verena-wiedemann-ard-generalsekretaerin/
  5. ARD general secretary complains of bullying
  6. ARD rejects allegations from Verena Wiedemann
  7. http://www.horizont.net/aktuell/haben/pages/protected/Verena-Wiedemann-bekommen-dicke-Abfindung-von-der-ARD_103543.html