Werner Stauffacher (Lawyer)

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Werner Stauffacher (2009)

Werner Stauffacher (born February 7, 1945 in Zurich ; † June 14, 2012 in Stäfa ) was a Swiss lawyer .

Life

Stauffacher grew up in Zurich. At the University of Zurich from 1965 to 1971 he first studied natural sciences , then law . After completing his dissertation , he began working as a freelance lawyer in 1976. Stauffacher was married and the father of seven children.

Proceedings against Stauffacher

Stauffacher was himself involved in procedures and processes several times. In some cases, the proceedings aroused great public interest.

Inheritance dispute

In a legal dispute about the legacy of Hildegard Kirchbach, who died in Basel in 1995, which received much public attention, the Swiss Federal Court declared Stauffacher unworthy of inheritance in 2006. Stauffacher had taken advantage of the relationship of trust that had arisen immorally and did not point out the conflict of interests when she appointed him as her heir. This judgment was voted “worst judgment of the year” by the magazine Plädoyer .

Trienekens bribe scandal

In 2002, Stauffacher was targeted by the Cologne public prosecutor's office as part of an investigation into bribery payments during the construction of the Cologne-Niehl garbage furnace . The company of Hellmut Trienekens , now a subsidiary of RWE , had mandated Stauffacher related to mutual assistance procedures. The aim was supposedly to prevent German authorities from gaining knowledge of black funds and criminal agreements. According to a report in the magazine Der Spiegel, Stauffacher received 10 million German marks for his work. The investigations by the public prosecutor related to suspected money laundering and involvement in bribery of officials and politicians. Stauffacher rejected the allegations. The proceedings were closed in 2005.

False notarization dispute

Another, also very high-profile case against Stauffacher related to the allegation of fraudulent authentication. The accused lawyer had disempowered a client despite the withdrawal of his mandate. In 2001 a book funded by Stauffacher was written on the case. After several trials, the Zurich Higher Court finally acquitted Stauffacher on October 15, 2002 of all allegations. The acquittal became final in December 2002.

Further commitment

Pro Juventute

As the central secretary at the time and delegate of the commission of the Pro Juventute Foundation , he promoted the reconciliation between the Foundation and the Manouches and Yeniche (Swiss term: " Fahrende ") regarding the earlier and controversial activities of the foundation's own aid organization Kinder der Landstrasse .

Russia

Werner Stauffacher supported the economic, political and cultural relations between Russia and Switzerland. In 2004 he founded the Cooperation Council Switzerland / Russia . He financed the publication of two books. In 2005 Stauffacher initiated the Swiss-Russian Journalism Prize. In June 2009 Stauffacher hosted the 11th Congress of the World Association of Russian Press WARP in Lucerne. As part of this congress, a plaque donated by him for Lev Tolstoy was inaugurated. He was also the initiator of the Switzerland-Russia parliamentary friendship group .

Czech Republic

Stauffacher was also the honorary consul of the Czech Republic .

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Execution of will on June 28, 2012. In: District Court Meilen, accessed online in the Zurich Commercial Register on August 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ biography on personal website. ( Memento from August 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Archive version 2008
  3. ^ Andreas Heller: At the vanity fair ( Memento from June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: NZZ Folio . 09/03
  4. ↑ Widow of the industrialist Kurt Kirchbach , who died in 1967 and who sold his works in Düsseldorf to Bohlen Industrie GmbH in 1953
  5. ↑ BGE 132 III 305
  6. ↑ Lawyer as unworthy of inheritance. In: NZZ . March 14, 2006; Dominique Strebel: Inheritance: Lucrative care. In: The Observer . 11/04; Herbert Molderings : Neither a storage find nor the “Helene Anderson Collection”: There was once ... a pioneer collection with masterful photography. In: FAZ . October 27, 2005
  7. ^ Daniela Schwegler: Wrong judgment of the year. In: Plea . 1/07
  8. ↑ Frank Dohmen, Alexander Jung: Corruption, Dirty Daughters. In: Der Spiegel . 13/02
  9. ^ Economy: Werner Stauffacher.  ( 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. In: NZZ am Sonntag . June 12, 2005, on swissdox.ch (PDF; 48 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / stauffacher.com  
  10. ^ A plea for a lawyer. In: NZZ . June 25, 2001
  11. ↑ Thomas Illi : The S ... files , see LitVerz.
  12. ^ Acquittal in the eighth round. ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: NZZ. October 16, 2002, on stauffacher.com (PDF; 85 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stauffacher.com
  13. ^ Acquittal for lawyer Stauffacher final. In: NZZ. December 10, 2002; Bruno Glaus, Karl Lüönd : runner, hire mouth, king. Lawyers at the intersection of law and power. Orell Füssli , 2005
  14. ↑ Chronology ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Aid organization “Children of the Landstrasse” on projuventute.ch @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.projuventute.ch
  15. ↑ 2006 the Russian edition of the book "Swiss Finance Law and International Standards" by Peter Nobel . 2007 the Russian-language collection of scientific articles on the Confederation «Essays on the History of Switzerland» by the Moscow author Igor Petrov.
  16. ↑ Honorary Consuls: Not only men of honor , by Thomas Illi , Der Beobachter 17/00
  17. ^ A Russian medal for Werner Stauffacher , by Marius Huber, Tages-Anzeiger , December 11, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Stauffacher, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2012
Place of death Stäfa