Wolfgang Buddenberg

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Wolfgang Buddenberg (born November 13, 1911 in Dortmund ; † October 14, 1997 ) was a German lawyer and judge . In 1972, RAF terrorists tried to assassinate him by bombing him.

Career

During his studies in 1931 he became a member of the Franconia Freiburg fraternity . Buddenberg passed the legal state exams in 1935 and 1939. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP . From 1940 worked as a court assessor. In 1943 he was appointed district judge. In the Federal Republic of Germany he was appointed district judge in 1950 and in 1958 a senior judge in Hamm . Since 1955 Buddenberg was investigating and investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice for the district of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was responsible for the arrest warrants and the search and seizure orders in the Spiegel affair in 1962. From 1970 he was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice . As an investigating judge in the matter of RAF terrorism, he signed most of the arrest warrants, search and seizure orders. In May 1972 Buddenberg's wife Gerta was seriously injured by a booby trap in Buddenberg's VW 1300 L car . The RAF's "Manfred Grashof Command" claimed responsibility for this. Wolfgang Buddenberg retired in 1978.

literature

  • “Appointments at the Federal Court of Justice” , Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government 1970 (No. 45), p. 432.
  • Karlmann Geiß (ua) (Ed.): 50 years of the Federal Court of Justice. Festschrift on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Federal Court of Justice, the Federal Prosecutor's Office and the legal profession at the Federal Court of Justice. Heymann, Cologne et al. 2000, ISBN 3-452-24597-7 , p. 815.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burschenschafter Stammrolle 1991. P. 106.
  2. ↑ a b Stupidities of the State , Der Spiegel, October 21, 2002.
personal data
SURNAME Buddenberg, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and judge
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1997