Günter Weigand (born 1924) is a self-proclaimed “social lawyer” ('' Sozialanwalt''), economist and
amateur prosecutor
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History
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who became victim of a judicial and
psychiatric scandal
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. He was born in
Olsztyn
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Der Spiegel
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'', n. 52, 1978, p. 60. and the German expert in criminal law
Karl Peters
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Life
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(among others) made it possible, that the Weigand case is known as a miscarriage of justice.
Publications (selection)
* ''Die Berechtigung sittlicher Werturteile in den Sozialwissenschaften.'' Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1960.
* ''Der Rechtsstaat wird uns nicht geschenkt! Lehren aus der Münsterschen Mordaffäre um den Gewalttod des Rechtsanwalts Blomert vom 25.August 1961.'' Selbstverlag, 1979, 132 Seiten,
Secondary literature
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Jürgen Kehrer
Jürgen Kehrer (born 21 January 1956) is a German author. His success led to a substantial change in German crime fiction and brought a new industry to his chosen home town of Münster.
Life
Jürgen Kehrer was born in Essen in the Ruhr regio ...
: ''Schande von Münster: Die Affäre Weigand''. Waxmann 1996.
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Dietmar Klenke
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* Dietmar von Aist, Minnesinger from a baronial family of Upper Austria, documented between 1140 and 1171
*Dietmar Bär (born 1961), German actor
*Dietmar Bartsch ...
: „1.4. Der Blomert-Weigand-Prozess als Imagekatastrophe für Münster.“ In: ''Schwarz - Münster - Paderborn: Ein antikatholisches Klischeebild''. Waxmann 2008. p. 64-67.