About Günter Weigand
Lived 1924 – 2003 (aged 78–79). Günter Weigand was a German economist and political economist.
Günter Weigand (24 November 1924 – 2003) was a German self-proclaimed "social lawyer" (Sozialanwalt), economist and amateur prosecutor who became victim of a judicial and psychiatric scandal.
Heinrich Böll and the German expert in criminal law Karl Peters (among others) made it possible, that the Weigand case is known as a miscarriage of justice.
Weigand was born on 24 November 1924 in Allenstein. He died in 2003, likely in Troisdorf.
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 Jürgen Kehrer: Schande von Münster: Die Affäre Weigand. Waxmann 1996. Dietmar Klenke: „1.4. Der Blomert-Weigand-Prozess als Imagekatastrophe für Münster.“ In: Schwarz - Münster - Paderborn: Ein antikatholisches Klischeebild. Waxmann 2008. p. 64-67.
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German lawyer (1924–2003)
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Günter Weigand was born in 1924 in Olsztyn.
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Günter Weigand died on 10 February 2003.
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Günter Weigand was an economist and political economist.
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Günter Weigand was German.
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