TWO MINOR BY THE PARLIAMENTARY GROUP DIE LINKE

With two Minor Interpellations dated 4.4.2013, the Parliamentary Group Die Linke requested clarification from the Federal Government concerning the proceedings within the Contergan Foundation.

The first of the two Minor Interpellations (Printed Paper 17/12998) makes reference to the reply from Andreas Meyer dated 8.3.2013 and the letter from Attorney Karl Schucht, a member of the Management Board for the 11th period of office, dated 22.2.2013 concerning the public hearing on 1.2.2013.

On 11.09.2013, Attorney Karl Schucht stated that his letter dated 22.02.2013 was a personal statement from his side.

For the lawsuit Andreas Meyer ./. RA Karl Schucht it is mainly the first of the two Minor Interpellations and the corresponding replies by the Federal Government that are important.

You can download the first Minor Interpellation here:

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The Federal Government replied on 22 April 2013 as follows:

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The second of the two Minor Interpellations (Printed Paper 17/12999) raised the issue of the possibly well-founded suspicion of arbitrary proceedings in the work of the Contergan Foundation.

You can download the second Minor Interpellation here:

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The Federal Government replied on 22 April 2013 as follows:

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Please refer the statement by Andreas Meyer on 1.2.2013.

Please refer the letter from Attorney Karl Schucht dated 22.2.2013.

Please refer the reply of Andreas Meyer to the Panel of Family, Seniors, Women and Youth from March 8th 2013.

The above-mentioned sequence of events, with the statement by Andreas Meyer on 01.02.2013 and the letter from Attorney Karl Schucht on 22.02.2013, has now caused Mr Meyer to bring a lawsuit against Attorney Schucht before the Bonn Regional Court.

Please refer details of the legal and socio-political significance of the lawsuit.

Please refer our press release dated 5.9.2016 about the filing of the lawsuit.

Please refer our press release dated 13.2.2017 about the court proceedings.

Please refer our press release dated 9.3.2017 about the continuation of the proceedings with no out-of-court settlement.

Please refer our press release dated 08.06.2016 about the not yet final judgement of bonn regional court on 10.5.2017.

Please refer our press release dated 26.09.2017 about our petition for a nation wide anti-corruption law.

Please refer our Invitation dated 19.01.2018 to the court hearing at the Cologne Higher Regional Court on 15.2.2018.

Please refer our press release dated 06.02.2018 about the hearing at the Cologne Higher Regional Court on 15.02.2018.

Please refer our press release dated 4.6.2018 Gruenenthal Cartel against Contergan victims.

Please refer our draft resolution to extend the audit mandate of the law firm GSK Stockmann & Kollegen dated 9.11.2018.

Please also read Section B of the open e-mail letter from Andreas Meyer to the Chairman of the Council of the Contergan Foundation, Christoph Linzbach (BMFSFJ), dated 30.4.2019.

Please refer our press release dated 29.05.2019 Gruenenthal’s man from the Family Affairs Ministry.