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Ulrike Dörrie of
SLB Law, Munich,
Germany introduces us
to Renate Künast
Renate Künast
Hateposts - Victory in the Battle of Right of Personality vs. Freedom of Expression
Renate Elly Künast is a German politician and lawyer. She has been a member of
the German Parliament (Bundestag) since 2002. She was Federal Minister of Food,
Agriculture and Consumer Protection from 2002 to 2005 and Chair of her party’s
parliamentary group „Bündnis 90/Die Grünen“ in the parliament from 2005 to
2013. From 2014 to January 2018, she was Chair of the parliament’s Legal Affairs
Committee.
In the political debate on how to deal with and combat false comments, so-called
fake news, especially in social networks such as Facebook, Künast was the first to
file a criminal complaint because of a false comment and continued to fight for
the protection of personality rights in the internet with legal means.
Copyright Laurence Chaperon
The Federal Constitutional Court, in a decision published at the beginning of
February 2022, has overturned the decisions of the Berlin Regional Court and
the Berlin Appelate Court (Kammergericht), insofar as they had been to Künast’s
disadvantage, and referred the case back to the Kammergericht for a new
decision. Az. 1 BvR 1073/20