As Cornelius Gurlitt formulated his last will, of the 81-year-old man was already seriously ill and was under care. Made his testament in question nevertheless nobody has – until now. A report, which Gurlitt cousins, siblings Uta Werner and Dietrich Gurlitt, have commissioned raises doubts about the mental health of the art dealer’s son.
On the motives of Gurlitt very elderly relatives for this advice can only be speculated. They want to challenge the legacy of “not at the moment”, as her attorney Munich Wolfgang Seybold said on Monday evening at the request of news agency sda. “We close but not completely out.”
The heirs wanted to reassess the situation when the Kunstmuseum Bern had announced its decision – which is expected to be the case on 26 November. If the Kunsthaus reject everything falls Uta Werner and brother Dietrich Gurlitt.
At the Munich Local Court, the competent probate, although the report was before, as a spokeswoman said. Reason to act does not see the court but. “Since currently there is no certificate of inheritance, no examination of the effectiveness of the will takes place.”
The lawyer and psychiatrist Helmut Hausner comes in its opinion on a fairly clear conclusion: “Cornelius Gurlitt suffered in the construction of the will from 09/01/2014 to a mild degree of dementia, a schizoid personality disorder and a delusional adhesion failure, “he writes in the summary of his report, filed with the news agency dpa
His conclusion:. Gurlitt could no longer be a free will been able. However: Hausner met Gurlitt never personally. His judgment is based on documents and interviews with people who knew Gurlitt. In the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reported on Monday.
Gurlitt former supervisor, the Munich prosecutor Christoph Edel, will not comment on the mental state of his former protege. Gurlitt state was being Hausner, the chief physician of the Centre for Psychiatry in Cham in the Upper Palatinate’s view, not only shortly before his death on May 6 this year labile.
In 1962, complained Gurlitt mother in a letter the “frightening paranoia” of her son and asked him directly: “Where’s the origin of your delusions” Especially against Nazis he had and feared his life anxiety, a German, Nazi network would tear his art collection per se
The opinion Hausner sees a direct correlation between the delusions Gurlitt and his will in which he made the Swiss institution for the sole heir of his entire estate, including multi-million dollar art collection. “Gurlitt was against everything German skeptical,” his former supervisor Noble said in early November, the news agency dpa.
The former lawyer of Cornelius Gurlitt, Hannes Hartung, the precious once deprived the mandate, holds the opinion of Hausner wrong. “Here Cornelius Gurlitt to be posthumously put into a madhouse,” he said of the “world”. “Apart from the fact that such an opinion should not be legally sound, I think it is unworthy and disrespectful to the dead.”
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