Who owns the Guelph Treasure?
In the dispute over the legendary Welfenschatz the heir of Jewish art dealer Germany have sued in a US court. They accuse the Federal Republic prior to issue non-millionaire medieval church treasure, although it constitutes Nazi-looted art.
The Boston law Nicholas M. O’Donnell told Deutsche Presse-Agentur in Berlin, he had filed the lawsuit in federal court in the District of Columbia US. With complained was the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, in whose care are the gold relics. The plaintiffs estimate the value of 260 million euros.
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“The refusal of the German government to recognize the losses of the victims, although their lives, but not were able to save their livelihood and property, is in stark contrast to Germany’s historical commitment, “said the lawyer.
Culture Minister Monika Grütters (CDU) reacted calmly. “We are no new facts to the case known,” she said upon request. Continues to apply for the federal government, the so-called Limbach Commission recommendation, which have seen no evidence of Nazi-looted art in Guelph Treasure.
Estimation of Limbach Commission
In the application, it is said, however, the then owner of the Guelph Treasure, four Jewish art dealer would have to sell for a third of its actual value, the collection under pressure from the Nazis. The transaction was therefore unlawful and void.
“If Germany were to say something else, it would still 2015 Goering’s looting expressly approve” it says in the lawsuit. It was also made available at a short notice convened press conference in Berlin on Tuesday.
© dpa The Boston law Nicholas M. O’Donnell (right) and the lawyer Markus H. Marburger Stötzel at today’s press conference in Berlin.
The Boston law Nicholas M. O’Donnell (right) and the lawyer Markus H. Marburger Stötzel at today’s press conference in Berlin.
The so-called Limbach Commission, however, had in 2014 seen no evidence of the suspected Nazi-looted art. The arbitration panel headed by the former Federal Constitutional Court President Jutta Limbach said the treasure therefore – in a non-binding decision, however – the Prussia Foundation
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The Foundation President Hermann Parzinger said on Tuesday “surprised” about the American action. It was the express wish of the heirs to call the Limbach Commission. “I expect that the results of our many years of scientific research, a court in the United States, it should be at all responsible, able to convince.”
The rightful owner of the treasure
The plaintiffs – Alan Philipp (London) and Gerald Stiebel (United States) – had then called with the Panel. In its statement now they call this method, however, as a “sham trial”. You have 2014, the same discrimination learn how their relatives during the Nazi period.
According to the lawyer, Markus H. Marburger Stötzel, who represents the case together with O’Donnell’s office, from the file clearly show that the former art dealer was the rightful owner of the treasure. You had purchased it in 1929 for 7.5 million Reichsmarks of noble house of Welf.
The applicants are a grandson and a great-nephew of the former seller. “Our clients still represent all operators, whether family members of former owners claim to have the Guelph Treasure” Stötzel said. They would have been forced to sue in US courts because the German civil law still does not offer adequate handle for redress of Nazi injustice.
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