The former head of the CSU and Bavarian Prime Minister Franz-Josef Strauss is said to have left behind his children with 360 million Deutschmarks. This is what the author Wilhelm Schlötterer claimed in a book. The Cologne district court prohibited the book publisher now this statement.
However, the Strauss son has no further claims, the Cologne district court ruled.
Several courts had already banned the publisher from repeating this statement in the past. The book was published ten years ago. In the current trial, the court had to examine new evidence, which the author Schlötterer has submitted in support of his thesis.
Max Strauss had also asked Schlötterer and his publisher for information about the sales figures of the book in order to be able to claim a monetary compensation on the grounds that his personal rights had been violated.
However, the Civil Chamber did not see it that way. For the first time, Max Strauss claimed compensation for more than six years after the publication of the book. In this long period, it is unlikely that the applicant has an "urgent need" for compensation.
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