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Torsten Wöhlert, Berlin State Secretary for Culture
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The Berlin district court alleges Berlin's State Secretary for Culture Torsten Wöhlert (left) to have told the House of Representatives the untruth.
It is about negotiations between the Hohenzollerns and the federal government, Berlin and Brandenburg about compensation for expropriated real estate and the claim to several thousand works of art.
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In the summer, Wöhlert replied to a parliamentary question that the Hohenzollern had demanded "institutionally anchored rights to participate in the presentation of the history of the 'House of Hohenzollern' in the institutions involved in the settlement talks".
Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia denies this and sued the "Frankfurter Allgemeine" when this quoted Wöhlert's statement.
For the time being, the court agreed with him.
Wöhlert, however, sticks to his presentation.
The controversial demand was made "in the course" of the negotiations before July 2019.
The "FAZ" wants to appeal.
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