The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) is negotiating today about a million dollar compensation for the widow of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl after a controversial book publication.
As the sole heir, Maike Kohl-Richter, like her husband, who died in 2017, is demanding at least five million euros plus interest from Kohl's ghostwriter and former confidante Heribert Schwan.
Karlsruhe - The journalist and historian was supposed to write Kohl's memoir and spoke for hundreds of hours with the former CDU boss.
But after three of the four planned volumes it broke.
In 2014 the author published the bestseller “Legacy: The Kohl Protocols” on his own initiative, in which he quoted Kohl with derogatory judgments about politicians and social figures.
Shortly before his death, Kohl won the highest compensation in German legal history before the Cologne district court - one million euros for violating general personal rights.
After he died, however, the Cologne Higher Regional Court ruled that the right to this monetary compensation was not hereditary.
Kohl-Richter is now taking action against this before the Federal Court of Justice.
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It remains to be seen whether the BGH will pass a judgment on Monday.
(Ref .: VI ZR 248/18 and VI ZR 258/18) dpa
