Star lawyer Gerhard Strate has often looked deep into the soul of society in his trials.
He defended the big neighborhood Burim Osmani, the terrorist Mounir al Motassadeq, the entrepreneur Alexander Falk.
After 16 years in prison, he took a client who had been convicted of murder and child molestation out of prison through retrial, and obtained an acquittal in the retrial.
Strate litigated Gustl Mollath from the Bavarian forced psychiatry and brought the Hamburg public prosecutor through his complaint to investigate the former management staff of HSH Nordbank.
He is a man for difficult cases and wants to enforce the law and the liberal rule of law, Strate emphasizes again and again.
However, the development in the Corona crisis sobered him: