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Professor Dr. Ulrike Guérot Attends Trial of Michael Ballweg

Stuttgart, May 12, 2025 – On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, Professor and public intellectual Dr. Ulrike Guérot will attend the ongoing trial of Michael Ballweg at the Regional Court in Stuttgart. The proceedings are scheduled to continue until October 2025, with two trial days per week – even though the court had previously considered dismissing the case due to its minor significance.

Michael Ballweg was held in pre-trial detention for nine months. He is formally charged with tax evasion. However, the trial is widely regarded as politically motivated, given Ballweg’s role as founder of the “Querdenken” movement and his involvement in organizing major demonstrations for fundamental rights and against COVID-19 measures in Berlin in August 2020.

Professor Guérot seeks to form her own impression of the trial and to witness firsthand what has been described as a unique legal proceeding in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. Extended pre-trial detention, including three months in solitary confinement, is highly unusual in minor tax-related cases.

QUERDENKEN-711 explicitly emphasizes in its manifesto (https://querdenken-711.de/manifest/):

QUERDENKEN stands for personal responsibility, self-determination, love, peace, freedom, joy, and truth. Those who stand for peace stand for non-violence. Those who stand for love reject all forms of extremism, racism, and antisemitism, both implicitly and explicitly.

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