Tag: Column by Heribert Prantl
Column by Heribert Prantl: The summer was very dry. – Opinion
Rainer Maria Rilke’s autumn poem begins, almost like a prayer, with the line “Lord: it’s time. The summer was very big.” Rilke wrote that in 1902. In 2022 you have…
Column by Heribert Prantl: People must be able to die with dignity – opinion
column by Heribert Prantl To be allowed to die is the last human right. The law must not imprison a man in his terminally ill body; it must not condemn…
Column Heribert Prantl: How wars end – opinion
Of Heribert Prantl Wars are ended in very different ways; but history has recurring patterns. Pattern one is the annihilating victory of a belligerent party. Pattern two is the weariness…
Law and health: abysses
Who is allowed to live? The planned rules in the triage law are a danger for people with disabilities and for the elderly. source site
Situations in life: Poverty is not destiny
Inflation is hitting low-income people in Germany hard. What became of Ludwig Erhard’s promise of “prosperity for all”? A state that does not take care of poor people is socially…
Heribert Prantl on the evaluation report on corona measures – opinion
column by Heribert Prantl The great crested grebe is a water bird that dives away when threatened and stays under water. The great crested grebe among the German authorities is…
Climate protection: The Basic Law has become climate-neutral
The climate decision of the Federal Constitutional Court was radical and epochal. The judges cleared the way for Habeck & Co. months before the traffic light coalition agreement. Lindner &…
Heribert Prantl: The Putin-Z is not a case for criminal law. – Opinion
Must be punished who shows the Z in this country? German criminal law should not fall into the Russian error and punish attitudes – not even those that we find…
Of hate and peace – opinion
column by Heribert Prantl I admire the pacifists. I admire how they manage to endure their impotence. I admire them for not faltering in the face of Putin’s aggression and…
How do you regulate self-determined death? – Opinion
column by Heribert Prantl “And now people die properly. Oh yes.” An ancient colleague who is dear to me said this sentence years ago. I keep thinking about him in…